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Science and technology

This theme adresses how science and technology can contribute to DRR, including approaches and initiatives to bring scientific and technical knowledge into practice and policy, approaches for multidisciplinary engagement, good practice in scientific and technical aspects of DRR, and citizen science.

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2019-20 Australian Bushfires
Research briefs

Fighting fires from space in record time: How AI could prevent a repeat of Australia’s devastating wildfires

Australian scientists are getting closer to detecting bushfires in record time, thanks to cube satellites with onboard AI now able to detect fires from space 500 times faster than traditional on-ground processing of imagery.
University of South Australia
Hurricane in the Caribbean, palm tree on a beach
Update

With a record-breaking 2024 Atlantic hurricane forecast, here’s how scientists are helping Caribbean communities adapt to a warming world

Dozens of researchers teamed up in 2023 to form the Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network to connect scientists with communities and government agencies in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to provide information to prepare for climate extremes.
Conversation Media Group, the
Event - Disaster Forensics
Update

Disaster forensics: Learning from the past to build a resilient future

Amidst the escalating toll of disasters, the Humanitarian Network and Partnerships Weeks recently convened a session titled "Applied Disaster Forensics: Learn from the past to build a resilient future."
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Rockfall blocks a road followin heavy rain
Update

When stones start rolling

The landslide in Brienz (GR) in 2023 kept Switzerland on tenterhooks for weeks. Researchers from ETH Zurich, WSL and SLF used a model to provide a highly accurate blind prediction of where the sliding mass would come to rest.
ETH Zurich
wave
Update

Italy investigates potential threat of tsunamis

Simulations of underwater earthquakes and landslides in the Ionian Sea found that they could generate tsunami waves as high as 2.5 meters in southern Italy.
Temblor
Update

New tool informs flooding and sea level rise solutions for San Francisco Bay Area

A team of scientists and engineers have created a new computer model that can inform key decision-making and guide flood prevention efforts both now and in the future.
United States Geological Survey
Update

Post breakthrough: How AI can lift climate research out of the lab and into the real world

Technological breakthroughs are not enough. The climate crisis cannot be solved inside a laboratory: impact comes when technological and scientific advances make it into the real world.
World Economic Forum
kīlauea_Hawaii_Sheild_Volcano
Research briefs

Earth scientists describe a new kind of volcanic eruption

The Kīlauea volcano erupted like a stomp-rocket in 2018, new research shows.
University of Oregon

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