Tag: Risk
In fire-prone California, many residents can’t afford wildfire insurance
Gireesh Shrimali, Stanford University
California’s relatively quiet 2019 fire season ended in October. Just days after Pacific Gas & Electric cut power to half a...
Why are Atlantic and Gulf coast property owners building back bigger...
Eli Lazarus, University of Southampton and Evan B. Goldstein, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
U.S. coastal counties are densely populated and extensively developed. They...
Machine learning and big data know it wasn’t you who just...
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit...
Stock investors on higher floors take more risks – here’s why
Sina Esteky, Miami University
Stocks have been on a bumpy ride lately as concerns over a trade war prompt investors to rethink their appetite for...
How to deal with life’s risks more rationally
Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University
The world is an uncertain and risky place. The news constantly bombards us with scary situations from school...
Machine learning and big data know it wasn’t you who just...
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
You’re sitting at home minding your own business when you get a call from your credit card’s fraud detection unit...
Don’t blame California wildfires on a ‘perfect storm’ of weather events
Gregory L Simon, University of Colorado Denver
Late evening on Oct. 8, a series of fires ignited in Northern California’s famous Wine Country region. The...
California needs to rethink urban fire risk after wine country tragedy
Max Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
We recently witnessed the wind-driven Tubbs fire blast its way through densely urbanized neighborhoods in Northern California, causing dozens...
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...
