The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
The University of Pittsburgh's Daily Student Newspaper

The Pitt News
After waiting on long lines to fill up their gas tanks at the Sheetz station, people were also filling up containers of gas for their generators after Hurricane Helene caused power outages on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Morganton, N.C.

Editorial | Hurricane Helene is a governmental failure

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • September 30, 2024
As climate change continues to accelerate, the frequency and intensity of hurricanes are rising at alarming rates. Just this year alone, communities all over the coasts have been battered, displaced and vulnerable.
New York City is engulfed in haze seen from the Empire State Building observatory, June. 7, 2023, in New York.

Editorial | Recent poor air quality could be a warning sign for things to come

By The Pitt News Editorial Board • June 13, 2023
If you think the air quality, smog and flames are bad now, just wait. Unless we act swiftly, the effects of climate change will become irreversible.
Life jackets for an adult and a child from the remains of the old Cumberland Queen Ferry, which sank, are part of the debris littering the flooded main street after Hurricane Irma swept through the area on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in St. Marys, Ga. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Students watch Irma from afar

By Rachel Glasser | News Editor • September 12, 2017

Catalina Acebal remembers when Hurricane Wilma blasted the doors of her grandparent's home open in 2005. Her father and her grandpa rushed to push the family’s piano against the doors, stacking a...

Typhoon Haiyan

Typhoon Haiyan

By MCT Campus • November 18, 2013

Close-in map of the Philippines showing the path of deadly Typhoon Haiyan and population in the areas hit by the storm; some of the island nation's most heavily populated areas were in the path of the...

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