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Displaying 135 of about 329 resultsLarge scale-power outages caused by tropical cyclones can be prevented almost entirely if a small but critical set of power lines is protected against storm damages, a new study published in “Nature Energy” finds. Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK developed a new method that can be used to identify those critical…
This report explores real-world applications of resilience and public warning strategies through in-depth case studies focused on the United States, Japan, and the European Union. This groundbreaking report is the result of a dynamic partnership between the UCL Warning Research Centre and Everbridge. The report navigates the complexities of transla…
In the nearly 25 years since the U.S. Drought Monitor was created, its weekly maps of drought conditions nationwide-which help direct emergency federal aid-have captured the steady march toward the drier, hotter reality of climate change, according to a new Dartmouth-based study.But the Drought Monitor itself has not adapted to that reality, the researc…
After a wildfire, loss of canopy vegetation and changes to soil properties can occur, which leads to more water flowing over land during rainfall. This can lead to flooding, erosion, and the movement of sediment, ash, pollutants and debris to surface water.The range of water quality impacts after a wildfire varies, from no noticeable change to large inc…
Time1:00 - 2:00pm CEST (11:00am - 12:00pm UTC)AboutThe Virtual Side Event of the G20 Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Working Group, is hosted by the Brazilian Presidency, focused on leveraging cell broadcast dissemination for early warning systems. Highlighting the critical role of early warnings in saving lives and reducing disaster-related mortality, th…
The World Bank approved a project to help Guyana adapt to climate change and reduce flood risk in its coastal regions. This initiative is set to benefit around 320,000 people, approximately 40 percent of the country's population, including the most vulnerable.Guyana is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Studies have shown that rising…
The delivery of Early Warnings for All (EW4All) requires scaled up and coordinated investments and action across the four essential pillars of end to end, people-centred Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS). These pillars are (1) disaster risk knowledge; (2) detection, observation, monitoring, analysis, and forecasting; (3) warning dissemination a…
This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360.A new study finds that more than 50,000 Californians died from exposure to wildfire smoke over a little more than a decade.Smoke contains tiny particles, small enough to enter the bloodstream when inhaled, that can raise the risk of dying from heart or lung disease. For the study, researchers modele…
As heat waves creep north, they are baking schools that previously did not need air conditioning. Fixing the problem will be neither cheap, nor easy.[...]As hotter-than-normal temperatures become more common in the late spring and early fall, they pose a risk to students’ academic success. Researchers have linked heat exposure to reduced learning, in ad…
Federal officials on Monday unveiled a set of tools aimed at helping protect people in the United States from the dangers of extreme heat.The resources, developed jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, include new color-coded heat forecasts and a public dashboard showing local heat…
This study investigated the attitudes, actions, and recommendations of older adults regarding natural hazards that pose risks in their geographic area—specifically floods, wildfires, and/or earthquakes in Canada. Older adults are significantly impacted by natural hazards and disasters that are exacerbated by climate change. Understanding their awar…
Wildfires often spew plumes of toxic smoke throughout the western United States, eroding decades of improvements in air quality.But the impact of this wildfire smoke on human health is just beginning to be analyzed. A new paper by Sally Picciotto, an associate researcher in the division of environmental health sciences at UC Berkeley School of Public He…
The return of spring in the Northern Hemisphere touches off tornado season. A tornado's twisting funnel of dust and debris seems an unmistakable sight. But that sight can be obscured to radar, the tool of meteorologists. It's hard to know exactly when a tornado has formed, or even why.A new dataset could hold answers. It contains radar returns from…
Every Thursday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, the U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) publishes a map of drought conditions across the United States. Established in 2000, the USDM combines measurements of physical variables like soil moisture and runoff with reports of drought effects like fallow fields and reductions in municipal water supply. Though generated by…
Dozens of tornadoes hit the central U.S. April 26-28, 2024, tearing through suburbs and small towns and damaging hundreds of homes from Oklahoma to Nebraska and Iowa.Spring is tornado season in the U.S., but the tornadoes in Nebraska and Iowa were quite a bit farther north and east of what would be typical for tornadoes in late April, when tornado activ…