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What Can We Do About Extreme Weather?
Perhaps climate change policy will be a response to our growing experience with extreme weather events.
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In Madagascar, a Hurricane Simulation Transforms Into Real-life Disaster Response
Instead of leading a fictional disaster simulation as planned, Columbia researchers helped government agencies prepare for and respond to Tropical Cyclone Batsirai in real time.
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How Agencies and Communities Facing Wildfire Can Collaborate to Cut Risk Now
A talk with two leaders of the Biden administration’s effort to fight fire before things burn.
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U.N. Pushes to Cut Worldwide Vulnerability to Climate Extremes Through Better Early Warnings
All the satellite tracking of great storms, heat and other climate hazards doesn’t have value if those most in harm’s way aren’t reached in ways that boost resilience.
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Was It a Flash Flood or Not? Categorizing Disaster Types in Historical Records
Researchers develop new methods to assess flash flood risk to support anticipatory humanitarian action.
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Deploying in the Mangrove Forest
We continued our electromagnetic expedition to image fresh and saline groundwater into the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, the world’s largest. While guards protected us from tigers, it was a wild boar that dug up some of our equipment.
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Water Content Controls the Depth of Magma Storage Under Many Volcanoes, Says Study
Research into volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands and elsewhere overturns the conventional understanding of what controls the depth at which rising magma is stored.
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Hurricanes and Other Tropical Cyclones Linked to Rise in U.S. Deaths from Several Major Causes
A landmark study reveals the potential deadly cost of climate-related disasters to injuries, infectious and parasitic diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and other disorders.
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Thalia Balkaran: Working to Protect Children in the Caribbean From Disasters
Balkaran is helping communities in the Caribbean to develop disaster preparedness plans that focus on some of their most vulnerable residents: children.
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