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Highway near Los Angeles damaged after heavy rain
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Is Your Home at Risk of Experiencing a Natural Disaster?

by Sarah Derouin 11 August 20215 October 2021

In the contiguous United States, 57% of structures are at risk of experiencing at least one natural hazard—and risk is driven by greater development in hazardous areas against a backdrop of climate change.

Experimental crown fire in the boreal forest, Northwest Territories, Canada
Posted inEditors' Vox

New Special Collection: Fire in the Earth System

by Amy E. East and C. Santin 27 April 2020

Papers are invited for a new cross-journal special collection presenting advances in understanding the physical and biogeochemical processes associated with landscape fires and their impacts.

Posted inNews

Cortes de Energía, PG&E y el Futuro Vacilante de la Ciencia

by Jenessa Duncombe 10 February 202028 September 2021

Mientras los legisladores debaten sobre los apagones como una medida paliativa para resolver el problema de los incendios forestales en Estados Unidos, la ciencia pende de un hilo.

NASA’S ICON satellite
Posted inNews

How to Launch a Satellite During a Blackout

by Jenessa Duncombe 29 January 202030 January 2020

PG&E shut down the power to Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory right before a satellite launch.

An informal refugee camp in Bekka Valley, Lebanon.
Posted inFeatures

No Place to Flee

by W. Pollock and J. Wartman 25 November 201928 September 2021

The Syrian refugee crisis has had far-reaching consequences for geologic risk in neighboring Lebanon, providing insights into the interplay between forced displacement and natural disasters.

Satellite image of a fire in Northern California
Posted inNews

New Eyes on Wildfires

by Jon Kelvey 30 April 2019

Onboard machine learning and compact thermal imaging could turn satellites into real-time fire management tools to help officials on the ground.

The Limpopo River in Mozambique, which can pose a threat to human infrastructure when floodwaters rise
Posted inScience Updates

Can We Build Useful Models of Future Risk from Natural Hazards?

by A. J. Kettner, I. Overeem and G. Tucker 10 September 2018

Geoprocesses, Geohazards—CSDMS 2018: A CSDMS hosted Workshop; Boulder, Colorado, 22–24 May 2018

Posted inEditors' Vox

We Can Work It Out: Avoiding Disasters

by A. AghaKouchak and B. van der Pluijm 7 September 20187 September 2018

Strengthening societal resilience by focusing on the interactions between natural hazards, the built environment, and human societies.

MOOC participants all over the world learn about natural disasters.
Posted inScience Updates

A New Massive Open Online Course on Natural Disasters

by J. Stix, J. Gyakum, K. Caissy, A. Guadagno, A. Steeves-Fuentes, W. W. Yan, F. Roop, P.-A. Vungoc, C. Walker, A. Finkelstein and L. Winer 1 February 2018

Two professors put their college course online. Enrollment jumped more than 20-fold, and a forum for exchanging ideas with a multigenerational international community was born.

First-grade teacher Sheri Bittle (above) uses her phone amid the rubble of her classroom destroyed by a 21 May 2013 tornado in Moore, Okla.
Posted inNews

Algorithm Discerns Where Tweets Came from to Track Disasters

by Katherine Kornei 17 July 2017

New pilot system that analyzed more than 35 million flood-related Twitter posts to determine their geographic origin might help first responders locate and react more quickly to calamities.

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