Disaster risk communication

Operation of a new system of "disaster prevention weather information" reorganizing warnings and advisories for hazards in Japan began May 28.

Some of the same ecological changes fueling Maine’s winter tick boom are also making tick encounters more common in broad swaths of the U.S.

Adaptation is not a substitute for mitigation. Cutting emissions remains indispensable to preventing the worst outcomes of climate change. Even if we succeed in limiting warming to 1.5°C, we will still face more floods, heatwaves, and ecosystem losses.

Climate science and adaptation strategies can only make an impact in the real world, when people can understand and act upon them.

The farmer’s phone had vibrated just an hour earlier – a community alert of heavy rainfall expected within 48 hours. These messages now arrive regularly.

The inland extent of watches and warnings will now be included, and an experimental cone will capture more areas at risk.

This publication explores how generative language models combine social media, news and weather data to detect disasters quickly and accurately, using satellite data to validate results from flood and wildfire case studies.