Books are both solace and provocation during a pandemic. This novel set during Hurricane Sandy is a poignant, often hilarious, reckoning with catastrophe and mortality.
Articles on Hurricane Sandy
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After Hurricane Sandy, educators in New York City partnered with environmental and governmental organizations to put youth at the centre of preparing for risks and hazards in their school buildings.
From New Orleans to Haiti to Mozambique, global inequality plays a major role in making disasters deadly.
Climate change is making hurricanes more destructive, and may have boosted the intensity of cyclone Idai that hit Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi.
Warning Syrians of approaching airstrikes via social media is helping save lives.
Why can’t meteorologists call the weather correctly every time? Blame the battle of the weather models.
A meteorologist and a music technologist team up to turn the data from tropical storms into musical graphs.
Charitable giving and government aid can shortchange disasters that follow other disasters.
Long after the hurricane’s over and the power comes back, residents can still experience lasting mental health issues.
New research by scholars, conservationists and the insurance industry shows that coastal wetlands provide hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of protection from flooding, boosting the case for protecting them.
Even in areas predicted to take direct hits from hurricanes and other storms, hospitals must do all they can to stay open. It isn’t an easy task, but preparation and practice help.
As the rich move away from disaster-prone areas, the poor may be left behind.
As Atlantic hurricane season opens on June 1, eastern U.S. cities can prepare by updating laws, codes and ordinances that hamper rebuilding after storms.
Hundreds of cities worldwide have pledged to act against climate change. New York City’s experience rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy offers useful lessons about making urban areas more resilient.
When disaster strikes, more people than ever are turning to social media to find out if they’re in danger. But Australian emergency services need to work together more to learn what works to save lives.
Voluntary programs are all the rage. From ratcheting up cybersecurity to fighting obesity, firms in the United States and elsewhere voluntarily make pledges to do better than governmental regulation. Firms…
“I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside” holds true for many Australians who live on or near the coast. On top of the many lifestyle amenities coastal living offers, much of the country’s crucial infrastructure…
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York in 2012, it was a brutal wake up call for the Big Apple. That call should have also been heard by the citizens of every other coastal city and those responsible for…
Wind turbines could provide a front-line defence against cyclones and hurricanes, by slowing damaging winds and reducing storm surges. New modelling, published today in Nature Climate Change, shows large…
Hurricane Sandy may or may not be a direct result of climate change, but what is certain is that the incidence of extreme climate events is increasing. Such events are predicted by climate models, according…
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University Associate, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Public Health, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Michigan
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Professor of Geography, Hunter College
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Professor, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor, Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, University of Miami
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford University
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Professor of Music Technology, Penn State
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Research Associate, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Digital Communications and Culture, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney