Sunny-day flooding may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s becoming common in coastal cities like Miami, Charleston, Norfolk and Boston. It happens when tides reach up to 2 feet above average levels and spill into streets or bubble up from storm drains. Sea level rise, driven by climate change, is making the problem worse.

Some of these cities are considering spending billions of dollars on seawalls to hold back the tides and also protect cities from surging water during storms, but coastal scientist Gary Griggs of the University of California Santa Cruz sees this as a temporary solution at best. In his view, cities should be thinking about a bigger question: when and how to move back from the water’s edge.

This week we also liked articles about the debate over “gain-of-function” scientific research, reducing food waste by using normally cast-off ingredients and how gay neighborhoods applied the lessons of the HIV/AIDS crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For Pride Month we’ve put together a series of email newsletters on transgender young people. The four emails, delivered over about a week, recap a series of articles written by leading academics exploring the history, medical care and conflicts, such as youth sports, precipitated by the rising visibility of transgender teens in society. You can sign up for the newsletters here or click the button below.