How to prepare for a huge disaster when you live in a tiny apartment
It often feels like we’re on the brink of disaster: Diseases lurk behind every corner and global instability threatens the ...
Tag: Natural Disasters
Levees can no longer save New Orleans
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The exploding costs of fighting US wildfires
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Scientists have found another alarming pattern in wildfires
The extreme heat, high winds, and severe dry conditions that produce towering, fast-moving flames that advance by the acre are ...
In America, surviving a disaster increasingly depends on what you can afford
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The best way to help Hurricane Melissa survivors may not be what you think
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3 things about Hurricane Melissa that make it so unusual and dangerous
Hurricane Melissa, already one of the strongest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba on Wednesday morning as a Category ...
20 years after Katrina, New Orleans is back where it started
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Erin may be the first real test of America’s hurricane readiness under Trump
The peak of the hurricane season is upon us and forecasters are still anticipating higher than normal levels of activity, ...
The health risks from climate change that almost no one talks about
This story is a collaboration between Vox and Grist and builds on Expecting worse: Giving birth on a planet in ...
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