And it even pops up at one of America’s most iconic beach getaways — as we find out in Episode 4 of Hell or High Water, a new podcast about disaster that I host for Vox Media and Audible. To learn more about why this is a problem across the US, I spoke with Catherine Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.
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We found something nasty in the rising waters inundating Miami for Episode 4 of Hell or High Water, a new podcast I host about disaster from Vox Media and Audible. How did it get there? Dive in to find out.
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What will it take to keep living with this huge looming threat? Episode 3 of Hell or High Water brings me back to my home state to answer that question.
It’s a new podcast I host that takes us to places where disaster hits again and again. To read more about learning to live with fire, check out my story for The Verge about homes designed not to burn.
That’s what nearly wiped out all of Greenville, California in 2021. Now, residents are turning to traditional practices and new technologies to live with fire as a fact of life. We take you to Greenville in Episiode 3 of Hell or High Water, a new podcast I host from Vox Media and Audible about what happens after disaster hits.
There’s a reason why some parts of a city are literally hotter than others. We learn why that falls along racial and economic lines in Phoenix in Episode 2 of Hell or High Water, a new podcast I host from Vox Media and Audible.
I also took New York City’s temperature for The Verge back in 2021. Check out our video below and our heat map here.
That’s why I’ve been obsessed with extreme heat as a climate journalist. I host a new podcast called Hell or High Water, from Vox Media and Audible, that launched this week. Episode 2 takes us to America’s hottest city, Phoenix, where staying cool is a matter of life or death.
Louisiana’s coastlines aren’t the only shores vanishing under rising seas, as we hear about on the first episode of Hell or High Water, a new podcast about surviving disaster from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Before working on the podcast, I reported on these incredible visuals of what the future could look like with 3 degrees of global warming.







