Audrey Trufant Salvant has deep roots in Ironton, a close-knit, majority-Black community 25 miles downriver from New Orleans. Her great-great-great grandmother, who had been enslaved, is buried here, and her descendents kept
As the accounting of, and recovery from, Hurricane Ida drags on, nearly 10% of all schoolchildren are still stuck at home as school systems and local officials struggle to recover from Hurricane
Hurricane Ida shutdown all of Entergy's electricity transmission into New Orleans and left hundreds of thousands across the region to suffer a week — or longer — in the heat and darkness.
Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Ida to develop into a major hurricane in the coming days. As of Friday morning, the Hurricane Watch stretched from the Mississippi-Alabama state line to Cameron, Louisiana —
The Atlantic Hurricane season is set to accelerate beyond earlier estimates. NOAA now predicts the 2021 season will see 15-21 named storms, including 7-10 hurricanes, 3-5 of which will be Category 3
For the seventh year in a row, a named storm formed before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season. Subtropical storm Ana formed on Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of
The 2021 hurricane season will be more active than the normal post-1990 year, NOAA meteorologists said Thursday, as climate change continues to stretch the federal government's ability to respond to disasters as
North Carolina residents and local environmental groups are worried the coming hurricane season will once again unleash massive pollution from the state's thousands of hog waste lagoons, Environmental Health News reports. In
Cyclone Tauktae hit Gujarat state, north of Mumbai, on India's western coast, Monday night local time, as the nation is in the midst of a devastating wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fueled
The international body that names hurricanes and tropical storms will no longer name storms after Greek letters after the record-shattering 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. The World Meteorological Organization said too much focus
Nory Yamileth Hernández lost nearly everything when Hurricanes Eta and Iota flooded her home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. She and her three teenage children live in a tent under a bridge
Hurricanes are staying stronger for longer after making landfall, causing greater and more widespread destruction, because ocean waters heated by climate change give them extra fuel, according to a study published Wednesday
Hurricane Eta ground across Nicaragua and Honduras yesterday, causing major flooding, landslides, and wind damage. At least three people have been reported dead, two miners in Nicaragua and a 13-year-old girl in
The record-tying 28th named storm of the 2020 Atlantic storm season, Eta, intensified into a hurricane early this morning and is expected to hit Central America early tomorrow morning. Forecasters warn Hurricane
Hurricane Zeta slammed eastern Louisiana yesterday with sustained 110 mph winds and a storm surge of at least eight feet on a path that took its eye directly over New Orleans. The
Hurricane Zeta weakened after hitting the Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday, but restrengthened into a hurricane early Wednesday morning. The storm is expected to further intensify today and make landfall as a Category 2
When Hurricane Laura slammed into Lake Charles, Louisiana at the end of August, it downed power lines, felled trees and stripped roofs off houses in its path. After the storm passed and
In a repeatedly record-breaking 2020 Atlantic Hurricane season, Hurricane Epsilon smashed multiple records yesterday. The storm exploded from a tropical storm with 45 mph winds on Tuesday morning to a Category 3
Nearly one million people could be made homeless if Miami-Dade county is hit by a major hurricane, most of them among the county's poorest residents, the Miami Herald reports. Nearly one-third of
Hurricane Delta is set to batter southwest Louisiana later today, as residents there prepare to be hit once again by a storm that has rapidly intensified, experts say, largely because of global
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