Tag: Hurricanes
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...
Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are...
Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, University of Colorado Boulder
As Hurricane Milton roared ashore near Sarasota, Florida, tens of thousands of people...
‘Cajun Navy’ volunteers who participate in search-and-rescue operations after hurricanes are...
Kyle Breen, Texas A&M International University and J. Carlee Purdum, University of Houston
The volunteers who take part in...
Hurricane Helene power outages leave over 4 million in the dark...
Chuanyi Ji, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott C. Ganz, Georgetown University
Hurricane Helene left more than 4 million...
Tornadoes, wildfires and other disasters tell a story of vulnerability and...
Tricia Wachtendorf, University of Delaware and James Kendra, University of Delaware
People often think of disasters as great equalizers....
Hurricane Hilary triggers Southern California’s first tropical storm warning ever, with...
Nicholas Grondin, University of Tampa
Hurricane Hilary headed for Mexico’s Baja peninsula and was forecast to speed into Southern...
Does the direction water rotates down the drain depend on which...
Francisco José Machín Jiménez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Borja Aguiar González, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Hurricanes push heat deeper into the ocean than scientists realized, boosting...
Noel Gutiérrez Brizuela, University of California, San Diego and Sally Warner, Brandeis University
When a hurricane hits land, the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Why you can salvage moldy cheese but never spoiled meat −...
Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
When you open the refrigerator and find a wedge of cheese flecked with green...
