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Displaying 695 of about 695 resultsBy Liz Hanna
Australia is hot. But future extreme hot weather will be worse still, with new research predicting that Sydney and Melbourne are on course for 50℃ summer days by the 2040s if high greenhouse emissions continue. That means that places such as Perth, Adelaide and various regional towns could conceivably hit that mark even sooner.
This trend…
By Ignacio Sánchez D’Ocon, Georges Darido, Sofía Guerrero Gámez and Naho Shibuya
The concentration of population in cities and their exposure to seismic hazards constitute one of the greatest disaster risks facing Peru and Ecuador. In 2007, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake along the southern coast of Peru claimed the lives of 520 people and destroyed countle…
By Nicole Hoey
LONDON - The U.S. government urgently needs to do more to protect Americans from the worst impacts of climate change by preparing both people and infrastructure to better withstand hurricanes, floods and rises in sea level, experts say.
Last year, about 90 people died and more than 185,000 homes were damaged or destroyed when Hurricane…
Rising sea levels are predicted to submerge many coastal areas around San Francisco Bay by 2100, but a new study warns that sinking land — primarily the compaction of landfill in places such as Treasure Island and Foster City — will make flooding even worse.
Yellow areas are parts of the San Francisco Bay shoreline at risk of flooding by 2100 because…
By Ian Millinship
Large and complex risks, such as industrial sites, shopping centres and caravan sites, are common in UK (re)insurance portfolios. These sites are often prone to flood and yet can be particularly difficult to model as their geocoded coordinate locations tend to be a poor representation of both the actual location and the extent of the…