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Physicist Brian Cox looks back on the history of the universe and explores the unlikely events that led to the existence of the human race.
- Development and Disasters—A Deadly Combination Well Beyond Houston
- How Farmers Convinced Scientists to Take Climate Change Seriously
- Fire Ants, Yet Another Hazard in Houston’s Flooded Streets
Harvey’s economic tolls are still being tallied, but the numbers look grim. “In the Houston metro area alone, there is more than $325 billion in residential value at risk,” Kevin Simmons, an economist at Austin College who focuses on storm impacts, told Propublica. Between damage to residential and commercial property, lost business, ruined cars, a...
When the United States began its atmospheric nuclear bomb testing in the early 1950s, farmers were one of the first to protest. Convinced that the explosions were intensifying hurricanes and tornados and triggering torrential rains and hailstorms as well as one of the worst droughts in the country’s history, the farmers petitioned the government to...
As if plodding through chest-deep water and avoiding stranded alligators weren’t enough, Houston residents had yet another environmental hazard to watch out for: fire ants. Called so for their painful and dangerous sting, which can cause a lethal allergic reaction in some people, the ants had evolved in Brazilian wetlands and are much better at dea...
Oct 19, 2023 · While the global effects of climate change may seem too small to be noticed by people living around the world, we have already experienced the effects of climate change through severe weather events, including forest fires, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves, floods, and storms.
Apr 21, 2010 · One type of trauma results from natural disasters such as earthquakes, tornados or hurricanes, forest fires, floods, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or tsunamis.
Jun 5, 2019 · Following the devastation of Lisbon by an earthquake and tsunami in 1755 the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote to Voltaire questioning the common naturalistic interpretation of disaster causation, noting how “it was hardly nature who assembled there twenty-thousand houses of six or seven stories.
- Alessandro Massazza, Chris R. Brewin, Helene Joffe
- 2019
Since the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), there have been important new developments and knowledge advances on changes in weather and climate extremes, in particular regarding human influence on individual extreme events, on changes in droughts, tropical cyclones, and compound events, and on projections at different global warming levels (1....
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Every year, approximately 400 natural disasters occur worldwide. Added to these are 30–40 armed conflicts . Together, these and other emergencies imperil the health of hundreds of millions of people and substantially increase levels of morbidity and mortality.
