Press
For press inquiries or to arrange an interview with a member of the Urban Systems Lab, contact Associate Director Chris Kennedy.
September 8, 2025
July 28, 2025
PNAS publishes new special feature: “Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Sustainability” - ASU News
July 22, 2025
Cary scientists featured in PNAS Special Feature: “Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Sustainability” - Cary Institute News
July 8, 2025
Why Texas’ floods are a warning for the rest of the country - POLITICO
January 27, 2025
ASU event to highlight importance of urban climate research - ASU News
September 18, 2024
Scientists invite help as they craft big nature assessment - GreenWire | Energy & Environmental Policy News by POLITICO
April 22, 2024
A Nature Imperative on Earth Day - Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Blog, The White House
Authors Selected for the First National Nature Assessment - USGCRP Announcements
April 19, 2024
A Proclamation on National Park Week, 2024 - Briefing Room, The White House
April 15, 2024
How New York City Will Weather the Climate Storm: New Climate Report Explores Vulnerabilities and Resilient Solutions - New School Press Release
March 7, 2024
U.S. Global Change Research Program Announces First National Nature Assessment Chapter Leadership - USGCRP Announcements
October 11, 2023
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence To Raise the Urban ‘Climate IQ’ - Urban Matters
October 3, 2023
NYC's broken flood mitigation strategy comes into focus at a critical time- Archinet
September 30, 2023
How do you prepare a city like New York for major floods? - Vox
September 19, 2023
$US5m grant to fund development of AI-driven climate risk intelligence tool - University of Melbourne
September 15, 2023
Melbourne startup Climasens bags $5 million Google.org grant for AI-driven climate risk tool - SmartCompany
AI-Driven Climate Risk Evaluation Tool Developed by Climasens and Urban Systems Lab - Clayton County Register
September 7, 2023
Exploring the urban ecosystem: A dialogue with Dr. Timon McPhearson on past, present, and future trends - Yale Environment Review
August 31, 2023
The New School’s Urban Systems Lab Launches Ocellus XR App for Visualizing Climate Risk in New York City - New School News
July 26, 2023
Many Milwaukeeans live in a heat island, and 'we can't air condition our way out of this' - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 1, 2023
Ron Johnson said climate change could be good for Wisconsin. Experts disagree. - Milwaukee Sentinal Journal
February 10, 2023
New York City Buildings Largely Missing Green Roof Mandate - ALM Globest
FebrUary 6, 2023
Many plans for green infrastructure risk leaving vulnerable people out - Science News
February 1, 2023
New tree plantings in NYC fall to lowest level in 15 years - Gothamist
December 28, 2022
Interactive map pinpoints Milwaukee areas most at risk for flooding, related health risks - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
December 1, 2022
To Be Equitable, US Urban Green Infrastructure Planning Must Transform - Cary Institute
November 3, 2022
Baseline Analysis of Green Roof Distribution in New York City Published in Peer-Reviewed Journal, Ecology & Society - The Nature Conservancy of New York
October 27, 2022
New School Professor Timon McPhearson Part of Two Research Teams Honored with the 2022 Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity - The New School News
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Readout: OSTP, CEQ, and CPO Host Roundtables on Nature-based Solutions - The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
September 19, 2022
Trapped: Yonkers residents seek refuge from dangerous urban heat islands - Lohud
September 8, 2022
The NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice selects interdisciplinary research team co-led by The New School’s Urban Systems Lab to study climate vulnerability, impact and adaptation in New York City - NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice
August 10, 2022
Daniel Sauter, Claudia Tomateo and Joe Steele receives 2022 Independent Projects Grant - The Architecture League of New York
July 19, 2022
We’ve Surrendered the Subway to the Flood - Curbed & New York Magazine
JUNE 30, 2022
Award-Winning Map Shows Water-Related Environmental Justice Issues in New Jersey - New Jersey Future Blog
JUNE 22, 2022
Can Cities Survive Excess Heath? - Forbes
June 18, 2022
Black People Are More Likely To Die From Heat Stress Than White People In New York City, Report Says - The Seattle Medium
May 3, 2022
Shoring up Coastlines and Communities with Green Infrastructure - Grist
April 5, 2022
A Place for Fearless Progress featuring interviews with USL’s Timon McPhearson - The New School
March 16, 2022
How Green Spaces Protect City Residents From Climate Change - lx/NBC
February 22, 2022
Environmental justice and green infrastructure solutions with Urban Systems Lab - Amazon’s Fix This! Podcast
JANUARY 14, 2022
Researchers Propose New Definition For ‘Green Infrastructure’ - Water Environment Federation
January 6, 2022
Toward a more inclusive definition of green infrastructure - The Partnership for Water Sustainability
December 20, 2021
Above New York, a Giant Green Roof Tries to Reduce Carbon Footprint - Voice of America News
december 7, 2021
How Tree Planting can Seed Climate Resilience in Communities of Color - Energy News Network
November 19, 2021
The Affordable Housing Crisis Meets the Climate Crisis in New York - WNYC Radio Marketplace
