Hurricanes
Hurricane Wars
By Phillip Farruggio
Sept. 4, 2019
As we in Florida await in our ( hopefully) boarded up and sandbagged homes the arrival of but another deadly...
From Heat Waves to Hurricanes: What We Know About Extreme Weather...
By NADJA POPOVICH
SEPT. 15, 2017
It’s been a hectic end to summer, meteorologically speaking.
Back-to-back hurricanes raked Texas, Florida and the Caribbean. A Labor...
Venezuela to Donate $5m to Hurricane Harvey Relief
Aug 31st 2017
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim
Venezuela announced Wednesday it will donate US$5 million to aid recovery efforts in the US states of Texas and Louisiana,...
Chronicle of a Flood Foretold
By Jeffrey St. Clair
Houston didn’t need to be warned. The city had already been sunk by four major hurricanes, each less powerful than Harvey,...
Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us
Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us
The victims of Hurricane Harvey have a murderer—and it’s not the storm.
By Mark Hertsgaard
The horrors hurled at Houston and...
A Storm That Could ‘Rewrite History’: Irma Hits as Most Powerful...
"The dangerousness of this event is like nothing we've ever seen," warns governor of Puerto Rico as mega-storm makes landfall in the Caribbean
by Jon...
A Lesson for the US: Cuba’s Response to Hurricanes
How a small Caribbean island with few resources manages to protect its people from extreme weather better than some of the richest countries.
Preparedness and...