Press
For press inquiries or to arrange an interview with a member of the Urban Systems Lab, contact Assistant Director Valérie Lechêne or Merrie Snead, Senior Manager in Communications and Community Affairs at The New School.
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