Hurricane Ida hit the Louisiana coast with 150 mile-per-hour winds on Aug. 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans on nearly the same path. Ida was one of the most intense tropical storms on record in the state. Its storm surge was less than Katrina’s, but it quickly flooded […]
Stacy Morford
Stacy Morford covered science, environment, climate change and sustainable development issues for several years as an editor at InsideClimate News and as a communications officer working with scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and with economists at the World Bank. She previously was an Associated Press state government reporter and national editor. She has a master's degree in education psychology focused on cognition and learning.