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The downtown Houston skyline and flooded highway 288 are seen August 27, 2017 as the city battles with tropical storm Harvey and resulting floods

Houston got rich on urban sprawl, and now it’s paying the price

6 September 2017

Unfettered economic growth guaranteed Houston's vulnerability to a natural disaster that hit the poorest hardest, says analyst Owen Gaffney
A handful of golf-ball-sized hailstones

More killer hail coming unless we curb global warming

26 June 2017

Extreme hail storms can be a threat to life and property. If we carry on polluting the planet we'll have to face more of them, warns physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert

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