Tropical Storm Barry (2007)

Some hoped for yet another rebirth of the Key West Extension, pointing to the fact that despite the devastation of much of the low-lying roadbed, Flagler’s mighty bridges had weathered the storm virtually unscathed. But already bankrupt and in the hands of a receiver, the FEC was in no position to rebuild anything, much less a project that Scientif

In 2007, half the nation didn’t have access to clean water. Flash floods during the rainy season lead to outbreaks of typhoid, leptospirosis, and dengue fever. During these events, Fijians are advised to boil their water or drink from the bottle.

When the Mississippi bursts through its levees, be they natural or man-made, the opening is called a “crevasse.” For most of New Orleans’s history, the term was a synonym for disaster. In 1735, a crevasse-induced flood inundated practically all of New Orleans, which at that point consisted of forty-four square blocks. Sauvé’s Crevasse was a breach

couple of decades ago, few people imagined that the most consequential near-term impacts of climate change on large parts of both the United States and Canada would be the warming-driven population explosion of a tiny pest, the tree-destroying bark beetle. Only through a comprehensive and ongoing