A derecho windstorm on May 16, 2024, blew out windows at TotalEnergies Tower in downtown Houston. A recently published study employed miniature models of skyscrapers to find out why the May 2024 ...

Less than one year after a derecho slammed Houston and caused significant damage to Downtown structures, a new study says buildings designed to withstand hurricane-force gusts are at a heightened risk ...

MIAMI — Houston, we have a problem. In 2024, downtown Houston became an unintended laboratory for studying extreme weather impacts when two powerful storms hit the city just months apart. First came a ...

Total Energies Tower windows were damaged by the derecho windstorm on May 16, 2024. One year ago Friday, a severe weather phenomenon known as a derecho tore across Southeast Texas, damaging buildings ...

As cars speed by on winding highways taking thousands of Houstonians to their jobs and schools across the city, high above there are thousands of other workers buzzing along. More than 750,000 bees ...

Windows at the Jennie Sealy Hospital in Galveston can withstand a 9-pound, 8-foot-long piece of 2x4 lumber flying at 54 miles per hour. Small gravel picked up by last May’s 100-mph derecho shattered ...

Humans helped make recent devastating U.S. hurricanes wetter but in different ways, two new studies find. Hurricane Harvey snagged on the skyscrapers of Houston, causing it to slow and dump more rain ...