Tag: Natural disasters
Don’t blame California wildfires on a ‘perfect storm’ of weather events
Gregory L Simon, University of Colorado Denver
Late evening on Oct. 8, a series of fires ignited in Northern California’s famous Wine Country region. The...
California needs to rethink urban fire risk after wine country tragedy
Max Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
We recently witnessed the wind-driven Tubbs fire blast its way through densely urbanized neighborhoods in Northern California, causing dozens...
Scientist at work: Measuring public health impacts after disasters
Scientist at work: Measuring public health impacts after disasters
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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...
Why Hurricanes Harvey and Irma won’t lead to action on climate...
Scott Gabriel Knowles, Drexel University
It’s not easy to hold the nation’s attention for long, but three solid weeks of record-smashing hurricanes directly affecting multiple...
Hurricanes drive immigration to the US
Dean Yang, University of Michigan and Parag Mahajan, University of Michigan
In the last few weeks, hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Katia have cut paths of...
Why social media apps should be in your disaster kit
Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University and Courtney M. Page, Northeastern University
With floodwaters at four feet and rising, a family in Houston, Texas abandoned their...
Are catastrophic disasters striking more often?
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
No sooner had Hurricane Harvey’s record rains receded from Houston and neighboring cities than the residents of Florida...
EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
