2020 So Far: Fires, Floods, And Quakes

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🗓️ 17 January 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Already this year, natural disasters have wreaked havoc in Australia, Indonesia, and Puerto Rico. We look at some science behind the wildfires, floods, and earthquakes in those places with NPR reporters Rebecca Hersher and Jason Beaubien.

You can find more of Jason's reporting on Australia here and follow him on Twitter @jasonbnpr. Follow NPR's Adrian Florido on Twitter @adrianflorido and find his reporting from Puerto Rico here. Rebecca Hersher is @rhersher and here's her story about wildfire embers in Australia.

Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to Shortwave from NPR.
0:04.4	Maddie, survive here with not one, but two of my favorite NPR reporters.
0:09.6	Don't tell everybody else I said that.
0:11.4	Rebecca Herscher, who covers climate and environment on the NPR science desk.
0:15.0	Hey Becky.
0:15.7	Hello.
0:16.3	And Jason Bobian, who covers global health and development on the NPR science desk.
0:20.4	Hey Jason.
0:21.2	Hey, it's good to be here finally.
0:23.1	I know.
0:23.6	Finally I get invited on to the show.
0:25.1	It's about time.
0:25.6	Yeah, it's not that simple.
0:26.5	So you two are here because we are barely a few weeks into 2020 and has already been a
0:31.7	tumultuous one for Mama Earth out there.
0:34.3	Yeah.
0:35.3	Jason, you just got back from Australia.
0:36.8	What struck you about your time there?
0:38.9	Just sort of the scope of this crisis, the fact that it is all over the country that it's
0:43.5	dominating just the people you talk to in the cafe.
0:47.7	It's dominating the air.
0:49.2	It's dominating the politics.
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