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By Stanley Dambroski
After hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research to investigate the broad impacts of these disasters. A year later, some of the researchers funded by awards from the agency'…
By Ashley Williams
From earthquakes and tornadoes to hurricanes and flooding, residents of the United States are no strangers to destructive and often deadly natural disasters.
These powerful phenomena not only threaten lives, but also result in billions of dollars in damage annually, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
Scientist…
By Matt Rosenberg
What are tsunamis?
Tsunamis are large ocean waves generated by major earthquakes beneath the ocean floor or major landslides into the ocean. Tsunamis caused by nearby earthquakes may reach the coast within minutes. When the waves enter shallow water, they may rise to several feet or, in rare cases, tens of feet, striking the coa…
By Oliver Milman
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The era of climate migration is, virtually unheralded, already upon America.
The population shift gathering pace is so sprawling that it may rival anything in US history. “Including all climate impacts it isn’t too far-fetched to imagine something twice as large as the Dustbowl,” said Jesse Keenan, a climate adaptation expert a…
By Eric Klinenberg
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Social infrastructure is a new concept, but it is just as concrete and vital as the roads and pipes and cables that deliver power, water and transportation. Social infrastructure includes public places such as libraries, parks, playgrounds and schools that are government supported and accessible to everyone. It also inclu…
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Bill Whitaker: The Dutch allocate more than a billion dollars a year to manage their flood infrastructure. Some of it is massive, like the Maeslantkering storm surge barrier.
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The gates guard one of the largest ports in the world and most of the Dutch population. They don't have hurricanes like we do, but ferocious storms with hur…
By Brian J. Gerber, Associate Professor of Public Service and Community Solutions and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Arizona State University; and Melanie Gall, College Professor and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security and College Professor, Arizona State University
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By Matt Weiser
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The major cities of the Southwest – Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Las Vegas – currently get most of their freshwater from the Colorado River or its tributaries. That river, however, is experiencing its 19th straight drought year, suggesting a new permanent dry state is gripping the giant watershed.
As a result, gro…
By Adam Gabbatt and Oliver Laughland
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Lumberton, like the coastal cities of Wilmington and Jacksonville, has been hit hard by Florence. The Lumber river, which flows south through North Carolina, flooded during Hurricane Matthew two years ago, causing hundreds to lose their homes. More than a third of people in Lumberton…
By Patrick Rucker
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After Matthew, the [Walker] family bought flood insurance and felt protected when the waters touched their doorstep again during Hurricane Florence.
But they are a rarity. Only about 1 percent of homes in North Carolina's inland counties are insured through the national flood insurance program, according to federal data, compa…
By Frank Kanawha Lake
Across North America, many communities seek to live more safely with wildland fire; some call that working to become a fire adapted community. Many American Indian tribes were historically able to live within fire-prone ecosystems, but rather than just being fire adapted, they were and still are fire dependent cultu…
By Zadie Neufville
In one of Belize’s forest reserves in the Maya Golden Landscape, a group of farmers is working with non-governmental organisations to mitigate and build resilience to climate change with a unique agroforestry project.
The Ya’axché Conservation Trust helps farmers to establish traditional tree crops, like the cacao, th…
Nicola Allen is a woman with sparkling eyes and an energetic smile, but her face turns somber when she thinks back on September 6 of last year, the day Irma, a category five hurricane, wrecked her country. Her house flooded, she lost all her belongings including her furniture and she ‘was very, very scared’ for her five-month-old son and 10-year-ol…
By Jessica Sieff
Extreme heat poses a unique challenge to cities in the United States. According to the National Weather Service, extreme heat accounts for 20 percent of deaths by natural hazard in the United States, taking an average of 130 lives per year.
With exploding urban populations and increasing migration, cities are struggling to keep u…
Desenvolver uma cultura de prevenção não só no âmbito escolar como em toda a cidade. Esse é um dos objetivos do projeto ‘Escolas Seguras – Desenvolvendo a Resiliência Através da Educação’, uma parceria entre a Subsecretaria de Proteção e Defesa Civil de Nova Iguaçu e a Secretaria de Educação, que realizou nesta sexta-feira (31), um exercício simulado de…