by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Mar 2, 2022 | Fall/Winter22
Moving On Up Rising Water in Warren Prompts Redevelopment and Relocation Plans By Annie Sherman Floodwaters inundate Market Street during a king tide. Photograph by Janet Freedman The second smallest town in the smallest state in the country has a big problem: water....
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Jun 19, 2020 | Spring 2020
Architecture for the Birds, the Bees, and the Rising Seas INSTALLATION IN TOUISSET REFUGE PROVIDES ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, ECOLOGICAL HABITAT By Monica Allard Cox | Photographs by Dana Smith Architect and landscape designer Leonard Yui created “ecological...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 13, 2019 | Fall 2019
A Rising Challenge By Ellen Liberman Photographs by Cate Brown Rhode Island Grapples with the Policy and Practice of Coastal Resiliency With just a few weeks to go, the town of Narragansett was racing to meet a deadline. On March 1, a new state law would radically...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 13, 2019 | Fall 2019
Dispatches from the New American Shore by Monica Allard Cox From the 18th century on, everyone from farmers to city leaders to railroad barons filled in millions of acres of wetlands across the U.S., often with federal government support. In 1977, President...
by Rhode Island Sea Grant | Dec 12, 2019 | Fall 2019
Flushing into the Flood Sea Level Rise and Storms Are Changing how Communities Deal with Wastewater By Sue KennedyPhotographs by Jesse Burke Over a hundred years ago, locating the state’s first sewage treatment plant at Providence’s Fields Point, just a few...
