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Here’s how our understanding of underwater avalanches is changing.
Insurance companies will need to be innovative and explore new policy options as they manage the growing risk to homes from climate change and natural disasters.
A town hit hard by two hurricanes, downpours and a deep freeze, all in the midst of a pandemic, offers crucial lessons for everyone’s disaster planning and recovery.
Roofs, windows and siding all affect how vulnerable a home is and how likely it is to survive a wildfire. So does what’s around it in the ‘home ignition zone.’
Hardening electric transmission systems and monitoring ocean temperatures are two key priorities.
Many people who survived the catastrophic landslide in PNG are likely to be facing serious injuries and illness, with warnings of a significant risk of disease outbreaks in the country.
Women and gender-diverse people bear the brunt of climate change’s negative affects. If Australia wants to be taken seriously on climate action, this needs addressing.
Papua New Guinea is Australia’s nearest neighbour – but for many, it rarely enters their consciousness. Now is the time to show the PNG people what a good neighbour Australia can be.
Landslides are usually sudden and cause devastation in their wake. Here’s why they are seemingly impossible to predict.
Practices such as redlining left marginalized groups in more disaster-prone areas with poorer quality infrastructure − and more likely to experience prolonged power outages.
A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.
Georgia’s inmate fire crews respond to hundreds of calls in surrounding counties every year. Without them, there might not be a responder, but they aren’t universally loved – and they don’t get paid.
Turning off power is a last-ditch strategy for utilities to reduce the risk that their systems could spark wildfires. In most states, deciding whether to take that step is up to utilities.
Muslims internationally fast during the day in the holy month. But largely-Islamic nations are feeling the effects of climate change, making life harder both during and outside of Ramadan.
A new study offers a rare window into the hidden effects of aggressive fire suppression that go beyond fuel accumulation. The practice may even change the course of forest evolution.
Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree with the vote rejecting it.
Census data and research show all things are not equal in disaster displacement, as 2 experts in disaster recovery explain.
A new study shows how often lightning strikes and how it behaves, often hitting the ground with multiple strikes from the same flash.
This was no ‘natural disaster’. There are lessons to learn from areas that survived the fires.
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Honorary Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney
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Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
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Professor of Climate Science, UMass Lowell
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Director, Security and Resilience Program, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University
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Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Sr. Associate Vice President for Research and Research Professor, University of Oregon
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SNSF-funded Research Professor, University of Bern
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
