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Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Longform Stories by weather.com Follow Us on Twitter Twitter Follow Us on Facebook Facebook Home Unrecovered People Environment Climate Wildlife Disasters Science Politics Health Travel Playing Through Pandemics Written by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling Read More Smoky Skies, Altered Lives As wildfire smoke permeates even indoors, is government doing enough to respond? Read More Ellicott City, Md.: A City on Edge Read More Polluted by Politics Water data reveal how a devastating agricultural legacy, aggravated by decades of political failure – and now climate change – thwart quest for solutions. Read More Legislative Sleight of Hand While the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs has been regulating pollution running off farms, not a single enforcement action has been taken against a farmer or rancher. Here's how they kept it that way. Read More Browse Series Home Unrecovered People Environment Climate Wildlife Disasters Science Politics Health Travel Browse Categories Climate Disasters Environment Featured Health People Politics Science Space Technology Travel Unrecovered Wildlife Posts List Unrecovered Playing Through Pandemics Written by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling Is the key to coronavirus, climate change and responding to natural disasters playing a bunch of board games? Read Article > about Playing Through Pandemics Unrecovered Smoky Skies, Altered Lives As wildfire smoke permeates even indoors, is government doing enough to respond? Written by Mara Kardas-Nelson | InvestigateWest Read Article > about Smoky Skies, Altered Lives Climate | Disasters | People | Unrecovered Ellicott City, Md.: A City on Edge Ellicott City, Maryland, has experienced two 1,000-year floods in two years. Can the city preserve its history and tourist economy before the next big flood? Read Article > about Ellicott City, Md.: A City on Edge Environment | Politics | Unrecovered Polluted by Politics Water data reveal how a devastating agricultural legacy, aggravated by decades of political failure – and now climate change – thwart quest for solutions. Written by Marcus Stern and Meryl Kornfield This story is a collaboration of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and The Weather Channel and is being co-published by the Tampa Bay Times. Read Article > about Polluted by Politics Unrecovered Legislative Sleight of Hand While the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs has been regulating pollution running off farms, not a single enforcement action has been taken against a farmer or rancher. Here's how they kept it that way. Written by Meryl Kornfield and Marcus Stern This story is a collaboration of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and The Weather Channel and is being co-published by the Tampa Bay Times. Read Article > about Legislative Sleight of Hand Climate | Disasters | Environment | Featured | Health | Hidden | People | Politics | RAM | Science | Space | Technology | Travel | Uncategorized | Unrecovered In Need of a Net Written by Amanda Sperber Photographed by Ed Ram In Mozambique, imbalance of power and unemployment define a flailing hurricane disaster response. Read Article > about In Need of a Net Unrecovered Death Comes in Threes Reported and photographed by Tim Freccia Written and with additional reporting by Nicole Bonaccorso First, a devastating hurricane. Then weeks of earthquakes. Now Puerto Rico faces its third tragedy in less than three years. Read Article > about Death Comes in Threes Unrecovered Praying for Rain Written by Tim Folger Food & Environment Reporting Network Photographed by Bill Hatcher The Zuni tribe's homeland is one of the most parched sections of the country. The tribe has already declared three drought emergencies in the last 15 years. Will it survive the next one? Read Article > about Praying for Rain Unrecovered Land, Water, Spirits, War The Inuit of Labrador face off against Canada’s hydropower industry in a battle against irreversible environmental and cultural damage. Read Article > about Land, Water, Spirits, War Climate | Environment | Science | Unrecovered | Wildlife Dance of the Dying Whales Written by Matt Hongoltz-Hetling Illustrated by Courtney Zell This family of endangered North Atlantic Right Whales has danced away from extinction for decades. Now, climate change is pushing them over the edge. Read Article > about Dance of the Dying Whales Climate | Environment | Health | People | Science When Memory Fails Written by Niki Budnick In 2018, more children died in the United States of vehicular heatstroke than ever before. There is a solution. One county in Arizona used science-backed public health messaging to prevent the accidental death of children in hot vehicles. Read Article > about When Memory Fails Uncategorized A Course in Climate Misinformation Written and reported by Joseph McCarthy Prager University is not a university. And the facts it preaches aren’t necessarily facts. It is named after someone named Prager, though. Read Article > about A Course in Climate Misinformation Climate | Politics | Science A Major National Climate Report Came Out. Then the Deniers Got on TV. Written by Joseph McCarthy Following the release of the National Climate Assessment, climate change deniers got numerous chances to spread misinformation, unchallenged on TV. Read Article > about A Major National Climate Report Came Out. Then the Deniers Got on TV. Disasters | Environment Causing a Catastrophe Written and Produced by Niki Budnick When the West Quincy Levee failed during catastrophic floods 25 years ago, police pegged James Robert Scott as the cause. Read Article > about Causing a Catastrophe Health | People | Politics Far From Natural Written and reported by Joe McCarthy | Additional reporting by Will Goodman and Marcus Stern How a misinformation empire draws strength from Google and Facebook. Read Article > about Far From Natural Climate | Disasters | Science Superstorm Sandy: The Impacts Research by Jonathan Erdman, Design by Evan Travelstead Maps and charts tell the story of Superstorm Sandy's impact five years ago. Read Article > about Superstorm Sandy: The Impacts Disasters | Featured | People Rebuilt, Repaired, Abandoned: Five Years After Sandy Photography and reporting by Liz Roll Written and with additional reporting by Nicole Bonaccorso This piece was jointly published by The Weather Channel and NBCNews.com Photographer Liz Roll documented the New Jersey coastline for three months after Superstorm Sandy ravaged shore towns. Five years later, weather.com sent her back to the same locations to photograph the changes over time. While many people have rebuilt and the boardwalks are largely restored, empty lots remain and scars from Sandy are still visible. Read Article > about Rebuilt, Repaired, Abandoned: Five Years After Sandy People From Farm to Pumpkin Beer Written by Megan Hill, Video by Andrew Hida Tracing the origins of Elysian Brewing’s famous fall beers. Read Article > about From Farm to Pumpkin Beer Disasters | Featured | People Puerto Rico Endures Photography by Alex Wroblewski Photo Editing by Euna Park Read Article > about Puerto Rico Endures Disasters | People | RAM The Ruins of Rockport Written by Meredith Rutland Bauer 360 Video by Andrea Cornejo A community stays "Texas Strong" amidst devastation from Hurricane Harvey. Read Article > about The Ruins of Rockport Disasters | Featured | People The Things They Saved from Irma Photography and Reporting by Maura Friedman Millions fled Hurricane Irma as it headed for the Southeast. Photographer Maura Friedman interviewed evacuees who hunkered down in Atlanta, overwhelmed with anxiety over the possibility of losing their homes. Friedman asked them one question: What was the one thing you couldn't leave behind? Read Article > about The Things They Saved from Irma Climate | Disasters Reflections of Harvey Photography by Julie Dermansky Hu...