Tag: Disaster
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Disaster Looms on the Guadalupe River Floodplain
An epic flood a generation ago drenched areas around Texas’ Guadalupe River, showing how quickly…
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‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain
GONZALES, Texas—More than 500 enormous oil tanks dot the floodplains of the Guadalupe River and…
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Disaster Survivors Want Kristi Noem Out of FEMA
Heather Talley’s life savings are tied up in a Swannanoa, North Carolina, home she can’t…
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An alpine disaster in Switzerland was no freak accident » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: Last May, rocks and earth from a landslide high in the Swiss Alps tumbled…
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Venezuela: US Risks Rights Disaster
(New York) – The Trump administration’s brazen military assault risks causing a new human rights…
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Disaster Survivors Denounce Proposed FEMA Downsizing
Flood, storm and fire survivors gathered in Washington, D.C., Monday to express their alarm over…
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The disaster economy: who benefits, and who pays?
Greenpeace USA and allies from across the globe march down Park Ave/”Billionaires’ Row” during the…
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Bees inspired this new disaster relief system » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: To help communities cope with disasters, a government-funded project in North Carolina is taking…
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Climate Disaster Survivors in the Global South Take Legal Action Against European Carbon Majors
As the fossil fuel industry and its political allies ramp up attempts to shut down…
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Hurricane Melissa hits Cuba after turning Jamaica into ‘disaster area’ | Hurricane Melissa
Hurricane Melissa has torn through the Caribbean, slamming into Cuba while leaving parts of neighbouring…