Tagged Natural disasters

Natural disasters

Efforts to rebuild after catastrophic storms should consider future resilience

West Side Story

Sep 14, 2017

Environment, Opinion, Policy, Science

As the southeastern US withstands another taxing hurricane season with several record-breaking storms, it’s time start asking the question once again: What should recovery really mean? With so-called “100-year”...

Hurricane Matthew threatens to make Florida landfall as Category 4 hurricane, climate scientists predict increasingly destructive storms

West Side Story

Oct 6, 2016

Environment, Science, World

Evacuations began throughout the southeastern coast of the US on Wednesday, under the threat of a direct hit from a massive hurricane, the first to make landfall there in a decade. Hurricane Matthew is already ...