hurricanes

The disparate and intriguing connections found in environmental history, one tree ring at a time.

Predicting a hurricane in nineteenth-century South Carolina.

Just before a lynch mob was to face trial in Florida in 1926, a storm hit.

The young Founder’s evocative account of the tempest inspired people to send him to the Colonies for a formal education.

And the lone forecaster who predicted its deadly path.

A hurricane historian talks about the still-unfolding disaster in Puerto Rico.

Why hurricane refugees are more likely to come from some countries than others.

Can the history of hurricanes prove the existence of climate change?

A history of every Atlantic storm tracked by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 1987.

For decades, only female names were used.

Based on a century's worth of NOAA data.

The 12-year process of creating a "new normal" in Galveston.

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.

In Princeville, what’s at stake is not just one town’s survival but a unique window into American history.

Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.

Studying Hurricane Katrina as a discrete event is studying a fiction.

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.

For generations, a North Carolina town founded by former slaves has been disproportionately affected by environmental calamity.

Today's rhetoric about dependency and disaster relief echoes a conversation from more than a century ago.

The island’s New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.