Hurricane Harvey is a billion-dollar disaster – America's 10th in 2017

Despite a ‘rapid succession of disaster events’, the agency tracking changes in climate faces severe budget cuts under Donald TrumpA timeline of $1bn extreme weather damage in the US
Even before Hurricane Harvey began to form, out in the north Atlantic, federal climate experts signalled that 2017 was going to be a bad year for weather and climate catastrophes in America. According to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), there had already been ni