Some of the storm’s risks are not so obvious, from rivers of toxic waste to unevacuated prisons.
Disasters like this one have been found to disproportionately affect low-income people and people of color.
Multiple intense storms are moving across the Atlantic and the Pacific, with millions of people in their paths.
One year after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, researchers are just beginning to understand what went wrong.
The nation’s energy system got off easy from Hurricane Ike. There’s no guarantee that will be true from future storms.
As Atlantic hurricanes intensify, it’s clear that failing to act on science will increase the risks from future storms.
Fresh from surveying the detritus of storms past, our Kiri blogger reviews the case for and against human action making tropical storms bigger and more destructive.
