Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On May 16, 2024, a powerful derecho swept through Houston, killing seven people and causing significant damage to several of the city's towering skyscrapers. Those buildings were constructed to withstand much stronger hurricane-force winds up to 67 meters per second, as one would get with a Category 4 hurricane.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The peak transmission period for West Nile currently lasts about three months per year in Miami, but would likely increase to about five months. Flooding from extreme storms like hurricanes will also become more frequent. Today’s extreme event becomes tomorrow’s normal event.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 9, 2025

Layoffs last week at NOAAs Office of Aircraft Operations, home of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, threaten to reduce the quality of data critical for hurricane monitoring, prediction, and warning. Hurricane Hunters fly into active storms to collect data used for weather forecasts.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

We’ve preemptively identified a lot of nonprofits in our community that work on cause areas related to election topics. We’re working to help make it even easier for donors to find the causes and the organizations they might care about on our platform.” Causes that have really local footprints will benefit.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

Last September, as Hurricane Helene barreled toward the coast of Florida, Andrew Hazelton was in a plane flying into the eye of the storm. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is in charge of tracking, predicting, and responding to hurricanes , among many other things, from deep sea exploration to climate research.)

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The Verge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But we missed a lot, too: a rise in curated experiences did not cause algorithms to “fade into the background”; a deepfake app did not go mainstream in the United States; and Twitch streaming did not power the rise of Oculus. Meanwhile, everyone begins spending more time in Austin and Miami. But the pandemic sort of did?

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post , “but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies.”. Hurricane Season — Jak (@crownme_kay95) May 31, 2020.

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