99% Invisible

Zombie mortgages—decades-old debts—are suddenly coming back to life and threatening to take everything away.

Once considered the most dangerous city in the world due to drug cartel violence, by the early 2000s Medellin had reinvented itself. But gentrification is allowing criminal gangs to reap large profits from a shadow economy powered by the tourist boom.

In the final episode of Not Built for This, we reckon with the biological limits of climate adaptation.

How the residents of Hamilton City, California finally got the levee they deserved.

What’s it like for residents to fight like hell for help, but the help on offer means leaving the place they love?

As storms get more extreme and unpredictable, insurance companies are running the numbers on Florida and realizing that the math just isn’t working anymore.

How a wildfire in California exacerbated a housing crisis.

Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate haven.” But last summer, he got a wake up call in the form of a devastating flood.

Featuring writer and influencer, Shiloh Frederick, and covering the second section of Part 6, chapters 33-34.