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Book review: ‘Disaster by Choice’ by Ilan Kelman
How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes.
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Fibre-optic networks could act as earthquake observatories
Existing networks of buried fibre-optic cables have the potential to become an inexpensive observatory for monitoring and studying earthquakes, a new study has demonstrated.
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Africa obtains life-saving tool to predict climate-related disasters
A new weather forecasting system in Africa allows meteorologists to track approaching storms in real-time, potentially saving lives from climate-related disasters.
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Tree planting to offset carbon could be a gamble
The idea that tree panting can offset carbon emissions has proven popular in recent years, with even the somewhat-climate sceptical Trump administration embracing proposals to plant one trillion trees.
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Earthquake alerts coming to Android phones
Google’s Android phones have started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor, with the feature first being...
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Ancient global warming ‘no match for human-led emissions’
Ancient global warming may have been caused by massive volcanic activity, scientists say, but this natural event does not come close to matching what humans are doing today.
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Experts call for tech upgrades to help fight wildfires
The latest fires in California show that rich western developed nations lack the technology to battle them. New approaches are needed.
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Post-disaster city recovery strategies optimised using novel technique
Engineers have presented a versatile and novel recovery technique that could benefit earthquake-prone cities recover faster after a natural disaster.
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Repeated fires dampen forests’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide, study finds
The capacity for forests in regions that suffer from extreme repeated fires to store large amounts of carbon is falling, according to researchers.
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Earth science modelling: the disaster data dilemma
We have the data. We have the technology. We have the expertise. Why is it still so difficult to forecast the future of our planet? We look at the benefits – and shortcomings – of Earth science...
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Rising risk of wildfires across UK amid climate crisis, scientists warn
Once-in-a-century extreme weather events which pose the highest danger of wildfires could occur every year in parts of the UK as the climate changes, scientists have warned.
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Contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear plant to be released into the ocean
Japan has made the decision to release more than one million tonnes of radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.
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Building damage risk from natural disasters predicted by AI
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a set of tools that can automatically identify characteristics of buildings and detect the risks that a city’s structure would face...
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The Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Tokyo Olympics
Before Covid-19 forced a delay, Japan’s government saw the ‘Recovery Olympics’ as a way to show the Fukushima nuclear disaster was under control. 10 years on, critics say many issues remain unresolved.
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Storms batter south of England, flooding homes, roads and hospitals
Homes, roads and Tube stations were flooded and two London hospitals asked patients to stay away after thunderstorms battered the south of England yesterday (Sunday July 25), while other countries...
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UK faces regular bouts of 40°C heat even if climate change is tackled
The UK will experience higher temperatures and wetter weather for the foreseeable future even if climate change is kept in check, the Met Office has said in a report.
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Fibre-optic infrastructure could be used to detect earthquakes
Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a sensing system which uses fibre-optic cables for earthquake detection, geological...
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Weather, climate disasters ‘stronger and more frequent than in the 1970s’
The number of disasters, such as floods and heatwaves, driven by climate change have increased fivefold over the past 50 years, killing over two million people, and costing $3.64tn (£2.64tn) in total...
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Is climate change to blame?
As extreme weather events, from heatwaves to hurricanes, increasingly dominate the headlines, scientists are getting better at linking them to climate change. Welcome to the growing field of...
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Eight worst wildfire weather years on record happened in last decade
Lower humidity and higher temperatures are driving extreme weather that makes wildfires more frequent and intense, say experts.
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