Eric Holthaus:

New York City -- and every other coastal city on the planet -- may only have a few more decades of habitability left.

John Schwartz:

People within sight of any coast want a wall to call their own.

New York Times:

An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of land in the United States that was destroyed by wildfires last year. It is 3.6 million acres, not 3.6 billion.

(For reference, 3.6 billion acres is 5.625 million square miles, which corresponds to a square land area 2371 miles on each side. The total land area of the United States is 3.5 million square miles.)