Weathering Storms Around the World
The scale and scope of Hurricane Milton’s destructive path is overwhelming. Communities along Florida’s west and east coasts, as well as Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, are just beginning to assess the damage. This event comes on top of the widespread damage of Hurricane Helene and its mounting death toll across North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina.
In just the past few months we have also witnessed the effects of Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar and extensive flooding in Nigeria, Sudan, and Nepal. To all those impacted, AGU’s global community of Earth and space scientists extends our strength and support.
We are grateful for the countless first responders, rescue crews, maintenance teams, and aid associations that will, in the coming days and weeks, offer desperately needed services. We also recognize and are thankful for the critical work of frontline scientists applying their expertise and research to bolster storm preparedness for vulnerable communities.
There are many ways we can help too. Below are links to organizations actively mobilizing and in need of support and resources:
Just as we come together to help and heal in the days after these horrific events, we need deep commitment and broad partnership every day to address climate change. Storms have become more powerful and potent and will continue to do so in the future.
As AGU states in its climate change position statement,
“Addressing the destructive consequences of climate change requires that governments, industry, the financial sector, academia, and other organizations advance transformative mitigation and adaptation actions simultaneously.”
AGU is committed to addressing climate change on all fronts. Whether we are advising policymakers, building grassroots coalitions through our community science programs, engaging with the United Nations, global NGOs, and our geoscience partners, or publishing leading edge data and research in our journals, we know this is a long term challenge that needs us, needs our science, our ideas, our passions, our discoveries, and our solutions.
Let us work together not just to help communities rebuild but to build a stronger, more resilient future for our planet.
