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Hurricane Katrina: Don’t Blame Nature
by John Mutter It has been one year since hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans and a sizeable stretch of the Gulf Coast. What made that event a disaster, however, happened well before the storm actually came ashore. With hurricanes, the rule for survival is simple — get out! If you get out you…
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Oceanographer Dwi Susanto Provides a View from his Earthquake Stricken Hometown in Indonesia
Dwi Susanto is a senior staff associate and director of Indonesian research coordination at Lamont-Doherty who specializes in studying tropical ocean circulation. He was visiting Jakarta recently when an earthquake struck his home town on the island of Java. He contributed this report on conditions in Indonesia. Report from Indonesia On Saturday morning May 27,…
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Reducing the Impact of Mother Nature
During live Q&A, expert in natural disasters explains ways to mitigate damage
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Mapping the Risks of Hurricane Disasters
The Natural Disaster Hotspots report released earlier this year showed that the U.S. Gulf Coast is among the world’s most at-risk regions in terms of human mortality and economic loss due to storms like Katrina and Rita. The study, which was produced by researchers from the Center for Hazards and Risk Research, The International Research…
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