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Infrastructure and extreme weather expert on recent weather events
Hiba Baroud, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is available for commentary on recent extreme weather events, including hurricanes, tropical storms and flooding. Baroud ...
Feeling the Heat: The Impact of Extreme Heat on Older Adults
Recent forest fires in California, Greece and Australia; unprecedented flooding in Germany and China; extreme heat waves in Canada and the US Pacific Northwest; and ...
Poor and Minority Communities Suffer More from Extreme Heat in U.S. Cities
Low-income neighborhoods and communities with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods within a vast ...
Environmental scientist on heat wave in western U.S.
Jonathan Gilligan, Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University, is available for commentary on the recent heat waves and ...
UC San Diego Experts on Wildfires, Climate Change and More
As California faces wildfire season following drought in much of the state, experts at UC San Diego are available to discuss wildfires, drought, and California ...
Experts explore the gap between research and practice in disaster management
The COVID-19 pandemic has attracted public attention to crisis management globally, writes Aston University's Oscar Rodriguez-Espindola. Although authorities and international organisations are still actively and ...
Gas boiler ban: how to make sure everyone can afford low-carbon heating
Most of us only think about central heating when it stops working or when the fuel bills arrive. So reports of an impending ban on ...
Records are going up in flames - is there any break to America's current heat wave?
To call it a heat wave may be an understatement. But as June ends and July rolls in, a blanket of hot and humid weather ...
Covering the cicadas across America? Let our expert help.
This spring, Americans have been captivated, curious and even bugged out by the trillion cicadas that finally emerged from 17 years underground to enjoy a loud ...
Planting over past mistakes – UMW expert explains that it is time to undo poor urban planning to make our cities cooler
America in the 1950’s was all about building highways to pump up the post-war economy and make sure everyone could criss-cross a connected America by ...