Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The peak transmission period for West Nile currently lasts about three months per year in Miami, but would likely increase to about five months. Flooding from extreme storms like hurricanes will also become more frequent. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 9, 2025

Layoffs last week at NOAAs Office of Aircraft Operations, home of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, threaten to reduce the quality of data critical for hurricane monitoring, prediction, and warning. Hurricane Hunters fly into active storms to collect data used for weather forecasts.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 2, 2025

But it’ll also fall on state and local governments. Among the 500 most populous counties, these are the 20 where First Street expects the highest 30-year growth in home insurance premiums: Orleans Parish, Louisiana: +634% Miami-Dade County, Florida: +590% Pinellas County, Florida: +451% St. In fact, 12 of the 20 major U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go. He has honed his skill set specifically to assist government and public safety officials during inclement weather and feels discouraged at the thought that he might end up in a role with a narrower focus, as might be the case if he worked as a forecaster for a private company.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

Last September, as Hurricane Helene barreled toward the coast of Florida, Andrew Hazelton was in a plane flying into the eye of the storm. At the end of February, Hazelton became one of hundreds of NOAA employees to lose his job through cuts pushed by DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. As a result, the U.S.

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump had tweeted — quoting a former Miami police chief who, in 1967, called for a violent crackdown on the city’s black community. Zuckerberg said that Facebook left the post up for two reasons: one, that “people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force.” Governing. ?

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