Tag: Natural disasters
2022’s supercharged summer of climate extremes: How global warming and La...
Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland
There’s an old joke about the fellow who has his left foot in a...
Flood and wildfire risks: Translating risk ratings into future costs can...
Melanie Gall, Arizona State University; Christopher Emrich, University of Central Florida, and Marie Aquilino, Arizona State University
If you...
Debunking stereotypes about mobile homes could make them a new face...
Zachary Lamb, University of California, Berkeley; Jason Spicer, University of Toronto, and Linda Shi, Cornell University
When you hear...
Bad news for the 2022 hurricane season: The Loop Current, a...
Nick Shay, University of Miami
The Atlantic hurricane season starts on June 1, and the Gulf of Mexico is...
Tornadoes, climate change and why Dixie is the new Tornado Alley
Ernest Agee, Purdue University
Tornadoes tore up homes in New Orleans and its suburbs and were reported in communities...
Wealthy countries still haven’t met their $100 billion pledge to help...
Rishikesh Ram Bhandary, Boston University
After another year of record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather disasters, wealthy countries are under...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
