For many, 2021 was the year of the flood. From Canada to India, and across western Europe and Australia, this year's deluges have led to hundreds of deaths, enormous financial costs and immeasurable suffering.
Environment
Dec 7, 2021
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When a hurricane is bearing down on a coastal city, emergency management officials are tasked with making life-and-death choices: Do they mandate that people leave the area? Which communities should evacuate, and when?
Environment
Sep 8, 2021
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In the largest U.S. evacuation of the pandemic, more than half a million people were ordered to flee the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam Texas and Louisiana with ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2020
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When Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast in 2017, displaced residents flocked inland, trying to rebuild their lives in the disaster's aftermath. Within decades, the same thing could happen at a much larger scale ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2020
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A new Rice University report released yesterday, exactly six months after Hurricane Ike slammed the Texas Gulf Coast, suggests that people did not practice the lessons learned from Hurricane Rita.
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2009
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