Hurricanes

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Gender-Based Violence: The Unseen Toll of Hurricanes

The number of women killed in domestic violence incidents doubled after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017

U.S. Voters Disenfranchised by Climate Change

Electoral planning needs to envision increasingly severe extremes that disrupt the casting and counting of ballots

Urbanization

Climate and Health: Global Problems, Local Solutions

For effective approaches to combat climate change, world leaders should look to cities like New York

Environment

Hurricanes, Climate Change, and Cardiovascular Disease

As climate change advances, intense hurricanes disrupt critical services and increase risk of cardiovascular disease

Environment

Puerto Rico—Still Waiting for Power After Hurricane Fiona

A fragile health system, vulnerable elderly, and food insecurity worry University of Puerto Rico's Carmen Vélez Vega

Poverty

Seventeen Years Later, HBO Film "Katrina Babies" Asks Child Hurricane Survivors How They Feel

"In America, especially during disaster, Black children are not even a thought"

Poverty

How Haiti's History Has Hindered Its Disaster Readiness

Broken trust, neoliberal interference, and poverty are to blame says a former reporter who survived the 2010 earthquake

Environment

Hurricanes, Pandemics, Floods, Frail Systems, and Failed Responses

Imagining a post-Harvey, post-Irma, post-Hanna, post-COVID-19 world of pandemics, natural disasters, and U.S. resiliency