The World from PRX

hurricane

An empty shelf in a grocery store.
Natural disasters
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Arts, Culture & Media
Hurricane
Hospitals in the US mainland are facing shortages of IV fluids and medicine because of Hurricane Maria's damage to Puerto Rico.
Medicine
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Then it caused a ripple effect in mainland hospitals.
Floods
Health
For domestic abuse survivors, finding safety amid natural disasters is ‘very complicated’
Veteran Cuban weather forecaster Jose Rubiera is now retired. But when a big storm hits, he returns to his broadcasts, to the relief of many Cubans.
Science
To reassure Cubans, a revered meteorologist returns to the airwaves
Bakers in Houston
Food
Workers trapped by Harvey at a Mexican bakery feed a hungry Houston
The ruins of the town of Valdivia in the southernmost Mexican state of Chiapas. The town was destroyed by a tropical storm in 1998.
Environment
Mexico experiments with adapting to climate change naturally — and on the cheap