Municipal

As a former Miami reporter, I have never seen anything like this. I am stunned by the latest South Florida GOP act of sabotage.
Has the Cuban dictatorship moved to Miami as city leaders flip the government in the Sunshine State on its head, as leaders' thirst for power turns into a mouse?

This is a stark yet increasingly undeniable picture of the strain on our national power grid. This confluence of climate change, aging infrastructure, and rising demand, especially from AI and other high-energy technologies, poses a real and present danger.

City Island, a unique Bronx enclave, is known for its quaint, seaside town atmosphere and maritime history. While not a hidden "secret" in the traditional sense, its charm lies in its escape from the typical NYC experience. It feels like a New England fishing village with tree-lined streets, seafood restaurants, and a relaxed pace.

The USA is millions of housing units short of meeting the needs of Americans at a reasonable price they can afford to pay.

This can put a lot of pressure on prices, but supply and demand dynamics may not look the same in each city—or each snapshot in time, for that matter.

Land subsidence is a slow-onset hazard with significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts globally. Often viewed primarily as a coastal issue linked to relative sea-level rise, subsidence also poses serious threats to inland urban centers, heightening flood risks, damaging infrastructure, and disrupting transportation networks. Despite its widespread effects, detailed spatial data capturing fine-scale variations in subsidence rates remain limited, impeding accurate infrastructure risk assessments.

To address this gap, they utilize space geodetic measurements from 2015 to 2021 to generate high-resolution subsidence maps for the 28 most populous U.S. cities. Our analysis reveals that at least 20 percent of the urban area is experiencing subsidence, predominantly driven by groundwater extraction. This phenomenon currently affects an estimated 34 million people. Furthermore, over 29,000 buildings are in zones classified as high or very high damage risk, underscoring the urgent need for mitigation and adaptation strategies.

These data are critical for informing targeted policies to enhance the resilience of urban infrastructure to this complex, slow-moving hazard.