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We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

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may have ended without any landfalling hurricanes, but 23 weather- and climate-related disasters topped one billion dollars ...

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Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Farah Nibbs is an assistant professor of Emergency and ...