Tag: Storms
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...
For a flooded Midwest, climate forecasts offer little comfort
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued...
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
Washington DC’s 240 million‑gallon sewage spill is a symptom of nationwide trouble
Marccus D. Hendricks, University of Maryland
When 240 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Potomac River in...
