PLOS ONE

In this paper, the authors present an interactive web application called Right Place, Right Tree—Boston that aims to support informed decision-making for planting new trees. Heat poses an urgent threat to public health in cities, as the urban heat island

The onset date of the yearly rainy season predicts if seasonal drought will occur in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa that are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity.

This study assesses the dollar benefit of a neighborhood approach intervention on disaster risk reduction in small-sized, densely populated, and hazard-prone informal settlements across Latin American and Caribbean countries. The authors use a life

An analysis of ways to measure a community's vulnerability to climate change suggests that California's current method may leave some at-risk communities behind.

This study identifies pharmacists’ roles in disasters which have been accepted by the international disaster health community. The international key opinion leaders recommended that pharmacists could be undertaking 43 roles in a disaster, however, this is

Helping the world’s coastal communities adapt to climate change impacts requires evaluating the vulnerability of coastal communities and assessing adaptation options. This includes understanding the potential for ‘natural’ infrastructure (ecosystems and

India is expected to experience an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in the coming decades, which poses serious risks to human health and wellbeing in the country. This paper aims to shed light on the possible detrimental