USA: Hurricane Sandy 2012

When Superstorm Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012, it pushed 13 feet of storm surge into New York City’s harbor, sweeping across the Brooklyn and Queens waterfronts and wiping entire neighborhoods off the map in Staten Island.

Hurricane Sandy hit New York city in October 2012, killing more than 40 people and causing $19 billion in damage. In this Q&A series , Columbia University researchers asked people who occupied important public positions to look back, and forward.

Based on a decade of data from Hurricane Sandy, two New York City planners explore the inequities of disaster mitigation and recovery — and what needs to change to prevent climate gentrification.

New research from a longitudinal study shows children who were exposed to the disaster in the womb have higher rates of developmental psychopathology in a sex-specific manner.

The research team ran an large-area surveys of firms affected by Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Harvey and found that for every dollar spent on resilience, firms avoided an average of $4.57 in business interruption losses.

A new analysis of the economic impacts of Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy could help improve climate resilience planning for cities anticipating severe weather events going forward.

Climate challenges disproportionately impact minority and lower-income populations. Members of those communities often can’t relocate after they're hit by such disasters.

Sea level rise caused by carbon emissions accounted for approximately 13% ($8.1 billion) of the $62.7 billion in losses incurred from Hurricane Sandy.

Kimberly White Smalls needed her coastal home rebuilt, but like other Black residents of New York’s Far Rockaway neighborhood, she was moved instead.

An artificial oyster reef in upper Manhattan is part of the ongoing effort to use “green” infrastructure to mitigate rising sea levels and increased flood risks.