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The tool flagged vulnerable mangrove patches a decade in advance, offering a path toward preventive conservation.
People experiencing homelessness are significantly more susceptible to the health impacts of wildfire smoke compared to those with homes, according to a new study from researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The findings reveal the long term public health burden of environmental hazards that are predicted to worsen under climate change.
Residents of the Cascadia region in British Columbia and the U.S. Pacific Northwest are the focus of an effort to improve NOAA’s tsunami warning system, based on a novel combination of GPS and seismic instruments. The new technology called seismogeodesy can help the highly populated region, which hasn’t experienced a trembler since 1700, better prepare for the “big one.”
Scientists have discovered a new force that drives plate tectonics, plumes of hot magma pushing up from Earth's deep interior, providing evidence that such mantle plume 'hot spots,' which can last for tens of millions of years and are active today at locations such as Hawaii, Iceland and the Galapagos, may work as an additional tectonic driver, along with push-pull forces...
A recent study has found that Southern California's Salton Sea, the accidental vestige of what was once a large natural lake fed by the Colorado River, may play an important role in the earthquake cycle of the southern San Andreas Fault and may have triggered large earthquakes in the past...
Voluntary Commitments
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The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.