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As AI tools play an expanding role in high-stakes hazard modeling, researchers at Rice University say an essential question remains: Do AI-generated storms behave realistically?
The Natural Disaster Resilience dashboard from Rice University compares combinations of demographics and disasters to show impacts over time and provides evidence that policy and regulation need to prioritize infrastructure resilience.
Over the past two decades, Haiti has endured the devastation of two catastrophic earthquakes - first in 2010 and again in 2021. Marc-Ansy Laguerre, a postdoctoral associate in civil and environmental engineering, is determined to change that.
Over 40 years, FEMA has declared 52 disasters in Greater Houston, over a third since 2015. In 2024, severe storms, including a May derecho and Hurricane Beryl, hit within months. The Kinder Institute surveyed 5,000+ residents to assess the overall impact.
This interactive map allows people to see what facilities dealing with substances hazardous to public health are in the path of the storm," said CFAR co-director Dominic Boyer, a professor of anthropology at Rice.
Even after suffering flood damage, homeowners in mostly white communities prefer to accept higher risk of disaster repeating itself than relocate to areas with more racial diversity and less flood risk, according to new research from Rice University.
Rice researchers also examine political consequences of climate-related events.
Increased flooding in the U.S. is exposing more people to industrial pollution, especially in racially marginalized urban communities, according to new research from Rice University, New York University and Brown University.
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