Natalie Donback

2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Jessica Bateman |Natalie Donback

In 2020, Sümbül Tarakçilar’s 40-year-old brother Ali died in Hamburg after a long battle with ill health. Most of his relatives have been buried in their native Turkey, but Ali — whose family preferred not to use his real name — was clear in the weeks before his death that he wanted to be laid to rest in Germany, the country he’d lived in most of his life, where his two young children might visit him regularly.

Jan 8, 2025 | hyphenonline.com | Natalie Donback

Police in the Spanish neighbourhood of Raval have warned elderly residents not to go out after 7pm in case they get attacked by migrants. Barcelona’s 9,761 Moroccan men were arrested 10,276 times between them in 2023. These are just two of the alarming claims made by David Santos to his 160,000 YouTube subscribers. They are also both completely false.

Jan 8, 2025 | popsci.com | Natalie Donback

With torrential storms projected to intensify by 7 percent for each 1.8 degree Fahrenheit of warming, predicting precisely when and where such events will happen is key to saving lives and livelihoods.

Jan 3, 2025 | grist.org | Natalie Donback

Every day, meteorologist Hannah Wangari takes the free graphs and maps produced by the five forecasting models she subscribes to and interprets what she sees. “What’s the likelihood of rain in different parts of the country?” she might wonder. “How much of it is likely to fall within the next 24 hours?” Answering such questions quickly and accurately is essential to the potentially life-saving work she and others do at the Kenya Meteorological Department.

Dec 18, 2024 | time.com | Natalie Donback

December 18, 2024 11:12 AM ESTCatastrophic floods have caused death and destruction in recent months, including in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania in September and the Spanish region of Valencia in October, where they claimed more than 220 lives. Experts say floods like these could have been less disastrous if the region counted on more nature-based solutions such as floodable parks or green roofs to absorb and slow down the large masses of water.