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Observing groups of undergraduate students, psychologists noticed differences in behavior when subjects perceived themselves as individuals sharing only physical space with others, as opposed to sharing some sort of social identity.

Over the course of one month, two stampedes in Indonesia and South Korea have caused a staggering loss of life. We must ask ourselves, why are these stampedes happening? And can they be prevented?

Corner stores, day cares, auto mechanics … small businesses provide vital services to communities. But many are vulnerable to increasingly extreme weather as the climate warms.

A global database of deaths from crowd accidents shows more than 1,477 people have lost their lives since 2000 in over 50 disastrous mass gatherings in India (excluding the very recent incident).

Waterspouts form over warm bodies of water (lakes as well as the ocean). Fair-weather waterspouts are thankfully more common and often form from cumulus clouds.

Underwater avalanches are powerful natural events that happen all the time under the surface of the ocean. They are impossible to see and extremely difficult to measure, which means we know little about how they work.

Southern Italy has endured successive heatwaves this summer. Sea surface temperatures around Sicily on the day the Bayesian yacht sunk were reported to have been near 30°C. Warm ocean water is rocket fuel for storms that generate tornadic waterspouts

The plagues of antiquity moved slowly because in those days transportation was far slower. In contrast, with modern air travel plagues can now be very easily transmitted from one end of the world to the other within a day or two.

The Izmit earthquake was pivotal for Turkey, exposing the need for enhanced seismic resilience. For construction, the Turkish government reviewed the enforcement of their building code after the earthquake, which they revised in 2007 and again in 2018.

Launched in 2020, “Sayuru” (which means “Oceans”) is a trilingual service available free of charge for its subscribers. It provides vital weather-related information and early warnings to fishermen, based on their locations.