After a record 22 billion-dollar disasters in 2020, it's time to make US disaster policy more effective and equitable – here's how
- Written by A.R. Siders, Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
In a year tied for the warmest on record globally, the U.S. was hit with costly hurricanes, wildfires, storms and drought.AP Photo/Noah Berger and Gerald HerbertThe 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...