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Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don’t most forecasts mention it?
By: Rebecca Hersher | NPR
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — At global climate talks that just wrapped up, one of the few areas of agreement was about the worldwide toll of climate-driven weather disasters. Leaders from… Read More
![In August 2017, the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston was over capacity after floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey inundated the city. This hurricane season, congregate shelters — from school gyms to vast convention centers — risk becoming infection hot spots if evacuees pack into them as they have in the past.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/gettyimages-840577266-dbd5f3c56d74e8aba926026b0026c2dc78b0c183-scaled-e1595431348830-900x422.jpg)
U.S. Disaster Response Scrambles To Protect People From Both Hurricanes And COVID-19
By: Abby Wendle | NPR
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Hotel rooms would be “ideal” for housing an overflow of evacuees from shelters practicing social distancing, but few towns have them lined up in the southeast, where coronavirus infections are raging.