There's no controlling Mother Nature, and her wrath can, at times, be staggering. Last year, natural disasters—from droughts ...
A MONG THE countries most prone to natural disasters, Japan has a habit of spawning new bureaucracies. Yet, despite in recent ...
Three factors—spectacular images, a high death toll and strong personal ties—make it more likely that the media in one country will report on a natural disaster in another, according to a study by the ...
Flood susceptibility mapping (FSM) is dominated by studies of upland catchments. At the same time, near-sea-level coastal and backwater floodplains, where inundation is shaped by reclamation, land use ...
A PLS-SEM analysis of 39 disaster-prone countries from 1993 to 2020 shows that informality directly amplifies disaster impact ...
The floods in Nepal and Tibet have been terrifying: some 1,386 people have died, and around 5,000 remain unaccounted for. The flood destroyed bridges, hydropower projects and entire towns. The scale ...
Super El Nino phenomenon is setting off more risks of extreme weather of more floods, droughts and typhoons globally. In the past month alone, extreme weather events have spanned from Oceania and ...
I’ve watched in horror as Europe burns. Ferocious wildfires have swept through Spain, France and now Greece, scorching towns and forests and spewing toxic smoke. Hundreds of thousands of people have ...
NPR has covered several natural disasters this past summer, across the United States and around the world. In the U.S., public radio journalists filed stories from flash floods in the Grand Canyon, ...
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