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Health Care December 17, 2024

Helicopters Rescued Patients in ‘Apocalyptic’ Flood. Other Hospitals Are at Risk, Too.

This article by Lauren Sausser and Holly K. Hacker first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Lauren Sausser and Holly K. Hacker December 16, 2024 ERWIN, Tenn. —…

Drawing of houses and water with hurricanes winds

Climate and Weather October 26, 2024

Evacuating in disasters like Hurricane Milton isn’t simple – there are reasons people stay in harm’s way

by Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, University of Colorado Boulder, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As Hurricane Milton roared ashore near Sarasota, Florida, tens of thousands of people…

Climate and Weather October 8, 2024

Why are so many historically rare storms hitting the Carolinas? Geography puts these states at risk, and climate change is loading the dice

by Russ Schumacher, Colorado State University and Kathie Dello, North Carolina State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Hurricane Helene caused deadly and destructive flooding…

Climate August 15, 2024

How back-to-back hurricanes set off a year of compounding disasters for one city − and alarm bells about risks in a warming world

by Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything….

NOAA map of Hurricane Beryl's trajectory

Climate July 8, 2024

Hurricane Beryl’s rapid intensification, Category 5 winds so early in a season were alarming: Here’s why more tropical storms are exploding in strength

by Brian Tang, University at Albany, State University of New York, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Hurricane Beryl was the latest Atlantic storm to rapidly…

Palm trees bending under hurricane winds

Climate change November 25, 2022

Dreaming of beachfront real estate? Much of Florida’s coast is at risk of storm erosion that can cause homes to collapse, as Daytona just saw

by Zhong-Ren Peng, University of Florida [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Back-to-back hurricanes left an unnerving scene on the Florida coast in November 2022: Several…

Climate and Weather May 18, 2022

Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a fueler of monster storms, is looking a lot like it did in 2005, the year of Katrina

Nick Shay, University of Miami [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is already…

Missing Persons January 30, 2025

Mattie’s Call: Cobb police seek missing 87-year-old man

Photo of John Elmer Eaton, 87, courtesy of the Cobb County Police Department The Cobb County Police Department distributed the following appeal to the public: The Cobb County Police Department…

Science and Technology January 30, 2025

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

by Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch; Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Guillaume Cabanac, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with…

Labor January 30, 2025

Philly Whole Foods store becomes first to unionize – a labor expert explains what’s next and how Trump could stall workers’ efforts

by Paul F. Clark, Penn State, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Whole Foods workers at the Philadelphia flagship store in the city’s Art Museum area…

Science and Technology January 30, 2025

Problematic Paper Screener: Trawling for fraud in the scientific literature

by Guillaume Cabanac, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse; Cyril Labbé, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and Frederik Joelving, Retraction Watch, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with…

Georgia January 30, 2025

Handful of rural Georgia Republicans join with Dems to give full Medicaid expansion another go

by Jill Nolin, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] January 29, 2025 A handful of Senate Republicans from rural Georgia have signed onto…

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