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The year 2020 broke disaster records

After a record 22 billion-dollar disasters in 2020, it’s time to make US disaster policy more effective and equitable – here’s how

The year 2020 broke disaster records across the country in destructive and expensive ways. The Atlantic had so many hurricanes, meteorologists ran out of tropical storm names for only the second time. Across the Midwest, extreme storms flattened crops and tore up buildings. Western states repeatedly broke records for their ...

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Bats struggling to survive in hostile Australia

Bat experts in Australia are appealing to the public to be tolerant of bats, as the numbers of the creatures continue to swell in the urban night skies. For many reasons, bats are not popular creatures. Be it with farmers who suffer crop loss from the nocturnal feasting of these ...

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