In November 2013, the world watched the slow trickle and then sudden deluge of media coverage of widespread devastation from Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever recorded, as it slammed into the central Philippines. Over a million homes were damaged or destroyed by record-breaking winds, flash floods and storm surges that reached up to 20 feet. Mario Soriano Jr., an environmental fellow at Princeton University’s High Meadows Environmental Institute who was working in Manila at the time, said those images of destruction have remained with him through the years.  “This massive disaster reshaped my conception of what level of destruction typhoons are capable of,” recalled Soriano, whose recent paper, published in npj Climate Action, examines how high-level public discourse in the media and elsewhere percolated down to communities that were directly affected by Typhoon Haiyan.