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Why is it that five years after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, Puerto Rico’s infrastructure was so unprepared for Hurricane Fiona, a Category 1 storm?
Eleni Myrivili has been tasked with finding ways to help the Greek capital cope with ever-hotter heat waves.
Ya paralizada por la pandemia del coronavirus y la crisis económica resultante, Centroamérica se enfrenta a otra catástrofe: dos feroces huracanes.
Drought conditions are especially bad in California and the Southwest, but drought extends into the Pacific Northwest, Intermountain West, and even the Northern Plains.
In a country that suffered the harshest wildfires in its recorded history just a year ago, the deluge has become another awful milestone.
Signs of the risks posed by increasingly extreme weather to America’s aging infrastructure were cropping up across the country.
The coronavirus pandemic in the US has raged almost uncontrollably for so long that even if millions of people are vaccinated, millions more will still be infected.
A coral reef in Mexico is now insured against hurricanes. A team of locals known as “the Brigade” rushed to repair the devastated corals, piece by piece.
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