Where does hurricane waste go? We tracked it with Air Tags to find out – the Washington Post

The small 1.54-square-mile Treasure Island would produce over 128,000 cubic yards of debris after the storms — roughly 2 million standard kitchen trash bags worth of waste…
Climate change made all of this year’s Atlantic hurricanes so much worse – Grist

A new analysis finds that the storms’ wind speeds increased by up to 28 miles per hour, boosting their destructive power..
Helene Has Killed More Than 110 People, Here Are Some of Their Stories – the New York Times

After the Category 4 hurricane made landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast and pummeled the Southeast, some victims’ portraits were coming into focus…
Washed Away – AARP

As more older Americans move to the coasts, rising seas are wiping out their homes — and retirement dreams…
Add sand, lose sand, repeat. The climate conundrum for beaches – E&E News

Rebuilding beaches after hurricanes is costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars more than expected as the Army Corps of Engineers pumps mountains of sand onto storm-obliterated shorelines…