Tag: Disaster relief
Home insurance and the unraveling of Florida communities
Zac Taylor, Delft University of Technology
While visiting family in St. Petersburg, Florida, in November 2024, I found myself...
Why FEMA’s disaster relief gets political − especially when hurricane season...
Jennifer Selin, Arizona State University
Rumors and lies about government responses to natural disasters are not new. Politics, misinformation...
Health risks are growing in mountain areas flooded by Hurricane Helene...
Jennifer Horney, University of Delaware
Hurricane Helene’s flooding has subsided, but health risks are growing in hard-hit regions of...
In Texas, price gouging during disasters is illegal – it is...
Elizabeth Brake, Rice University
In Houston, as millions suffered power and water outages, food shortages and subfreezing temperatures, another...
Want to help after hurricanes? Give cash, not diapers
Julia Brooks, Harvard University
Some companies and community groups didn’t wait for Hurricane Florence to make landfall before organizing donation drives.
But as a researcher...
Why Puerto Rico is getting the brunt of ‘donor fatigue’
Why Puerto Rico is getting the brunt of 'donor fatigue'
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3 things I learned from delivering medical aid to a remote...
Asa Oxner Myers, University of South Florida
I belong to a group called Doctors for Puerto Rico.
We have been dispatching medicine and small teams of...
Flood insurance is broken. Here are some ways to fix it
Robert W. Klein, Georgia State University
Hundreds of thousands of Americans whose homes were damaged or destroyed by flooding from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma don’t...
EXPLORING NATURE
What’s wrong with how US and Uganda plan to stop Ebola spreading
Katrine L. Wallace, University of Illinois Chicago
As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to...
