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Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggests new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.
Geoscientists have published a large review paper in the journal Science that highlights the capacity of current models to ...
Helene was a powerful reminder that natural hazards don’t disappear when the skies clear – they evolve.
Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.
Europe isn’t just at risk of the direct effects of climate change, it is also exposed to the indirect effects of infectious disease like dengue, chikungunya and West Nile Virus – which are ...
The recent death of a bison at Grand Prismatic Spring is an emphatic example of the danger posed by thermal areas in ...
San Francisco has assigned a seismic hazard score to hundreds of city-owned buildings. Some key ones, including a jury duty ...
In “Murderland,” Caroline Fraser tries to understand why her hometown became a breeding ground for serial killers.
Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what ...