Natural Disasters7
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What We Need to Learn From Climate-Accelerated Extreme Weather Events
We need to build our response capacity leading up to extreme-weather emergencies and implement a more systematic and assured process of reconstruction for victims in the aftermath.
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Towering Wildfire Clouds Are Affecting the Stratosphere, and the Climate
Aircraft collecting data from clouds of smoke have revealed surprising effects of wildfires on the ground.
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Gauging Losses and Lessons in Turkey’s Unfolding Earthquake Tragedy
As earthquake engineers stress, most of the time, buildings kill people, not the shaking itself. It’s exceedingly hard to unbuild, move back, or retrofit buildings at scale.
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New Trainings Will Lead the Way on Climate Resilience and Equitable Disaster Response
With a $1.5 million grant from FEMA, Columbia Climate School’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness will create and deliver trainings on climate resilience with a focus on equity for state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency managers.
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Flooding in California: What Went Wrong, and What Comes Next
Climate School experts help to explain this devastating weather and what it means in the broader conversation of climate change and disaster response.
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What Climate Resilience Policies Are in Store for State Legislatures in 2023?
States have already filed at least 39 bills related to disaster resilience. Here, a closer look at what they focus on.
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California’s Atmospheric Rivers Warn of Future Climatic Calamity
Atmospheric rivers continue to hit California. What do these events mean for flooding and other potential disasters in California’s future?
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New Climate School Report Details State Policy Trends in Disaster Resilience
As disasters become more expensive, state-level recovery measures are increasing in importance. A new report sheds light on state efforts to prioritize disaster resilience and recovery.
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Loss and Damage: What Is It, and Will There Be Progress at COP27?
This seemingly simple term carries a lot of baggage. Scholars at the Columbia Climate School are helping to envision what forward movement could look like.
