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How church volunteers are preparing for the next natural disaster

Chattanooga Times Free Press

Wyatt Massey

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27 August 2019

Decatur, Alabama, United States

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Rather than wait for disaster to strike, a network of churches across the Southern United States brings volunteers together to pack buckets with the essentials to prepare for families whose homes have been damaged by ...

Buried lines helping prevent outages during Carolina hurricanes

Carolina Public Press

John Sharpe

26 July 2019

North Carolina, United States

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Coastal cities across South and North Carolina are considering the benefits of underground power lines. With hurricane winds doing major damage to above-ground lines, buried lines often go unharmed, leaving residents ...

How Dutch stormwater management could mitigate damage from hurricanes

CBS News

Nichole Marks

21 July 2019

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Broadcast TV News

5-15 Minutes

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Designing room for rivers and coastlines can mitigate catastrophe. Following a massive flood in 1953, the Dutch government reallocated its resources toward disaster prevention and mitigation. Through measures like bui...

New York is building a wall to hold back the ocean

Vox

Kimberly Mas

Diana Budds

11 June 2019

New York City, New York, United States

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Resilient infrastructure is one way to prepare cities for the unpredictable effects of climate change. In Staten Island, which was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, officials have secured millions in funding to build a s...

Women lead the way in disaster preparedness, recovery in Odisha's Ganjam

Mongabay

Sahana Ghosh

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3 June 2019

Ganjam, Odisha, India

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A group of women in the state of Odisha, India works as the district's disaster responders in an area that has seen a record number of monsoons and other tropical storms. The women, many of whom live in the region's m...

Across the U.S., flood survivors are growing in number — and they aren't just seeking restitution, but answers

Ensia

Laurie Mazur

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23 April 2019

De Soto, Missouri, United States

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Connecting residents affected by flooding to networks of expertise turns victims into activists. In De Soto, Missouri, the Citizen’s Committee for Flood Relief found support from Higher Ground, a nonprofit organizatio...

A women's squad in Odisha defends its forest for 20 years

Mongabay

Sahana Ghosh

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21 March 2019

Gundalba, Odisha, India

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Biodiversity and forest cover in Gundalba rebounded after a women-led group started using whistles and rotational patrols to scare away timber smugglers and woodcutters. The group also helped neighboring villages coor...

A New York City Park Built to Weather a Storm

Pacific Standard

Karim Doumar

1 November 2018

New York, New York, United States

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Hunters Point South Park, a newly built park in Queens, NY, is functioning as a community space even before the addition of low- and middle- income housing slated for the area. But even more than that, the park has al...

How an Expanding Park in Queens Can Withstand Any Storm

CityLab

Karim Doumar

24 October 2018

Queens, New York, United States

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In Queens, New York an industrial site along the East River has been transformed into an 11-acre park that offers quiet greenspace and recreation opportunities, but is also designed to withstand storms and tidal surge...

Houston Looks for a Smarter, More Equitable Path to Hurricane Recovery

CityLab

Linda Poon

22 October 2018

Houston, Texas, United States

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The city of Houston is changing its approach to measuring the full scope of damage from Hurricane Harvey so it can get help where it is most needed and improve future flood mitigation. Using data from numerous sources...

Houses intact after Hurricane Michael were often saved by low-cost reinforcements

Washington Post

Patricia Sullivan

17 October 2018

Blountstown, Florida, United States

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Small, cost-effective improvements to home construction were often the difference between houses that suffered small amounts of damage from Florida hurricanes and those that were destroyed. Knowing to ask for extra na...

How Facebook's Disaster Maps is helping aid organizations serve people affected by Florence

FastCompany

Ben Paynter

24 September 2018

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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To better position services during and after natural disasters, many nonprofits are turning towards mapping technology. Specifically, Facebook’s Disaster Maps share usage data to indicate movement, such as where peopl...

On Hurricane Maria Anniversary, Puerto Rico Is Still in Ruins

The New York Times

Frances Robles

Jugal K. Patel

20 September 2018

Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico, United States

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FEMA’s response to Puerto Rico post-Hurricane Irma has been the “longest sustained domestic airborne food and water mission in the nation’s history. The agency has never distributed more food or installed more generat...

