The Latest Breaking News from Hurricane Harvey

Texas turned an abandoned golf course into a 200-acre flood-control landscape; while still unfinished during Hurricane Harvey it held 100 million gallons of water

Exploration Green in Clear Lake City, Texas, transformed a former golf course into a 200-acre green space with stormwater detention lakes, wetlands and recreation areas. The project was created to help reduce flooding in the community, with its five planned detention lakes capable of storing 500 million gallons of water.

The Times of India · Aug 23

Federal officials close discrimination case over Texas’ distribution of Hurricane Harvey aid

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has ended a yearslong investigation into how the General Land Office handled $1 billion in disaster aid.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 29

Government liable for damage to homes near Houston dams during Hurricane Harvey floods, court rules

The ruling came in a lawsuit from a group of homeowners and could be appealed. An estimated 14,000 homes were inside the Addicks and Barker reservoirs when Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain in 2017.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 24, 2025

Federal investigators were preparing two Texas housing discrimination cases — until Trump took over

The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.

The Texas Tribune · Mar 25, 2025

Joel Osteen’s megachurch mocked during Hurricane Beryl - years after it was closed during a previous storm

The memes come after the pastor was previously accused of not opening the doors to his 16,8000-capacity church in Houston when Hurricane Harvey slammed the state

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2024

Six years after Hurricane Harvey, the city of Houston still hasn’t allocated $200 million in relief funds

Both the state and the city of Houston say they want to work together to help pay down the remaining funds.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 8, 2024

No water, roads or emergency services: How climate change left a rural neighborhood nearly uninhabitable

In Liberty County, one neighborhood has been slowly abandoned as years of flooding and intense rains prompted a spiral of decline. A struggling buyout program shows the complexities and limitations of “managed retreat” from disaster-prone areas.

The Texas Tribune · Sep 29, 2023

Hurricane Harvey more than doubled the acidity of Texas' Galveston Bay, threatening oyster reefs

Most people associate hurricanes with high winds, intense rain and rapid flooding on land. But these storms can also change the chemistry of coastal waters. Such shifts are less visible than damage on land, but they can have dire consequences for marine life and coastal ocean ecosystems.

The Conversation · Feb 7, 2023

Local nonprofits play a key role in recovery from disasters – while also having to get back on their own feet

When hurricanes, floods and other kinds of disasters throttle a community, people from all over often rush to give those in need money, bottled water, diapers and all sorts of goods.

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2022

Study: Climate disaster coverage can perpetuate false narratives

Racial and gender stereotypes were perpetuated by news images of Hurricane Harvey.

Axios · Oct 13, 2022