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How Americans Think the Government Should Respond to Natural Disasters, According to Recent Polls
Most U.S. adults who've experienced major flooding in the past five years think climate change was at least a partial cause ...
Texas floods are a climate crisis warning
We can double down on denial and let superstorms, heatwaves, droughts, floods and fires determine our fate. Or we can lead — ...
Texas Flooding, and Politics Around It, Underscore the Challenges Trump Faces in Replacing FEMA
Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin phasing out the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this ...
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Texas floods prompt new disaster reckoning in Congress
The catastrophic flooding that ravaged central Texas and killed more than 100 people in recent days represents the first ...
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Fema - The Agency That Responds To Disasters
Want to know more about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)? FEMA is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security, and is tasked with coordinating responses to disasters ...
Searchers in helicopters and on horseback scour Texas flood debris for the missing
The search is continuing for more than 160 people believed to be missing in Texas days after a destructive wall of water ...
The US faces more frequent extreme weather events, but attitudes and actions aren't keeping up
After deadly flooding in central Texas in 1987, some thought they’d proven they could handle Mother Nature’s best punch. Then ...
Do we have to take climate risks into our own hands now?
He says that there are still big gaps in the research about exactly how home hardening fits into the puzzle of resilience, ...
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Painful flaws in Karoline Leavitt's Texas tragedy response exposed in analysis
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is in a state of constant outrage, attacking the mainstream media relentlessly for, she claims, having it in for President Donald Trump and his ...