By Jamie Smith Hopkins Disasters are stressful. Our warming world keeps adding fuel to the fires — and floods and hurricanes, among other calamities. What can be done about the trauma that follows? The Center for Public Integrity, Columbia Journalism Investigations and our partners in newsrooms around the country have been reporting on this for […]
Hurricane Hanna, the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, battered the Texas coast on Saturday and Sunday as the state continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. Hanna made landfall as a Category 1 storm at 6 p.m. EDT Saturday along the Padre Island National Seashore, around 50 miles south of Corpus Christi, Yale […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Tuesday that a trend of increased coastal flooding will continue to worsen as the climate crisis escalates. Increased flooding is happening even without storms. “Nuisance” or “sunny day” high-tide flooding is becoming more commonplace across the U.S., according to the NOAA report that warns such flooding will […]
Scores of people remained stranded in southern Japan on Sunday after heavy rain the day before caused deep flooding and mudslides that left at least 34 people confirmed or presumed dead. Floodwaters from the Kuma River inundated many houses, buildings and vehicles, causing people to climb onto roofs and wait for rescue. More than 40,000 […]
Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall in Louisiana Sunday as the earliest third named storm on record in the Atlantic Basin. The storm brought flooding to parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and caused tornadoes in the Sunshine State, The Associated Press reported. While it made landfall well below hurricane strength with winds of 50 […]
At least 100,000 people were evacuated along India‘s west coast as the country’s financial capital of Mumbai awaits its first cyclone in more than 70 years. Cyclone Nisarga comes as Mumbai struggles to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The city is the worst hit in India, with more than 40,000 confirmed cases and almost 1,400 deaths, […]
At least 14 people were killed when Tropical Storm Amanda walloped El Salvador Sunday, Interior Minister Mario Duran said. Four people are missing, according to Noticias El Salvador, and around 200 homes were damaged by falling trees, flooding and mudslides, AFP reported. “We lost everything, we’ve been left with nowhere to live,” San Salvador resident […]
At least 84 people were killed when Cyclone Amphan walloped India and Bangladesh Wednesday, bringing “war-like” destruction to the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, The Guardian reported. The response to the storm, which made landfall as the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane, was complicated by the spread of the […]
Around 10,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in central Michigan after heavy rain prompted what the National Weather Service called “catastrophic failures” at two dams. The Edenville and Sanford dams collapsed Tuesday night, threatening to drench the town of Midland, Michigan under nine feet of water, Reuters reported. The flooding comes as Michigan […]
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