Residents have faced slow rebuilding efforts as many homes remain damaged following the Category 1 hurricane
Home insurance companies are increasingly refusing to protect vulnerable areas, as severe weather events become more common due to climate change
Weeks after Hurricane Beryl whipped through Gulf Coast communities, residents are still recovering from unprecedented power outages and damage. More than 2.5 million homes, schools, and businesses lost power during the Category 1 hurricane, which passed directly over the Houston area on July 8. Hundreds of thousands remained without
When smoke from wildfires in Quebec started blanketing New York’s morning sky last summer, Corey Arthur, an incarcerated person at Otisville Correctional Facilities west of Newburgh, figured it was probably a chemical explosion. Despite having heard about the wildfires for several days on the news, he could barely believe
As growing concerns of authoritarianism grip the U.S., residents of Long Island’s Nassau County are pushing back on a new government initiative deputizing armed civilians. In March, Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman began recruiting armed citizens and training them to respond to natural disasters, unrest, and other
When continued investment in practices that destroy the environment compounds our rapidly changing climate system, those with the least suffer the most
Officials are still working to narrow down the total number of children who may have died
Organizers say the current system for emergencies operates too slowly to support unhoused Angelenos
Disability inclusion in emergency preparedness and response requires including disabled communities in disaster relief strategy
Manufactured and affordable homes are disproportionately susceptible to climate change, but housing cooperatives give autonomy and power back to residents and improve their quality of life
After a tornado killed six Amazon workers in Illinois, the calls for worker protections from environmental disasters have strengthened
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