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Houston Cleans up After Imelda’s Devastating Rains

Houston Cleans up After Imelda’s Devastating Rains

Authorities confirmed a fifth death this weekend linked to devastating rainfall from Tropical Storm Imelda as the Houston area struggles to recover from last week’s intense flooding. Around 60 residents were rescued by boat Friday after the storm dropped as much as 43 inches of rain in some areas. Cleanup crews are still surveying damages […]

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    More Harvey-Sized Hurricanes Likely to Hit Texas

    More Harvey-Sized Hurricanes Likely to Hit Texas

    By Tim Radford The probability that some city in the U.S. state of Texas will be hit again by Harvey-sized hurricanes, rainstorms that will dump half a meter of water in a short space of time, has increased sixfold in this century and will have increased 18-fold by 2100, thanks to climate change driven by […]

    Toxic Aftereffects of Hurricane Harvey Plague Houston

    Toxic Aftereffects of Hurricane Harvey Plague Houston

    The toxic aftereffects of Hurricane Harvey continue to plague Houston as the city rebuilds three weeks after the devastating storm. Testing conducted by the New York Times earlier this week found instances of E. coli contamination 135 times the legal limit in standing floodwaters around the city. ProPublica and the Texas Tribune reported Thursday that […]

    13 Toxic Waste Sites Damaged by Harvey, Houston Awash in Chemicals

    13 Toxic Waste Sites Damaged by Harvey, Houston Awash in Chemicals

    Toxic waste and pollution are emerging as a top concern as cleanup continued in Houston over the long weekend. Owners of the Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, which suffered multiple explosions and fires last week, announced Sunday it would conduct controlled burns of the rest of the chemicals stored at the damaged facility as a […]

    ‘Unprecedented,’ Historic Storm Dumps Trillions of Tons of Water on Texas

    ‘Unprecedented,’ Historic Storm Dumps Trillions of Tons of Water on Texas

    Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast this weekend, growing from a regenerated tropical depression into a Category 4 hurricane in less than 60 hours. The now-tropical storm has stalled inland over Texas, and the entire Houston metropolitan region is now flooding. With interstates under feet of water, and most of the streams and rivers […]