Tag: Natural disasters
In fire-prone California, many residents can’t afford wildfire insurance
Gireesh Shrimali, Stanford University
California’s relatively quiet 2019 fire season ended in October. Just days after Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to half a...
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...
Why are Atlantic and Gulf coast property owners building back bigger...
Eli Lazarus, University of Southampton and Evan B. Goldstein, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
U.S. coastal counties are densely populated and extensively developed. They...
How rural areas like Florida’s Panhandle can become more hurricane-ready
Eren Erman Ozguven, Florida State University
When Hurricane Michael roared onto northwest Florida’s Gulf Coast in October 2018, its 160 mile-per-hour winds made it the...
Planned burns can reduce wildfire risks, but expanding use of...
Courtney Schultz, Colorado State University; Cassandra Moseley, University of Oregon, and Heidi Huber-Stearns, University of Oregon
As spring settles in across the United States, western...
How fierce fall and winter winds help fuel California fires
Faith Kearns, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Max Moritz, University of California, Santa Barbara
It doesn’t take long in California...
Relaxed environmental regulations heighten risk during natural disasters
Brian J. Gerber, Arizona State University and Melanie Gall, Arizona State University
Heavy rains following Hurricane Florence have raised concerns over the release of toxic...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
