A warning to listeners before we start the show.

This episode includes details of domestic violence and femicide, so please take care

while listening.

If you need help, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233

or text the word start to 8-8-788.

In recent years, we've seen more and more catastrophic effects of climate change, from

severe flooding to drought to landslides, and we talk a lot about the lives lost in these

events, the homes and businesses destroyed.

But there's another type of problem that can arise after this kind of devastation.

Every time we see a blackout, a shutdown, COVID, right, where people are trapped, where

stress is through the roof, we see spikes in domestic violence, we see more women, and

it is still predominantly women, seeking safe haven in the shelters.

Eva Rodriguez is the Editor-in-Chief of the Fuller Project, a global independent nonprofit

newsroom that reports on issues affecting women around the world.

She and her team partnered with the Post to look at how extreme weather increases cases

of domestic violence.

She says it's often a few weeks after a crisis hits, that there's an uptick in calls for help.

Because it then is clear that you can't go back to work, you can't go back into your

home, the stress just shoots up, and then you see the lashing out, and women in

particular reaching out for help.

From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Elahe Izadi.

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