While Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton, the second dangerous storm to hit the U.S. Southeast in just a couple of weeks, a flood of misinformation threatens to compound the disasters. A major ...
An ad hoc committee will organize a 1.5-day public workshop to advance medical and public health research conducted during large-scale emergencies and disasters (“disaster science”) to benefit the ...
Floods, tornadoes, terrorist attacks—emergency responders navigate myriad disasters with increasing reliance on technology. Rochester Institute of Technology is educating the next generation of ...
Editor’s note: In the wake of the devastating floods that have swept through Texas—claiming lives, displacing thousands and overwhelming local infrastructure—the urgency of disaster preparedness has ...
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Japense Keio University hosts Rabat architecture students for disaster risk and reconstruction training
Keio University and the International University of Rabat (UIR) successfully concluded an eight-day academic exchange under the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)-funded Sakura Science Exchange ...
Photo: Christian Martinez/Office of the Governor. As if predicting weather isn’t difficult enough, the Trump administration’s firing of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
On the first Saturday in April, a Buffalo blizzard set the stage for a deadly traffic pileup resulting in serious injuries with the added risk of hypothermia. While a springtime snowstorm is nothing ...
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Wildfire disasters are increasingly in the news, yet less land is burning globally – here’s why
Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire ...
The Trump administration’s steep staff cuts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) triggered shutdowns of several climate-related programs Thursday. Perhaps most notably, the ...
When natural disasters strike remote regions, connectivity can mean the difference between tragedy and survival. In areas defined by rugged terrain, vast distances, or geographic isolation, restoring ...
How many people died from disasters in 2024? Here, I’m talking about meteorological and geological disasters — events like floods, hurricanes, wildfires, and earthquakes.1 My instinct going into this ...
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