October 19, 2021
New York City’s Subway System isn’t Ready for a Storm-filled Future - Popular Science
October 13, 2021
NYC Funded a Pilot to Make Basement Apartments Safer, But Then It Went Off Track - Next City
September 30, 2021
#47: Environmental Justice and Green Infrastructure Solutions with Urban Systems Lab - Fix This Podcast
september 3, 2021
How Ida Dodged NYC’s Flood Defenses - MIT Technology Review
September 2, 2021
New York’s Sewage System can’t Handle Extreme Weather - Crain’s New York Business
August 23, 2021
Heat Kills. This Underfunded Program Could Help - E&E News Greenwire
August 20, 2021
Why an East Harlem Street is 31 Degrees Hotter than Central Park West - New York Times
august 5, 2021
New Flood Maps are Coming. They won’t Look Pretty. - Spectrum News NY1
August 3, 2021
Green Infrastructure: Diversity in Perspectives and Applications - Future Cities Podcast
May 21, 2021
Feburary 23, 2021
Transforming Urban Systems: Toward Sustainability - American Association for the Advancement of Science Eureka Alert
December 9, 2020
September 4, 2020
NYC’s Trees: A Natural Defense Against Heat, But Not Equally Shared - Science Friday
September 2020
Public Transportation in Crisis - AIA Oculus Magazine
June 30, 2020
Injustice by Design: Confronting the Embedded Racism of America’s Cities - The Hill
june 29, 2020
Coronavirus and Extreme Heat Are ‘on a Collision Course’ as NYC Summer Begins - Curbed New York
June 25, 2020
Revel in the Grubby Wilderness: How to Spot Nature from Lockdown - The Guardian
May 29, 2020
NYC Parks Foresee Financial Losses at a Time when We Need Them the Most - Curbed New York
April 30, 2020
April 29, 2020
Making Science Actionable - Urban Omnibus
march 30, 2020
Green Roof Ecology – “In Conversation” with Timon McPhearson and Cecilia de Corral - The New School Collaboratory
march 11, 2020
Up on the Roof - Urban Omnibus
February 11, 2020
222 Scientists say Cascading Crises are the Biggest Threat to the Well-being of Future Generations - The Conversation
February 7, 2020
Climate Change Could Spark 'Global Systemic Crisis', Scientists Warn - Reuters
February 6, 2020
Humanity Under Threat from Perfect Storm of Crises – Study - The Guardian
January 7, 2020
ASU Ecologist Launches International effort to Improve Urban Resilience - Arizona State University News
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Urban Systems Lab Recieves Three Major Grants That Will Expand Research Opportunities for Graduate Students - The New School News
November 13, 2019
USL Co-Leads the Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene - NATURA Project
New network on nature-based solutions for cities - Stockholm Resilience Centre
November 12, 2019
Championing cities for the climate - Stockholm Resilience Centre
November 5, 2019
McPhearson brings climate warnings, scientific progress to Elon - Today at Elon
Finding solutions: Timon McPhearson addresses Elon - Elon News Network
September 21, 2019
New York’s Original Teen-Age Climate Striker Welcomes a Global Movement - The New Yorker Magazine
may 29, 2019
Using nature to adapt to climate change - American Institute of Biological Sciences
May 2, 2019
Warning: Climate change can harm your health - Science News Explores
april 22, 2019
Professor Timon McPhearson Wins Two 2019 Ecological Society of America Awards - The New School News
February 22, 2019
Green Roof Ecology Students Design Projects for NYC Urban Rooftops - The New School News
February 14, 2019
The orchid whispers: Rare blooms find an urban perch - The Christian Science Monitor
January 20, 2019
Context is key - Stockholm Resilience Centre
january 11, 2019
New Direction for Applying Urban Nature-Based Solutions - Stanford Nature Capital Project
August 27, 2015
Mayor de Blasio, Lower Manhattan Leaders Announce New $100 Million City Commitment to Coastal Resiliency - City of New York Press
August 19, 2015
An Urban Ecologist Confronts Climate Change - The New School News
August 18, 2015
New Nine-City Resilience Network Seeks “Safe-to-Fail” Answers - Next City
August 1, 2015
Researchers confront weather extremes through infrastructure resiliency - Florida International University News
July 21, 2015
Resilient cities: Changing the way we think about urban infrastructure - Arizona State University News
April 23, 2015
The Rat Paths of New York - The New York Times Magazine
April 8, 2015
A Dissection of the New School Science Lab Open House - The New School Free Press
February 17, 2015
Green Infrastructure saving major cities water, money, and time - Digital Journal
2015
2015’s Most & Least Eco-Friendly States - WalletHub
September 11, 2014
Where the Wild Things Are: Urban Ecology and the Changing Landscape of New York City - Columbia Spectator
June 17, 2014
“Resilience” gains strength as urban planning tool — CitiScope
October 18, 2013
Resilience Lessons From Unexpected Places - The Kresge Foundation
August 23, 2012
Turning Vacant Lots from Eyesore to Opportunity - Planetizen
December 21, 2011
The chef’s art: A new movement is turning meals and hospitality into a new art medium - The CS Monitor
October 17, 2011
New School Students Plant 7,000 Trees - The New School Press
From Construction Dump to Wilderness - The Urban Nature Files Press
An Urban Forest in the Making - The Urban Nature Files Press
July 18, 2011
Green for Green: ACIR Focuses First Year on Sustainability - The New School News
November 9, 2009
Climate Activists the Hit Streets - The Nation