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TAMEST Natural Hazards Summit: Responding to and Mitigating the Impacts, the first of a two-part series, was held on October 19, 2021. The summit was hosted by HuRRI at the University of Houston and presented via Zoom.
As we enter the 2021 hurricane season, and reflecting back on the events of this past year, the term “resilience” that is now common in our everyday lexicon takes on a new meaning.
Living near a hazardous waste or Superfund site could cut your life short by about a year, reports HuRRI study published in Nature Communications.

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