Mansfield was chosen because it’s a flood risk, but also because, like Rotterdam, its soil retains water. Similar results will, admits Boucher, “be harder to achieve” in towns built on clay ...

Kathy Hochul on Thursday, Dec. 26, created a “Climate Superfund” requiring large fossil fuel companies to pay for critical projects aimed at protecting residents from severe weather impacts like ...

On the Benthemsquare in Rotterdam, Dutch landscape architecture firm De Urbanisten ... To help people understand what will flood or not, everything that can flood is painted in shades of blue. In ...

Some parts of the city are even 15 feet below sea level. According to The New York Times, 90% of the city of Rotterdam is below sea level. As ocean levels rise, the risk of flooding increases.