Climate Resilience

The City of Bridgeport broke ground on a controversial $129 million new high school building located in a Long Island Sound floodplain.

Local officials highlight progress in climate resiliency ten years after Superstorm Sandy.

Connecticut farmers joined representatives from the state Department of Agriculture in Bridgeport to help the New Connecticut Farmers Alliance to unveil a five-pillar platform to fight climate change under what is called the “Future of Farming CT” program.

Climate change is causing anxiety in young people around the world. In New England, youth activists respond with collective action around food sustainability.

Governor Ned Lamont launched the GreenerGov CT initiative three years ago with a focus on making state buildings and facilities more eco-friendly. Still, he said residents can do their part by buying electric vehicles and reducing air conditioner use this summer.

More than 100 volunteers hand-planted 20,000 stems of beach grass along an 800-foot stretch of Lobsterville Beach last week. By using this all-natural defense against erosion, the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe hopes to protect its homelands on Martha’s Vineyard from the impacts of climate change.

As capacity shortages in slaughterhouses complicate business for livestock farmers, two specialty sausage makers are starting their own animal processing facility.

As states weigh trash-to-energy facilities, neighborhoods in Long Island and Brooklyn, New York, have learned from each other to fight for environmental justice with solutions to a growing organic waste management problem. The strategy in New Haven, Connecticut, is reducing trash that ends up in landfills and incinerators.

Researchers from Stony Brook University are using the same technique used in the arctic to monitor shorebirds on Long Island’s coastline.

Fisheries across the East Coast are feeling the effects of shifts in fish distribution, abundance, and productivity.