Tag: Natural disasters
All wildfires are not alike, but the US is fighting them...
Stephen Pyne, Arizona State University
So far, the 2018 fire season has produced a handful of big fires in California, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado;...
How your social network could save you from a disaster
Daniel P. Aldrich, Northeastern University and Danaë Metaxa, Stanford University
In early November 2017, Brooks Fisher’s neighbor in Sonoma, California, pounded on his door at...
Crop insurance is good for farmers, but not always for the...
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Tatyana Deryugina,...
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...
New hurricane season jeopardizes Caribbean recovery: 5 essential reads
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
June 1 marks the beginning of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season – an ominous date for the Caribbean region, where many...
Lava, ash flows, mudslides and nasty gases: Good reasons to respect...
Brittany Brand, Boise State University
Volcanoes are beautiful and awe-inspiring, but the ongoing eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island is showing how dangerous these...
Global toll from landslides is heaviest in developing countries
A. Joshua West, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
This month’s tragic mudslides in Montecito, California are a reminder...
Post-fire mudslide problems aren’t new and likely to get worse
Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University
Several weeks after a series of wildfires blackened nearly 500 square miles in Southern California, a large winter storm rolled...
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...
