Been working on this story for months. Excited to share with you all. Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? /magazine/2026/04/13/can-sponge-cities-save-us-from-the-coming-floods
We spent the night counting and tagging New York City’s longstanding visitors, horseshoe crabs, on Plumb Beach in Queens. This is their mating season, and at high tide with a full (strawberry) moon you can see thousands of them on the shore. It’s an extraordinary experience. Get there tonight if you can.