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After a record 22 billion-dollar disasters in 2020, it's time to overhaul US disaster policy – here's how

  • Written by A.R. Siders, Assistant Professor, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
imageIn 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 Herbert

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...

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