Environment / StudentNation / As climate change leads to record rainfalls, the city’s 120-year-old subway system is more vulnerable to flooding than ever. Ilana Cohen This story was produced for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Melissa is a writer based in Brooklyn. New York’s Metrocard is about to join the subway token as a transit relic from the past.

Subway systems around the world are struggling to cope with flooding as the planet warms. Every day, thousands of people walk up these two yellow steps, never knowing they are treading on a key tool ...

This is what rain can do in New York City. In July, Jessica Louise Dye was on the subway when she recorded a video of a “cascading wall of water coming at us.” Scenes like these are becoming more and ...