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The threat of desertification and land degradation means European countries will have to overhaul their current water management legislations.

The interest in climate-resilient buildings from investors is rising, as they are safer investments thanks to climate risk mitigation.

The so-called 'lead-rubber bearing' base isolation system can make buildings more flexible and therefore resilient to earthquakes.

Archaeological research reveals that the Hohokam, a Native American group, overcame periodic flooding by collectively maintaining an extensive system of canals with collaborative labour. But the Hohokam's experience serves as a warning for modern society, as repeated catastrophes and rising populations wore down their social systems, preventing adaptation.

Magnitude alone does not determine how damaging an earthquake will be. A plethora of other factors - including geographic location, shaking intensity, building codes, and population awareness - can also play a part in increasing or mitigating earthquake damages.

Six factors about the public might always create challenges with weather forecasts and warnings no matter how much progress is made: optimism bias, wishcasting, hope, selective memory, unrealistic expectations, and paying attention at the last minute.

A new open AI challenge by the World Bank illustrates the incredible potential of deep learning for humanitarian applications, especially in the critical hours and days after a major natural disaster. This new AI challenge looks to address human assessment capacities by focusing on two initial areas: identifying trees and roads from aerial imagery.

The economic consequences of warning of an eruption that does not happen can be greater than the cost of the eruption if it does occur. The challenge for volcanologists and emergency managers is to make early warning as accurate as possible and to communicate the best estimates of risk effectively to the people at risk.