John Muyskens

• Environment

Highway and city planners saddled a once-proud Black community with freeways and diesel fumes, while more affluent neighborhoods were spared such burdens.

• Education

The Washington Post for years has tracked the number of students affected by school shootings. Since 1999, over 300,000 children have experienced gun violence during school hours.

• Climate Lab

The split shows that much of the South, and rural America, could ditch fossil fuels easier than big cities and the coasts.

Strong winds fueled by climate change are expected to reach further inland and northward, putting more Americans at risk.

A visual timeline of how the Norfolk Southern train disaster unfolded.

• Climate and Environment

President Biden is unwinding Donald Trump’s environmental legacy while forging his own. The Washington Post is chronicling every step.

• Climate & Environment

A review of extreme flooding events this summer showed FEMA's flood maps are failing to fully inform Americans of flood risk in rural and urban areas.

• Climate Lab

These scenarios help show us what needs to be done — and what we can still do.

In few places is Florida’s population and development boom over the past half century more apparent than along the swath of coastline facing disastrous impacts from Ian, from the Tampa Bay area south to Fort Myers and Naples.