Hurricane Irma

Four years after Maria, a church emerges as a community’s biggest support

By PBS NewsHour

2 years later, U.S. island territories still hurting from Hurricanes Irma and Maria

Although 2020 is only days away, Americans in the territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are still recovering from devastating storms that hit back in the fall of 2017. Hurricanes Maria and Irma flooded and leveled parts…

Why the Florida Keys still need support, a year and a half after Hurricane Irma

In March, FEMA ended its temporary housing program for people affected by Hurricane Irma, which slammed the Florida Keys in September 2017. But as rebuilding continues after one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, shelter for survivors and volunteers…

By Alicia Menendez, Lorna Baldwin

WATCH: House holds hearing on Harvey, Irma, Maria recovery funds

The House Financial Services Committee hearing will begin at 10 a.m. ET today. Watch it here.

By Joshua Barajas

Climate change has intensified hurricane rainfall, and now we know how much

Hurricane Harvey wasn’t an outlier. A new study reports that climate change intensified the rains of other recent cyclones by between 4 and 9 percent.

By Julia Griffin

Hurricane Irma nearly destroyed Barbuda. Will recovery destroy the island’s communal way of life?

By Steve Sapienza, Pulitzer Center

The land on Barbuda has been held in common ownership by all Barbudans since the end of slavery there, but the government claims privatizing some parts will help finance hurricane recovery.

Why more than 1,000 deaths are missing from Puerto Rico’s official death toll

By Alexis R. Santos-Lozada, The Conversation

A demographer explains the math behind the new post-hurricane death toll numbers in Puerto Rico.

AP finds climate change risk for 327 toxic Superfund sites

By Jason Dearen, Michael Biesecker and Angeliki Kastanis, Associated Press

Nearly 2 million people in the U.S. live within a mile of 327 Superfund sites in areas prone to flooding or vulnerable to sea-level rise caused by climate change.

White House requests $44 billion in disaster aid

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

The request, President Donald Trump’s third since hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria slammed the Gulf Coast and Caribbean, would bring the total appropriated for disaster relief this fall close to $100 billion — and that’s before most of the money…

Senate passes $36.5 billion disaster aid bill

By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press

The Senate passed a $36.5 billion emergency aid measure Tuesday to refill disaster accounts, provide a much-needed cash infusion to Puerto Rico, and bail out the federal flood insurance program.