Christopher Flavelle, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Nearly one week after hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico, residents are still trying to get the basics of food, water, gas, and money from banks. Much of the damage done was to electrical wires, fallen trees, and flattened vegetation, in addition to home wooden roofs torn off.

Hurricane Maria may be US preview of climate-fueled migration

by Christopher Flavelle Bloomberg NewsSeptember 27, 2017

WASHINGTON — Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico may offer a preview for Americans of one of the most jarring potential consequences of global warming: the movement of large numbers of people pushed out of their homes by the effects of…