Shortly after Hurricane Dorian devastated The Bahamas, I was afforded the opportunity to travel to both Grand Bahama and Abaco Islands to view the devastation firsthand. As a 15-time hurricane author and a 31-year professional Bahamian meteorologist, I have seen quite a bit of devastation from hurricanes in my lifetime. Still, nothing could have prepared …
An excerpt from the award-winning memoir, The Water Has Come. The settlements in the east were under the gun. Dorian was firing more shots at them than they could dodge. Many were hit—men, women, boys, and girls—and washed out to sea in the wee hours of the morning as we slept. But who should be …
For over 15 years, Dr. Adelle Thomas, a Bahamian human-environment geographer, has worked at the intersections of climate change adaptation, disaster risk management and sustainable development. Thomas is Senior Fellow of the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Research Centre at University of The Bahamas and Senior Caribbean Research Associate with Climate Analytics. She researches the …
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