Brady Dennis
National environmental reporter for The Washington Post, focused primarily on the Southeast. Tar Heel born and bred. brady.dennis@washpost.com
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- For the latest in a @washingtonpost series about places where extreme rainfall is hitting hardest around the globe, I spent time in one of the "hot spots" increasingly vulnerable to heavy rains and devastating floods: central Appalachia. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
- N.C. counties that busted budgets after Helene still waiting for FEMA to pay them back www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- 5 more Outer Banks houses collapse into the ocean amid stormy seas www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- As Texas flooded, key staff say FEMA’s leader could not be reached. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- Amid hurricane season, FEMA staffers reassigned to support deportations, via Brianna Sacks wapo.st/40PWNIH
- “How do you plan for the worst thing you’ve never seen?” A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared. via @sarahkaplan48.bsky.social @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social @naemas.bsky.social @bennollweather.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- How to help Texas flood victims and first responders www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
- Between broken tree limbs and muddied cabins, a father looks for his missing child @arelisrhdz www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
- More than a decade after water crisis, Flint, Mich., has finally replaced most of its lead pipes. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Land deal ends controversial mining fight near Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- I remember making my way to Chimney Rock just after Hurricane Helene hit, and struggling to grasp the scope of devastation. Almost 8 months later, I went back to see how a town that almost got wiped off the map is trying to resurrect itself: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- NOAA scrambles to fill forecasting jobs as hurricane season looms: via @byscottdance.com www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- Despite all the work, many private roads in western North Carolina remain in disrepair months after Helene. Here is the story of one: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- From raging fires to record floods, more families across the U.S. are experiencing devastating impacts of the climate crisis. @bittersouth.bsky.social has a dispatch from Western North Carolina on how mothers are shouldering that burden after Helene: bittersoutherner.com/2025/issue-1...
- Reposted by Brady DennisHeartbreaking reporting from @bradydennis.bsky.social on the few Helene victims who remain missing more than seven months after the storm -- and the N.C. law that prevents grieving families from moving on. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Which cities have the most trees? See how yours stacks up. via @bananafish.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Trump touts ‘clean coal’ — but cuts programs that protect miners, via @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- My colleague Bri Sacks on a reality so many will face: "Each major, once unfathomable disaster has been laying out the truth in clear, plain terms: In this era of climate change, there are fewer and fewer safe places. Great loss, for many of us, is inevitable." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- DOGE cuts at a Florida manatee refuge have been reversed — for now
- Wildfires have always burned in the South. Here’s why they’re getting worse. Latest w/@RubyMellen from a smoky, smoldering western North Carolina www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- 1 in 8 Californians now face extreme fire danger, Post analysis shows www.washingtonpost.com/weather/inte...
- Reposted by Brady DennisIn the Australian outback, people survive surging heat waves by living underground -- or else take on mounting energy costs to keep cool. A fascinating dispatch on how climate change is exacerbating racial and economic divides, by Michael E. Miller:
- What went wrong the night Altadena burned wapo.st/4kuSCdu
- Massive storm system kills 28 in central U.S. as tornado risk peaks
- Biden said this Louisiana plant was a health threat. Trump dropped a lawsuit against it. @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and Amudalat Ajasa: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Wildfires in the Carolinas prompt a state of emergency, evacuations www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- Mass firings hit critical National Weather Service and NOAA offices. Via @byscottdance.com wapo.st/4hX87ZQ
- EPA tells White House to strike down landmark climate finding, via @maxinejoselow.bsky.social wapo.st/43bee8s
- “It makes you sit back and wonder, ‘Do I really want to do this again?’” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Wildfire spurs evacuations in Helene-ravaged North Carolina www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- One construction crew’s desperate fight to save the Palisades wapo.st/42iJ3Yk
- As the smoke clears, L.A. residents face a complicated and uncertain recovery www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- Disaster is in the air. It clouds the skies, it sears the eyes, it lodges in the lungs. Most of all, it weighs on the heart. Even for millions of Angelenos who are miles away, the fires are still inescapable, an ever-present ache. @reisthebault www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Home after home is gone. Old apartment buildings, mansions, cottages, generational homes. Gone. Community centers. Parks. Gas stations. Coffee shops. Banks. Grocery stores. They’re all gone. w/Brianna Sacks, on the ground in LA. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
- Jimmy Carter’s post-presidency lasted more than 43 years — the longest of any former commander in chief by more than a decade. But it’s what he packed into those years that set him apart. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
- Why sea level rise in the U.S. South is blowing past expectations The latest in our series, The Drowing South. via @johnmuyskens.bsky.social Kevin Crowe, Simon Ducroquet, @shannonosaka.bsky.social @bananafish.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
- Some N.C. residents distrust FEMA so much they’re hesitant to apply for hurricane aid: via Brianna Sacks and Kevin Crowe www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...
- Still searching: Nearly three months after Hurricane Helene, friends and family of missing Yancey County musician Lenny Widawski are still looking for him. He’s one of fewer than a dozen people whose bodies have not been found. www.theassemblync.com/place/missin...
- Bob was an all-time great reporter — dogged, fair, curious and revelatory. But he was an even better friend, mentor and human. He loved his kids, fly fishing, history, music, the natural world … and laughter. I learned so much from his example. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
