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Displaying 75 of about 329 resultsIn the fall of 2016, an unusually strong storm hit the coastal Native village of Kipnuk, Alaska, causing ocean water to flood into the community. The storm surge inundated the lowland area where Rayna Paul and her family lived. While they evacuated to the town's school on four-wheelers, a wave slammed into the boardwalks they were driving on, and Paul's…
A wall of flames met David Matear when he finally stepped outside of the downtown Fort McMurray hospital, after the final patient was hurried out of the building and into a waiting bus.“You couldn’t see the trees. You just saw fire,” said Matear, the senior operating director for the health system in northern Alberta at that time.“The fire was right on…
When Rupa Basu was pregnant with her second child, her body temperature felt out of control---particularly as her third trimester began in the summer of 2007. It wasn't particularly hot in Oakland, California, with high temperatures reaching 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Still, she felt uncomfortably warm even as her colleagues and friends were unbothered.As h…
Cost concerns cited as reason to exempt prisons, jailsHeat protection for workers seen lacking across USInmates and prison employees face particular risks[...]Workers in correctional facilities, whether staff such as nurses and security guards or incarcerated people doing maintenance or other jobs, frequently face sweltering conditions in poorly ventila…
Nearly 75 percent of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey-led team of 50+ scientists and engineers.This was one of several key findings from the latest USGS National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM). The model was used to create a color-coded map that pinpoints where damaging earthquakes are most…
Every year, damaging floods strike somewhere around the world, including sometimes in California like during winter 2022-23. Even a house with just a 1% chance of flooding each year (by the so-called “100-year flood”) has a 26% chance of inundation over a 30-year mortgage. Other natural hazards have much lower probabilities, but would bring more catastr…
The Uruguay is not a river, it is a blue sky that travels.This is how the late Uruguayan poet and singer Aníbal Sampayo described the Uruguay River, in his 1963 song “Río de los Pájaros” – the river of the birds – a tribute to the stream that flows past his home city of Paysandú.His verses are a kind of sonic photography: they preserve local characters,…
In response to the escalating fire crises in the Amazon, a timely study has revealed alarming shortcomings in the emergency fire bans implemented by the Brazilian Government. Initially seen as a promising solution in 2019, these bans have consistently fallen short in subsequent years, revealing a pressing need for strategies that address the underlying…
[...]The idea for the game came because part of the challenge, according to Safran, is that when it comes to the Big One, we don’t have an earthquake problem, we have a people problem. She believes we are lacking the necessary “earthquake culture” that will minimize the impact of a large quake. “[This threat] should be woven into our everyday lives,” Sa…
Higher climate risks, higher financial costsClimate risks pose physical and transition risks. Nonetheless, the creditworthiness assessment has yet to distinguish climate risk impacts explicitly. In fact, only after the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015 incipient studies towards assessing climate risks have been observed, allowing today's broad ackn…
Clearcut logging can degrade forest ecosystems in Canada, leaving communities and ecosystems more exposed and prone to one of climate change's most catastrophic impacts: extreme flooding. These floods can be triggered by more intense precipitation over longer durations and/or more frequent precipitation events. The potential impacts of floods on pe…
Research by Nebraska’s Cory Armstrong is defining the effectiveness of the alerts, warnings and advisories that swirl around extreme weather events.A professor of journalism in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications, Armstrong began studying alerts related to hurricanes and how Gulf Coast residents respond to…
Rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are like our planet's arteries, carrying life-sustaining water in interconnected networks. When Earth's water cycle runs too fast, flooding can result, threatening lives and property. That risk is increasing as climate change alters precipitation patterns and more people are living in flood-prone areas worldwide.Scientists…
The WMO State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023 report confirmed that it was by far the warmest year on record. Sea levels continued to rise at a higher rate than the global average around much of the Atlantic region, threatening coastal areas and small island developing States. The State of the Climate in Latin America and the Cari…
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a massive geologic fault that last ruptured in January 1700. But while this fault has stayed quiet for centuries, it regularly generates small tremors that accompany gradual, nondisruptive movement along the fault.The tiny tremor events and slow slippage are known collectively as “episodic tremor and slip.” Seismic w…