hurricanes

More than 60% of Puerto Ricans seeking FEMA aid after Hurricane Maria had their applications denied – will the agency approve more this time?

In many communities, affordable housing returns slowly after a disaster, if at all, says a Texas A&M urban planning researcher.

The team deployed to Florida Oct. 4 to provide veterinary medical support for FEMA search and rescue dogs.

Texas A&M is supporting more than 80 urban search and rescue dogs, who can be at risk due to contaminated flood waters, among other hazards.

Nonprofits play many pivotal roles before and after FEMA aid runs out, says the director of Texas A&M's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center.

Professor Robin Murphy and her team have deployed robots to nearly 30 disasters in five countries, including Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey.

The same La Niña conditions that helped usher in an exceptionally hot and dry summer are also setting the stage for increased hurricane activity — but those storms won’t bring the kind of rain Texans have been hoping for.

Texas A&M scientist has found that late season storms to have greater potential for intensifying than early season storms.

Texas A&M researchers will lead the hub to minimize the socio-economic impact of hazards to historically underrepresented communities along the Northern Gulf Coast.

Future storms could have even larger impacts "if we're not wise now," Texas A&M professor Andrew Dessler says.