Mapping the City Where Six Disasters Collide: Changchun’s Multi-Hazard Risk Blueprint
Researchers at Jilin Jianzhu University combined GIS and the Analytic Hierarchy Process to map six overlapping hazards across Changchun, revealing ...
Tag: natural hazards
Mapping Bangladesh’s Heatwave Hotspots: Where Heat Meets Vulnerability
A new district-level study maps heatwave vulnerability across Bangladesh and finds that socioeconomic sensitivity and weak adaptive capacity, not temperature ...
Deep Learning Maps Where Climate Change Will Trigger Landslides in China’s Qinling Mountains
A new study combining CMIP6 rainfall projections with deep learning shows that high landslide susceptibility zones in China's Qinling Mountains ...
New Flood Resilience Map Reveals Where a Watershed Is Most at Risk
Researchers combined the pressure-state-response framework with catastrophe progression models to produce the first comprehensive watershed-scale flood resilience map of Iran's ...
Most Landslides in Nepal Are Repeat Offenders, 22-Year National Record Reveals
A 22-year national-scale record from Nepal shows that persistent, recurrent landslides account for about 80 percent of all visible landslide ...
AI Listens for Disasters: New Network Tells Volcanoes and Earthquakes Apart from Human Noise
A new parallel AI network called Infra-Net uses multi-view wavelet scattering features and confidence-based fusion to distinguish natural hazard infrasound ...
How Much Is Your House Worth to a Flood? New Study Puts a Price on Every Building in Germany
A new benchmark study of the flood-hit Ahrweiler district shows that different exposure modelling workflows can produce building asset value ...
Hidden Gravity Waves Ahead of Storm Fronts May Warn of Meteorological Tsunamis
New research links atmospheric gravity waves preceding weather fronts to the pressure disturbances capable of generating destructive meteorological tsunamis along ...
Slow Nudges, Sudden Collapse: How Progressive Failure Unleashed a Cascade Landslide Into the Minjiang River
A new study in Natural Hazards shows that a large landslide entering the Minjiang River failed progressively, with three zones ...
Not All Data Are Equal: Information Theory Reveals Which Observations Best Calibrate Landslide Models
Researchers at RWTH Aachen University have developed a Bayesian data selection workflow that uses Kullback-Leibler divergence to quantify which observational ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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