
Low-income housing in flood zones traps families in harm’s way
Nearly one out of every 10 low-income housing projects is in a flood zone. In Houston, residents of a government-subsidized...

Climate change is expected to bring more intense storms like Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence is on a collision course with the southeastern United States. The immense and powerful storm...

Hurricane Harvey has increased homelessness in Houston
Last August, Hurricane Harvey set records as the costliest hurricane in history and the wettest tropical cyclone...

This is how high NYC's sea levels will rise if we don't take climate action
Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world's cities if we do nothing —...

The public health impact of Hurricane Harvey is worse than we've been told
More than six months since Hurricane Harvey decimated much of Central America and the American Gulf Coast, the...

Houston Bike Share offers free bicycles to people who lost cars to Harvey
Houston Bike Share is distributing free bicycles to those who lost their vehicles in Hurricane Harvey. When the...

NASA researcher says Harvey flooding pushed Houston down two centimeters
Harvey unloaded around 33 trillion gallons of water in the United States, the weight of which is capable of bending...

Hurricane Jose strengthens to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4
Hot on the heels of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma is yet another natural disaster, Hurricane Jose. The “extremely...

Arctic warming likely turned Harvey into "an extreme killer storm"
Melting Arctic ice and spiking temperatures don't just affect the northernmost part of Earth. According to Cornell...

Explosions rock Houston-area chemical plant following Hurricane Harvey flooding
Several explosions at a Houston-area chemical plant were reported on early Thursday morning, reportedly related...

Hurricane Harvey may have totaled up to 500,000 cars
Hurricane Harvey didn’t just devastate homes and businesses - it may also have totaled up to half a million cars....

Fire ants swarm into floating rafts to survive Harvey
People battling flooding and destruction in Texas after Tropical Storm Harvey face yet another hazard: fire ants....

Hurricane Harvey damaged ExxonMobil refineries, causing hazardous pollutants to leak
After Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas last weekend, you probably didn’t think the situation could...