Florida Community Land Trust Makes Affordable Housing Part of Hurricane Recovery

Next City

Emily Nonko

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5 September 2018

Florida, United States

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A community land trust is helping people in the Keys find another home, after Hurricane Irma ravished the area. “Four cottages are expected to wrap construction this fall, with another five finished by early 2019.” Th...

These Cottages Were Built to Defy Storms—and Pricey Rent—in the Florida Keys

CityLab

Nicole Javorsky

27 August 2018

Florida, United States

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Affordable housing for Florida Keys residents is often vulnerable to damage or destruction by extreme weather. The Monroe County Land Trust has created housing that is both affordable for county residents and built to...

3,000 Rohingya refugees train to tackle natural disasters

Devex

Kelli Rogers

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2 August 2018

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

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Bangladesh has become a leader in disaster preparedness through its strategy of training thousands of community members to give early warnings on cyclones and other disasters. This approach has saved thousands of live...

In a Puerto Rico neighborhood still waiting for power, this community kitchen is like ‘therapy'

Public Radio International (PRI)

Irina Zhorov

7 June 2018

Puerto Rico

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In Puerto Rico, a group of older women came together to cook meals inside a community kitchen. So far, it’s fed hundreds of people in Puerto Rico, and has brought the women together. ““This is like a therapy for us.”

Working with Dark Light: Puerto Rican artists are healing the spirits that Hurricane Maria broke

Washington Post

Samuel Granados

28 February 2018

San Juan, Puerto Rico

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In the wake of Hurricane Maria, artists are putting on performances of all kinds in traditional and non-traditional spaces. These performances provide entertainment; express pain, loss, and anger; satirize and critiqu...

How Boston's Airport Bounced Back From the Storm That Crippled J.F.K.

The New York Times

Patrick McGeehan

27 February 2018

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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When the same winter storm hit two airports only 200 miles apart from one another, the locations had very different reactions that resulted in functionality for one, and complete shutdown for the other. What can Kenne...

It turns out vodka and icy roads can be a good mix

The Boston Globe

Matt Rocheleau

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30 January 2018

United States

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Although alcohol and driving don't typically go hand-in-hand, researchers found one way to successfully and safely combine the two. By taking the by-products of the distilling process and combining them with the typic...

My Perfect Country: Cuba

BBC

Fi Glover

17 January 2018

Cuba

Radio

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Following a devastating hurricane in the early 1960s, Cuba created a model disaster preparedness infrastructure that includes excellent forecasting, education in schools and promoting a culture of nationwide training ...

Cuba: Hurricane preparation

BBC

Fi Glover

Henrietta Moore

Martha Lane Fox

16 January 2018

Cuba

Radio

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Cuba has one of the world’s lowest storm fatality rates in part because citizens learn how to prepare and respond to hurricanes beginning in elementary school. Children know where to go in an evacuation, neighbors ope...

Officials patched and prayed while pressure built on Houston's dams

Houston Chronicle

Mihir Zaveri

15 December 2017

Houston, Texas, United States

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Following Hurricane Harvey, Houston officials are taking steps to better prepare the city for flooding. Two damns, Addicks and Barker, have long been in need of repairs to increase their capacity and resilience, and a...

Harvey overwhelmed some levee systems. Future storms could do worse.

Houston Chronicle

Emily Foxhall

14 December 2017

Houston, Texas, United States

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The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey left many Houston residents questioning the efficacy of one of the city’s only protections, the Levee Improvement Districts (LID), responsible for providing flood protection. In neigh...

Yachters Are Sailing to the Rescue of Hurricane-Ravaged Islands

News Deeply

Erica Cirino

16 November 2017

Anguilla

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The 2017 hurricane season resulted in damage to the Caribbean. YachtAid and Superyacht Aid Coalition are comprised of people who volunteer their yachts to bring supplies and aid to these damaged regions.

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