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September 20, 2017
Harvey and Irma's lingering health threats
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma caused immediate widespread damage from winds and flooding in Texas and Florida, but experts are now warning of longer-term health risks.“We’ll be watching for skin infections from people who have had direct contact with floodwaters, especially if they’ve had open wounds," fellow Peter Hotez said in an interview with Vox.
September 19, 2017
Houstonians worry about relatives in Mexico City, Puerto Rico
Mexico Center director Tony Payan is quoted in an article about the concerns of relatives and friends following a major earthquake in Mexico and Hurricane Maria’s devastating impact on Puerto Rico.
Read more September 11, 2017
Harvey’s next danger: Massive mosquito clouds
As flood waters from Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey continue to recede, they are leaving behind pools of standing water — prime breeding ground for billions of mosquitoes. Fellow Peter Hotez discusses what this could mean in terms of mosquito-borne illnesses throughout the affected region in an interview with the Smithsonian Magazine.
September 11, 2017
Space tourism as a way to test rocket technology?
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Blue Origin — a U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company — believes space tourism could be an effective avenue for testing out and advancing reusable spaceflight architecture, and as a way to slash the costs of launching objects beyond Earth’s atmosphere. George Abbey, senior fellow in space policy, explains why he disagrees with this view in an interview with Inverse.
August 21, 2017
First round of NAFTA renegotiations ends: What next?
On Sunday, negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico concluded the first round of talks aimed at overhauling the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Tony Payan, director of the Mexico Center, was interviewed by CGTN on NAFTA's global impact and what this first step in the renegotiation process could signal.