Research briefs

New research reveals that nearly a fifth of the world’s population lives in a stressed water basin where the next climate change-driven incident could threaten water access.

New research reveals that the Heat Action Plan in Ahmedabad, an Indian city, helped avoid over 1,100 heat-related deaths each year since implementation.

A new framework reveals that the trick to successfully creating and implementing natural solutions lies in uniting various parties in the face of common threats.

Debris flows are increasing in frequency and pose a threat to water quality, as climate change facilitates the soil conditions causing the mudslides.

A new analysis of a 2017 South Korea earthquake suggests that current approaches to reducing the earthquake risk during geothermal energy projects are flawed.

Spanish researchers have developed the Visual Seveif programme, which measures economic losses from forest fires in terms of both tangible and intangible losses.

Computational modeling of social networks suggests that vaccination programs are more successful in containing disease when individuals have access to local information about disease prevalence.

New research reveals that 3,000 small earthquakes between June 2017 and March 2018 in Yellowstone National Park are partly aftershocks of a 1959 quake.

Dutch historical engineering could help the present fight against sea level rise, enriching coastal management strategies.

Pre-fire mitigation work undertaken in Montecito, CA was a crucial factor that helped reduce the number of homes destroyed by a fire in late 2017. A report has taken a closer look at fire adaptation measures and how they affected the outcome of the fire.