Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
14 December 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Detroit, a coalition of nonprofits and organizations are coming together to transform buildings into resilience centers. A resilience center is a hub that people can go to for help, especially in moments of a natur...
14 December 2021
Mayfield, Kentucky, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Advances in meteorological technology have helped drive down the fatality rate from tornadoes in the U.S. to a fraction of what it was a century ago. Violent tornadoes rarely evade advance detection, thanks to weather...
2 December 2021
Bangladesh
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 1970 Cyclone Bhola hit Bangladesh. It killed up to 500,000 people. Since then, the country has revamped its emergency disaster preparedness through a multipronged process, reducing its cyclone-related deaths by 100...
19 November 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
From New York City to Texas, localities are using oysters to protect themselves from flooding. They are dropping oysters along the coast for baby oysters to grown on, ultimately leading to the creation of wall-like re...
Mongabay
Keith Anthony S. Fabro
7 October 2021
Philippines
Text
1500-3000 Words
When Typhoon Haiyan hit the island of Busuanga in the western Phillipines it brought imminent destruction. It prompted residents, especially the women of the island, to rehabilitate the mangrove forests. Apart from st...
5 August 2021
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
In many cities, rainwater is drained through "grey infrastructure" things like pipes, streets, etc. In some cities, this system is combined with the sewage system. Rainwater drains into the sewage system, is then cle...
Transitions Online
Zdenka Kovarikova
3 August 2021
Czech Republic
Text
1500-3000 Words
Cervene Pecky and Dolany, two small towns in Prague, were able to fix their flooding problems through a process known as land consolidation. Prior to the land consolidation, the towns would get flooded by rainwater. ...
20 July 2021
Mexico
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Mexico, the Mesoamerican Reef, a 100-mile long coral reef system, the second largest in the word, is insured. The insurance policy is the result of a collaboration between the local government, hotel owners, an in...
BBC
Kamala Thiagarajan
15 June 2021
India
Text
1500-3000 Words
In the South Indian coast, erosion is leading to disappearing beaches. A study found that this erosion was in part due to man-made structures like a harbor that was built in the late 80s, groynes, and seawalls. These ...
5 May 2021
Placencia, Belize
Text
1500-3000 Words
After a hurricane hit the coast of Belize in 2001, it essentially destroyed the coral reefs in Laughing Bird Caye National Park. Lisa Carne wanted to start transplanting coral to regrow the reefs, but it took five yea...
6 April 2021
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Grassroots organizers filled the gap left by local and state governments in the wake of back-to-back winter storms in Mississippi. Community organizers like the People’s Advocacy Institute stepped in to provide basic ...
19 February 2021
New Roads, Louisiana, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Pecan Acres in Louisiana is known as Flood City since many residents can’t remember a time when their homes weren’t impacted by rising waters. To help these people, the state has started a relocation project to move t...
22 December 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As a way to soften the impacts of a future storm, an artificial oyster reef was installed in New York City. This green infrastructure can absorb the shock of waves and decrease the amount of flooding, as well as build...
26 August 2020
Ventakraipur, Odisha, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
Two decades after a massive cyclone killed close to 10,000 people in India's Odisha state, the government's efforts to protect coastal villages vulnerable to cyclones and tsunamis has produced a host of safety measure...
27 May 2020
North Carolina, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Mobilized to help North Carolina’s second-poorest county recover from two major hurricanes over the past four years, the Robeson County Disaster Recovery Coalition pivoted to provide COVID-19 relief and brace for the ...
20 January 2020
Puerto Rico, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
La Maraña, a nonprofit in Puerto Rico, created a model for how communities could recover from disasters like the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in 2017. By including community voices in the design and planning ...
27 August 2019
Decatur, Alabama, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
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 ...
Carolina Public Press
John Sharpe
26 July 2019
North Carolina, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
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 ...
21 July 2019
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
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...
11 June 2019
New York, New York, United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
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...
3 June 2019
Beaufort, North Carolina, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Instead of building hard seawalls to protect communities from hurricanes, some are turning to “living shorelines.” These are made out of crushed rock or oyster shells that are placed offshore in front of a wetland. Th...
3 June 2019
Ganjam, Odisha, India
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
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...
23 April 2019
De Soto, Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
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...
21 March 2019
Gundalba, Odisha, India
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
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...
1 November 2018
New York, New York, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
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...
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