Environment ‘I Don’t Expect the Season to Be Done’: A Hurricane Expert on What’s Still to Come Pacific Standard spoke with a hurricane forecasting expert on this record-breaking storm season and what might still be in store. Kate Wheeling
Environment How Global Warming Could Push Hurricanes to New Regions Shifts in hemispheric weather patterns may steer tropical systems toward the poles—bad news for New York, New England, and Western Europe. Bob Berwyn
Environment As Florida Braces for Hurricane Irma, Another Storm Is Forming in Its Wake Irma is already projected to be the strongest hurricane recorded outside of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Kate Wheeling
Social Justice ICE Moves Detainees Out of Hurricane Harvey’s Path While Border Patrol Checkpoints Remain Open Immigration checkpoints remained open as thousands evacuated the state's coastal cities. Kate Wheeling
Environment How to Keep Virginia From Sinking Virginia is worsening its own climate change risks through inaction. Here's how it can get back on track. John Upton