Disasters

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Backgrounder
Haiti’s Troubled Path to Development
November 5, 2025
Cuts to Early Warning Systems Are Leaving the U.S. Unprepared for Summer Floods
July 22, 2025
By Alice C. Hill
Will the Earthquake Affect Politics and War in Myanmar?
April 1, 2025
By Joshua Kurlantzick
Just When Things Couldn’t Possibly Get Worse in Myanmar, They Do
March 28, 2025
By Joshua Kurlantzick
The World Faces a Sharp Rise in Extreme Weather. Can AI Help?
January 24, 2025
By Alice C. Hill and Colin McCormick
After the Fires: How to Rebuild Los Angeles
January 14, 2025
By Alice C. Hill
The L.A. Fires Show the Need for Climate Realism
January 9, 2025
By Varun Sivaram
Backgrounder
Puerto Rico: A U.S. Territory in Crisis
January 8, 2025
Backgrounder
U.S. Disaster Relief at Home and Abroad
October 23, 2024
What Hurricane Milton’s Damage Says About Climate Preparedness
October 16, 2024
By Alice C. Hill
Climate Change and U.S. Property Insurance: A Stormy Mix
August 17, 2023
By Alice C. Hill
Massive Earthquake Could Reshape Turkish and Syrian Politics
February 13, 2023
By Henri J. Barkey
The United States Needs to Prepare for More Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters Like Hurricane Ian
October 4, 2022
By Alice C. Hill
To Fight Climate Change, Countries Must Both Mitigate and Adapt, Argues Alice Hill in New Book
September 1, 2021
Why NOAA Matters for U.S. Climate Policy
August 5, 2021
By Zachary Rosenthal
The World Is Woefully Unprepared for Climate-Driven Natural Disasters
February 22, 2021
By Stewart M. Patrick
The Challenge of Hurricane Response Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
December 15, 2020
By Shivani Persaud
The World Is Unprepared for Climate-Driven Natural Disasters
October 19, 2020
By Stewart M. Patrick
Why U.S. Wildfires Will Only Get Worse
September 16, 2020
By Alice C. Hill and Madeline Babin
California Is a Preview of Climate Change’s Devastation for the Entire World
August 24, 2020
By Stewart M. Patrick
The Coronavirus Challenge for Puerto Rico
May 12, 2020
By Amelia Cheatham
Report
Reducing Disaster Costs by Building Better
April 2, 2020
By Alice C. Hill
Australia’s Fires Will Rage Again. Here’s How the Government Can Prepare.
January 9, 2020
By Alice C. Hill
Down the Hunger Spiral: Pathways to the Disintegration of the Global Food System
October 3, 2019
By Guest Blogger for the Internationalist