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Displaying 90 of about 1648 resultsTwo years ago, the UTSA Center for Cultural Sustainability embarked on a project to improve the disaster resilience of historic buildings along the Texas Gulf Coast. The researchers are now close to completion of a Resilience Roadmap, a step-by-step guide that will help preserve the structural integrity of these properties against hazardous weather…
Over a short period in May and June, intense rains lashed Assam, in northeastern India, and Bangladesh. As well as landslides, several rivers in the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin burst their banks. The swiftness with which floodwaters submerged towns and villages caught residents and officials off-guard.
Scientists say the problem will only in…
Using data from the eruption of the underwater volcano near Tonga in 2022, a research group at Nagoya University in Japan has used disturbances in the earth’s upper atmosphere to track the airwaves that cause tsunami. Their findings may lead to speedier predictions of these giant waves.
Every minute is crucial when warning people caught in the path of…
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC) was officially opened by His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi.
President Kenyatta addressed the ICPAC inauguration stating that “we live in uncertain times, increasing temperatures and sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and mo…
An earthquake strikes a city in Indiana, causing chaos and destruction, sending emergency managers and first responders scrambling. Then the water system goes down, and everyone figures it’s because of the natural disaster.
But it isn’t. It’s a ransomware attack by cybercriminals, who are taking advantage of the disruption to infiltrate the water syste…
Florida Ere is a single mother of six in Turkwel, Turkana, Kenya. She is a subsistence farmer who depends on the fruits of her labour to feed herself and her children. But every year, Florida must contend with natural hazards, such as seasonal flooding, which threaten her livelihood and endanger her prosperity.
Florida is typical of the 4 billion…
Within minutes, a statistical model based on a global database of public reports of ground shaking can be used to identify an earthquake as a high- or low-impact event, according to a new study published in The Seismic Record.
High-impact earthquakes, as defined by the study, are those associated with at least one destroyed building, at…
Future extreme rain will be embedded in shorter, more convective dominant rainfall events in the northeastern region of North America, leading to larger rate in future temperature-precipitation scaling.
In a future climate, precipitation is expected to be around 7% more intense for each Celsius-degree temperature increment. This estimation is based on…
New services and wider reach are on deck with the expansion of SERVIR’s Southeast Asia Hub. SERVIR is a joint initiative between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that supports international climate adaptation and resilience.
A scheduled ceremony to formally expand the program is on Tuesday, January 24. Host…
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As part of the MCR2030 Digital Resilience Webinar Series, the third and last webinar of the series will focus on how policy makers can harness the emerging opportunities of digitalisation, as well as the large offer of tools and resources available, to support municipal and institutional governance and urban pl…
This briefing note accesses mobile-based early warning systems as an effective and inclusive alerting system. In 2022, ninety-five percent of the world’s population had access to mobile broadband networks, and three quarters of people owned a mobile phone. This makes mobile networks a powerful communication channel to alert populations about an imm…
WMO annually issue a high-level multi-agency report on the State of Climate Services. The 2023 Report will examine global and regional demand, uptake, and opportunities for climate information services in the health sector. It will identify where and how future investments can enhance more effective climate services to better protect health from weather…
Under a project led by the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, researchers have used computer simulations to show that weather phenomena such as sudden downpours could potentially be modified by making small adjustments to certain variables in the weather system. They did this by taking advantage of a system known as a “butterfly attractor” in chaos…
This Training Module focuses on the broader ethical considerations for conducting research in a disaster setting.
This paper proposes a scientific concept of digital twin-driven systematic construction of intelligent disaster prevention and mitigation for infrastructure (IDPMI), which intends to clarify the potential of digital twin (DT) in disaster management. Natural hazards, which have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and loss to infrastructure, h…