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For businesses, natural disaster planning could help pandemic response

October 19, 2020

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The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have battered many small- and medium-sized enterprises, putting millions of jobs in the U.S. at risk. And a year rife with natural disasters (2020) has not helped already struggling businesses.

More than $43 million in coastal resilience grants announced

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One of the grants will complete the design and implementation for a breakwater and coastal marsh in Mobile Bay, on the east side of the Dauphin Island Causeway (above), in Alabama. It will also create and protect critical coastal marsh habitat and reduce the vulnerability of the only emergency and hurricane evacuation route between the mainland of south Mobile County and Dauphin Island.

Secretary of Commerce allocates $65 million for fishery disasters

February 27, 2020

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recreational fishing

A fishing boat and crew working in waters off the U.S. Atlantic coastline

After landfall: 4 ways NOAA is helping your community recover from Florence

September 20, 2018

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response and restoration

A NOAA navigation response team from New London, CT, surveys the Port of Morehead City, NC, after Hurricane Florence. Photo taken September 19, 2018.

2017 was 3rd warmest year on record for U.S.

January 8, 2018

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climate analyses and statistics

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A massive wildfire badly burned this property in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, Calif. Photo captured on October 9, 2017.

NCDC releases 2012 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters information

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Louisiana flooding: NOAA collecting aerial images for damage assessment

August 17, 2016

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Flooding in Denham Springs, LA on August 14, 2016.

U.S. experienced at least 8 billion-dollar disasters so far this year

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climate impacts

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Hail is product of severe thunderstorms and was responsible for causing widespread damage to homes, businesses and agricultural crops across many parts of Texas in March and April 2016.

U.S. saw 10 billion-dollar disasters in 2015

January 7, 2016

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DISASTER AREAS: The locations and types of weather and climate disasters seen in the United States in 2015 that each exceeded $1 billion in losses.