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Understanding Infrastructure Susceptibility to Storm and Climate-Related Hazards and Effective Investments

Historical Timelines of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Policy in New Jersey: 2026 Update

Current and Future Coastal Flood Inundation of Roadways in New Jersey

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Boyd Park submerged by Raritan River flood after Tropical Storm Ida, New Brunswick NJ, courtesy Rutgers Today

New Jersey’s Middlesex County sues big oil over escalating climate impacts

DANA DRUGMAND / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS

Beach erosion Brigantine NJ after September 29 noreaster

Nor’easter scoured Jersey and Delaware beaches, causing erosion and flooding

SOPHIA SCHMIDT and SUSAN PHILLIPS / WHYY

NOAA Satellite image of Nor'easter Sep 27 2026

Powerful nor’easter floods Northeast, leaves over 130,000 without power as high tides threaten coast

LEAH WILLINGHAM and JOHN SEEWER / AP / PBS

Offshore wind turbine

Inside the $1.4B taxpayer-backed buyout to kill N.J. offshore wind projects

JELANI GIBSON / NJ.COM

Rutgers Marine Field Station

NJ coast faces rising seas as scientists track signs of a changing climate

TED GREENBERG / NBC 10

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Climate Action

Post-it Notes, Climate Resilience Initiative

Rutgers department co-launches educator-community climate resilience initiative

SEBS and NJAES NEWSROOM

Living Shoreline

A coastal defense that becomes stronger is showing early success

KITTA MacPHERSON / RUTGERS TODAY

Policy

Boyd Park submerged by Raritan River flood after Tropical Storm Ida, New Brunswick NJ, courtesy Rutgers Today

New Jersey’s Middlesex County sues big oil over escalating climate impacts

DANA DRUGMAND / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS

Salem Nuclear Power Plant, Salem County, NJ

Energy-reform bills on desk of governor who ran on power needs

COLLEEN O’DEA / NJ SPOTLIGHT

Climate Impacts

Beach erosion Brigantine NJ after September 29 noreaster

Nor’easter scoured Jersey and Delaware beaches, causing erosion and flooding

SOPHIA SCHMIDT and SUSAN PHILLIPS / WHYY

Environmental Justice

Port Newark

The fight over New Jersey’s tough environmental justice law is now in the courts

EMILIE LOUNSBERRY / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS

Energy

Offshore wind turbine

Inside the $1.4B taxpayer-backed buyout to kill N.J. offshore wind projects

JELANI GIBSON / NJ.COM

Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program

16 Agrivoltaic Projects on Local Farms Move Forward in New Jersey

CLEAN TECHNICA

Offshore wind construction

Offshore wind will struggle long after Trump’s attacks

AJANI STELLA / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS

Coast & Ocean

Beach erosion Brigantine NJ after September 29 noreaster

Nor’easter scoured Jersey and Delaware beaches, causing erosion and flooding

SOPHIA SCHMIDT and SUSAN PHILLIPS / WHYY

Natural Resources

Coastal wetland near Wildwood NJ

Baby sharks grow up in New Jersey’s back bays. Climate change could threaten the nurseries

SUSAN PHILLIPS/WHYY

Food & Farming

Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program

16 Agrivoltaic Projects on Local Farms Move Forward in New Jersey

CLEAN TECHNICA

Health

Wildfire smoke map

Wildfire smoke spreads across the Northeast as temperatures spike

JUDSON JONES and MARK WALKER / NEW YORK TIMES

Global Climate

Top stories from around the world

A global view of the South Pacific Ocean showing a red area around the Equator indicating higher-than-normal sea surfaces on June 8, 2026, a few days before El Niño was declared.

World’s oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows

MARK POYNTING / BBC

Firetruck and cars in floodwater, photo by Matt Drewes

The weather is getting wilder, and some see a dire signal in the data

DAVID GELLES / NEW YORK TIMES

Tropical group of islands in Ang Thong National Marine Park, Thailand

Sea levels are already higher than many scientists think, new study shows

SACHI KITAJIMA MULKEY and MIRA ROJANASAKUL / NEW YORK TIMES

Research vessel in Antarctica

Will melting glaciers slow climate change? A prevailing theory is on shaky ground

GREG BRUNO / RUTGERS TODAY

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