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Monika Graff / Getty Images Dr. Latoya Storr was an emergency medicine physician for a hospital in Grand Bahama when Hurricane Dorian ripped across the island in 2019. The hospital flooded four feet ...
Nepal has adopted early warning systems that have proven effective. In July's Bhote Koshi River disaster, Nepalese officials told Climate Home News that the warnings they received an hour before the ...
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deaths, economic damage and other negative impacts from disasters have caused losses equivalent to 42 million life years annually since 1980, a measure that is ...
Advancements in technology, particularly in Artificial Intelligence (AI), are transforming our ability to predict and manage natural disasters. This technology, with its ability to analyze vast ...
Earth faced one of the deadliest natural disasters in history — the Toba supereruption in Indonesia. This colossal blast was over 10,000 times bigger than Mount St. Helens and nearly pushed humans to ...
Pakistan is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. Its population of over 250 million suffers ...
At the start of September, torrential rain in the Mediterranean led to severe flooding, infrastructure damage and deaths in multiple countries. As climate change expedites more extreme weather events ...
In this episode of Tiny Matters, Sam and Deboki unravel two very different environmental disasters: Hurricane Katrina and this year’s Ohio train derailment. They’ll cover the science underlying those ...