Tag: Disaster response
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...
The aftermath of floods, hurricanes and other disasters can be hardest...
Lori Hunter, University of Colorado Boulder
Hurricanes, tornadoes and other extreme weather do not distinguish between urban and rural...
Low-income homeowners hit by disasters may get less help from the...
Ivis García, Texas A&M University
Imagine that a hurricane has destroyed your home.
The roof is...
If FEMA didn’t exist, could states handle the disaster response alone?
Ming Xie, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Imagine a world in which a hurricane devastates the Gulf Coast, and...
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...
Want to help Maui’s animals after the wildfires? Send cash, not kibble
Sarah DeYoung, University of Delaware
An estimated 3,000 pets were still missing more than a week after deadly wildfires...
What the world would lose with the demise of Twitter: Valuable...
Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University
What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security...
4 tips for selecting charities after disasters like Hurricane Dorian
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Hurricane Dorian’s destruction in the Bahamas, North Carolina and up the Atlantic coast provides a terrible...
EXPLORING NATURE
5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country...
Neha Gour, George Mason University; Ed Maibach, George Mason University, and Luis Ortiz, George Mason University
Every internet search,...
