Tag: Disaster
Disasters can wipe out affordable housing forever unless communities plan ahead...
Shannon Van Zandt, Texas A&M University
The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the...
2021’s climate disasters revealed an east-west weather divide, with one side...
Shuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Alongside a lingering global pandemic, the year 2021 was filled with climate disasters, some...
An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used...
Robin R. Murphy, Texas A&M University
Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has deployed robots at 29 disasters, including three building...
Florida condo collapse – searching for answers about what went wrong...
Norb Delatte, Oklahoma State University
The collapse of a huge condominium building near Miami, Florida was shocking news to...
How meteorologists predict the next big hurricane
Mark Bourassa, Florida State University and Vasu Misra, Florida State University
Hurricane Florence is heading toward the U.S. coast, right at the height of hurricane...
Religion is uniquely human, but computer simulations may help us understand...
Wesley Wildman, Boston University
When disaster strikes, people often turn to religion for comfort and support. A powerful recent example of this comes from a...