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Ecosystems Emerge as Crucial Infrastructure for Climate Resilience Across the U.S.

Ecosystems Emerge as Crucial Infrastructure for Climate Resilience Across the U.S.

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 Across the United States this week, ecosystem health is in the spotlight as courts, states, and cities respond to escalating climate and biodiversity pressures. The American Society of Landscape Architects news site The Dirt reports that a federal judge blocked the Federal Emergency Management Agency from canceling the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, preserving 4.5 billion dollars in grants that support wetlands restoration, green infrastructure, and other nature based defenses expected to prevent an estimated 150 billion dollars in disaster damages over two decades. In New York City, 6 Sqft describes how a 68 million dollar investment will convert parts of Prospect Park in Brooklyn into the boroughs first bluebelt, a network of ponds, restored shorelines, and rain gardens designed to manage stormwater while improving aquatic and bird habitat.

At the state level, a new Pew Charitable Trusts analysis highlights how 11 states stepped up on disaster resilience in 2025 with clear ecosystem benefits. Hawaii created a green tourism tax expected to raise 100 million dollars annually for firebreaks, erosion control, and watershed protection on vulnerable islands. New Jersey updated land use and development standards to steer new building away from high risk coastal and riverine areas, explicitly aiming to protect both communities and nearby wetlands and dunes. Wisconsin renewed funding for a pre disaster flood resilience grant program that helps reconnect eroded streams to their floodplains and restore wetlands, using natural hydrology to reduce flood risk. Rhode Island established the Resilient Rhody Infrastructure Fund to finance stormwater mitigation, coastal erosion control, and new urban green spaces that cool cities and provide habitat corridors.

Nationally, the United Nations Environment Programme released its Global Environment Outlook, described by the Associated Press as the most comprehensive global assessment of climate change, pollution, biodiversity, and land loss ever undertaken. The report warns that over one million plant and animal species face extinction and stresses that climate change, land degradation, and biodiversity loss are tightly linked, calling for integrated solutions such as regenerative agriculture, pollution controls, and large scale ecosystem restoration. The Dirt notes that the report also quantifies the enormous upside of action, estimating that climate action alone could generate tens of trillions of dollars in annual benefits by the end of the century.

Together these developments reveal a pattern. Even as global environmental risks intensify, many U.S. jurisdictions are turning to ecosystems themselves, from coastal marshes to urban parks and forested watersheds, as critical infrastructure for resilience, signaling a shift toward nature based strategies at multiple levels of governance.

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