Defending against natural disasters
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Curiousmatic
In the midst of a crisis, humanitarian technology is relied upon to help those affected.
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Factor
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The Huffington Post
The water invades. You’re supposed to be safe at home. But now you're helpless.
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Next Big Future
New Magma moving into a supervolcano can trigger an eruption in a few decades
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Newsweek
More than 25 percent of Earth will experience serious drought and desertification by the year 2050 if global warming is not curbed, according to a new study by the journal Nature Climate Change.
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Wired
The Chesapeake Bay project uses AI to go beyond flood warnings and create more detailed maps that can help with land-use planning and emergency response.
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LA Times
One NASA scientist suggests that by the end of the century hurricanes could reach wind speeds of 230 mph if current global warming trends continue.
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The Guardian
Experts say the state’s increasingly ferocious wildfires are not an aberration – they are the new reality
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Arstechnica
And that means changing rules for flood management.
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Digital Journal
California's deadly wildfires and dangerous heatwaves will soon enough become the "new normal," while periods of extreme heat will lead to two to three
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Fast Company
Here’s what coastal planners, policy makers, and homeowners need to do to prepare before it’s too late, three researchers write.
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NPR
Hurricane Florence — large, slow and full of moisture — is threatening to inundate the Southeast. It's a type of storm that's getting more likely to form.
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Business Insider
A supervolcano in Yellowstone erupts roughly every 600,000 years, and it's about 600,000 years since it last exploded.
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Medium
Scientists are gaining a better understanding of why, no matter the severity, many residents won’t heed orders to evacuate.
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New York Times
Scientists have a miserable record of predicting where and when earthquakes will strike. Some are now turning to artificial intelligence for answers.
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National Geographic
An intense temblor in Mexico was just the latest example of an enigmatic type of earthquake with highly destructive potential.
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Vox
Warmer climate is creating the perfect conditions for long wildfire seasons in the West.
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Axios
The biggest climate change-related impact is manifested in the increased dryness of vegetation.
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BBC
Are wildfires a natural, if tragic, event – or are they getting worse with climate change? Would logging help decrease them? BBC Future debunks five common myths.
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The London Economic
The London Economic | Climate change increasing risk of simultaneous natural disasters | News
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Science Magazine
Global warning system based on data from existing satellites could be just a couple years away
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Suspicious0bservers
The entire series is now an Infomentary! Watch it on our channel homepage![Original Description] The C.I.A. classified a 284-page book on earth's catastrophe...
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Suspicious0bservers
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Suspicious0bservers
Does the "missing" $21 Trillion have anything to do with the catastrophe cycle due up sooner than we'd all hope? The video and the digressions follow from th...
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Suspicious0bservers
A solar micronova satisfies all the catastrophe evidence, including the cyclical nature, the disaster sweet-spot, AND impactor-like evidence.Watch the whole ...
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National Geographic
The 800 million people who live near active volcanoes may soon have much more time to evacuate when their mountains rumble to life.
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CNBC
Millions of residents along the Southeastern U.S. coast are on high alert amid warnings the storm would move northeast after battering the Bahamas, threatening Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
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EcoWatch
After initially predicting a pretty typical Atlantic hurricane season, in terms of the number of expected named and major storms, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently revised its forecast, increasing the likelihood of an above-average hurricane season from 30 percent to 45 percent. This means residents of...
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Stanford
Scientists and engineers worked with state and local agencies to develop and test a long-lasting, environmentally benign fire-retarding material. If used on high-risk areas, the simple, affordable treatment could dramatically cut the number of fires that occur each year.
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International Business Times
Scientists predicted a massive increase in the number of large earthquakes in 2018 as the planet's rotation speed slows.
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Science Magazine
The recent evolution of induced seismicity in Central United States calls for exhaustive catalogs to improve seismic hazard assessment. Over the last decades, the volume of seismic data has increased exponentially, creating a need for efficient algorithms to reliably detect and locate earthquakes. Today’s most elaborate methods scan through the plethora of continuous seismic records, searching f
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CNN
Irwin Redlener and Jackie Ratner write that cities, especially with older housing stock, are particularly vulnerable to the extreme heat associated with climate change.
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NWA
As temperatures rise in the western U.S., so does the damage from wildfires.
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The Guardian
Rising Arctic temperatures mean we face a future of ‘extreme extremes’ where sunny days become heatwaves and rain becomes floods, study says
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The Guardian
The $1bn, decade-in-the-making creation can measure height and thickness of ice sheets to within a centimeter<br>
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Eurekalert
The number of extreme downpours increased steadily between 1964 and 2013 -- a period when global warming also intensified, according to research published in the journal Water Resources Research.
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Salon
New research is revealing the lasting effects of exposure to the tiny particulate matter in smoke
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Inside Climate News
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Propublica
This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad.
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Live Science
Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead.
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WSJ
Stretched by longer, deadlier fire seasons, officials are using artificial intelligence to more closely track blazes and more judiciously steer resources.
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ABC News
A Mozambique city fought climate change, then a cyclone roared in; 'yet another alarm bell'
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Fastcompany
With Hurricane Irma following on Harvey’s heels, HR leaders recently took to Facebook to discuss how organizations can provide support and respond.
