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“Natural” Disasters
“Natural” Disasters
“Natural” Disasters
As millions of Americans struggle to recover from this year's devastating hurricanes, we offer up this collection of stories about previous generations' ways of dealing with meteorological calamity.
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“Natural” Disasters
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Hurricanes Drive Immigration to the US
Why hurricane refugees are more likely to come from some countries than others.
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Dean Yang
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Parag Mahajan
How Texas Rebuilt After the Deadliest Hurricane in U.S. History
The 12-year process of creating a "new normal" in Galveston.
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Olivia B. Waxman
Reading the Horizon
Predicting a hurricane in nineteenth-century South Carolina.
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Caroline Grego
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Hurricanes Have Hampered Racial Justice Activism in the Past
Just before a lynch mob was to face trial in Florida in 1926, a storm hit.
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Brandon T. Jett
Inside the Hurricane That Drove Alexander Hamilton to America
The young Founder’s evocative account of the tempest inspired people to send him to the Colonies for a formal education.
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Bob Henson
How Is a Disaster Made?
Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.
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Andy Horowitz
The Water Next Time?
For generations, a North Carolina town founded by former slaves has been disproportionately affected by environmental calamity.
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Danielle Purifoy
The Unlearned Lesson of Hurricane Maria
A hurricane historian talks about the still-unfolding disaster in Puerto Rico.
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Stuart B. Schwartz
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Adam Behrman
100 Years of Hurricanes, Animated
Based on a century's worth of NOAA data.
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Topi Tjukanov
Thirty Years of Atlantic Hurricanes
A history of every Atlantic storm tracked by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 1987.
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Chris Canipe
Why Would Anyone In Puerto Rico Want A Hurricane? Because Someone Will Get Rich.
How tax breaks and a quasi-colonial status make the island vulnerable to disasters.
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Yarimar Bonilla
The 1938 Hurricane That Revived New England's Fall Colors
An epic natural disaster restored the forest of an earlier America.
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Stephen Long
The Secret History of FEMA
The federal agency in charge of hurricane Harvey cleanup has a weird Cold War legacy.
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Garrett M. Graff
The Woman Who Helped Change How Hurricanes Are Named
For decades, only female names were used.
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Olivia B. Waxman
The Fellowship of the Tree Rings: A ClioVis Project
The disparate and intriguing connections found in environmental history, one tree ring at a time.
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Aidan Dresang
What Survives
Lacy M. Johnson walks through a nature center near Houston that has reclaimed the land where a neighborhood, sunken by oil extraction and floodwater, once stood.
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Lacy M. Johnson
A Disaster 100 Years in the Making
Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.
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Eric Klinenberg
On the Great and Terrible Hurricane of 1938
And the lone forecaster who predicted its deadly path.
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Eric Jay Dolin
What 100-Year-Old Hurricanes Could Teach Us About Irma
Can the history of hurricanes prove the existence of climate change?
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Maggie Koerth-Baker
America's Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More)
If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.
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Garrett M. Graff
Fire
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Flood
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Policy
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Aftermath
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