Some Amazon workers across the country are claiming that the company never offered them disaster training, according to The Intercept. The comments came after a tornado ripped through an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, last week, causing the building to partially collapse and killing at least six employees. In the days following the collapse, workers… Continue reading Amazon Workers Claim They Never Received Disaster Planning in the Wake of Tornado Deaths
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Biden Doubles FEMA Program to Prepare for Extreme Weather
The Biden administration said it would spend $1 billion to help communities prepare for worsening disasters, the latest sign of the toll that climate change is already taking across the United States. The change will double the current size of a Federal Emergency Management Agency program that gives money to state and local governments to… Continue reading Biden Doubles FEMA Program to Prepare for Extreme Weather
UN Report Shows Climate Change Causing ‘Dramatic Rise’ in Economic Losses
Climate-related and geophysical disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis have killed 1.3 million people over the last 20 years and left a further 4.4 billion injured, homeless or in need of emergency assistance, UN experts recently reported. The findings, published by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), also show that people in low-… Continue reading UN Report Shows Climate Change Causing ‘Dramatic Rise’ in Economic Losses
Southern Storms Indifferent to the Quarantine
Severe Storms in the South Every year, states in the Deep South face tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods. Depending on their proximity to the Gulf, some states have hurricane season to look forward to as well. 2020 has not been kind to Dixie so far. Tornadoes swept through Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi recently, resulting… Continue reading Southern Storms Indifferent to the Quarantine
Devastating Storms May Spur Action on Disaster Preparation
Hurricane Michael’s devastation could spur policymakers to better prepare vulnerable communities for the effects of climate change. The images of entire towns in Florida’s panhandle all but erased by storm surges, as well as accounts of bodies pulled from shattered homes, offer potent evidence of the need to rethink how and where Americans build homes,… Continue reading Devastating Storms May Spur Action on Disaster Preparation
Businesses Are Urged to Build Resilience to Climate Change Impact: Zurich Insurance
With measures to slash greenhouse gas emissions set to miss their mark, businesses should act now and prepare for a changing climate, according to a report by Zurich Insurance Group. Published ahead of Climate Week NYC, a gathering of investors, governors and CEOs in New York this week, it recommends a three-step strategy to help… Continue reading Businesses Are Urged to Build Resilience to Climate Change Impact: Zurich Insurance
Hurricane Florence Has Gone, But Challenges for the Carolinas Have Just Begun
It will not be easy drying out, fixing up and rethinking whole ways of life in a region drenched and deeply shaken by more than eight trillion gallons of rain. But that is the challenge facing the Carolinas after Hurricane Florence and a wearying week of heroic rescues, hard choices, potential environmental crises — including… Continue reading Hurricane Florence Has Gone, But Challenges for the Carolinas Have Just Begun