NASA unveiled a new Web site today in which it publishes satellite images in near real time over natural hazards around the world. A new addition to NASA’s Earth ...

Most of us are aware that climate change is altering our world. But it can also make certain natural disasters, like hurricanes, more likely in places where susceptible species reside. Until recently, ...

On Feb. 6, 2023, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, followed hours later by a second violent quake, devastated southern Turkey and northern Syria. More than 55,000 people were killed, and thousands of homes ...

Natural disasters are devastating events that have the potential to cause huge amounts of damage and loss of life. Globally, around 60,000 people die each year as a result of disasters such as ...

Geoscientists have published a large review paper in the journal Science that highlights the capacity of current models to link landscape-altering events and calls for further studies of cascading ...

Disasters are tragedies. Yet they can serve as laboratories for understanding the physical and social factors governing them. Valuable information gathered during the hours, days, months, and years ...