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Climate Disasters

Climate disasters, like Hurricanes Harvey or Ida, are storms and other natural phenomenon exacerbated by the impact of pollution on global temperature and weather patterns.

  • Residents in Houston's Sunnyside community came together to install their own air monitoring network to collect data they can use to demand accountability.

    'We all breathe the same air': A conversation about equity with Grace Tee Lewis

    By Lacy M. Johnson
    08.17.2022

  • Five years later, mold lingers in the pantry of Gloria Smith's home in Acres Homes, which was flooded by Hurricane Harvey. Photo: Yi-Chin Lee.

    Hurricane Harvey’s still here for Houston’s historically Black communities

    By Rev. James Caldwell
    09.6.2022

  • Thousands of respondents told the Texas Flood Registry that their behavioral changes started after the impacts of Hurricane Harvey in 2017.

    Along the Gulf Coast, mental health suffers even after the floodwaters recede

    By Xander Peters
    04.7.2021

  • Without considering equity, Iris Gonzalez says, Houston will "continue falling into the patterns that leave some communities behind." Photo: Lance Cpl. Niles Lee.

    Where's the equity in Houston's climate action plan?

    By Michael Coleman
    06.4.2020

  • "I think that there is a loss of connection that happened during COVID and the lockdowns that we're still recovering from," Franklin says. Photo: Lenard the Photographer.

    'We need to be figuring out how we can come together': A conversation with Kam Franklin

    By Allyn West
    10.19.2022

  • Our dams couldn’t hold Harvey, but we have so much capacity in this city. Illustration: Sebastian Gomez de la Torre.

    Poem: 'Through the Eye'

    By Ariana Lee
    10.5.2022

  • We have to make sure communities can respond and recover more quickly, and more fully, after storms like Hurricane Ida. Photo: Lousiana National Guard.

    The Gulf Coast is worth the fight

    By Tonya Calhoun
    09.23.2021

  • Corporate polluters in Texas pay only about a penny per pound of illegal air pollution. Photo: Julie Dermansky.

    For the good of Texans, it's time to make polluters pay

    By Matt Tresaugue
    12.30.2020

  • Houston’s recent move to commit to 100 percent clean energy is a start. But the city can't do it without clear-eyed leadership from Austin.

    Breaking out of Texas' vicious cycle of climate change, disasters and recovery

    By Elena Craft
    06.4.2020

  • At every stage of production, LNG releases methane, which is 85 times more potent a climate-destabilizing pollutant in the short term than carbon dioxide. Photo: Tori Young.

    In the Coastal Bend, the causes of climate change are being permitted. Texas isn't considering the consequences.

    By Amal Ahmed
    08.22.2022

  • The EPA's Office of Inspector General finds that air monitoring during Harvey happened too late and didn't create usable data.

    EPA report confirms air monitoring during Hurricane Harvey was inadequate

    By One Breath Partnership
    12.17.2019

  • After the heavy rains hit Houston, eight area plants shut down, triggering a dangerous pulse of 1.3 million pounds of unpermitted air pollution. Photo: Karl Spencer.

    Industry’s delay only made Harvey's air pollution worse

    By Matt Tresaugue
    08.16.2018

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