Some New Zealand universities have proposed staff and course cuts in earth sciences. This could leave the country ill prepared to deal with natural hazards and extreme weather.
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Rip currents are one of the great dangers of Australian beaches. We can learn a lot about avoiding and escaping this natural hazard by asking survivors what being caught in a rip is really like.
At least 1,700 people are thought to have died.
Natural disasters cause billions in damage to ports around the world each year.
Six things you can do to help keep you and your home safe.
Many cities continue to allow developers to build homes in areas that have a high risk of flooding.
Catastrophic floods in north-western Europe have shown how badly early warning systems can fail.
One of the lessons we must take from the Whakaari tragedy is the cumulative nature of risk. Repeated visits to the volcanic island by tour guides placed them near unacceptable risk limits.
Massive landslides can trigger destructive and deadly tsunamis, and climate change could make them worse.
More than one million weather observations were made by aircraft each day in 2019. Since the pandemic started, these have dropped by 90%.
It’s now officially the end of hurricane season, but the rebuilding of the Bahamas continues, slowed by the risks imposed by a history of colonialism and class division.
Most homes are not as cyclone-ready as they could be. It seems lower insurance premiums aren’t enough of an incentive for owners to upgrade their homes, but a new study points to some solutions.
Land-use planning should give more weight to the increasing risks of natural hazards like bushfires as the first step in reducing the impacts.
Disaster information needs to come from all sections of a community at risk, and we need to leave nobody marginalised.
An expert responds to a teenager who wants to know – is there any hope for humanity’s future?
With heatwaves, droughts and fires all on the rise, the federal government is urged to merge its separate strategies on disaster resilience and climate readiness.
Black Saturday in 2009 was Australia’s worst bushfire tragedy. But climate projections predict more bushfire danger in the future, threatening our water supplies as well as homes.
Government agencies spend millions of dollars yearly to buy and demolish homes sited in floodplains. But the program is slow, cumbersome and doesn’t always help those who need it most.
The damage to coal ash sites from Hurricane Florence demonstrates how a community’s vulnerability to natural disasters is closely linked to how stringent environmental regulations are.
It’s understandable to want to shield children from the impacts of disasters. But research suggests that they should be given a voice in disaster planning and a role in reducing the risks.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Senior Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health & co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney
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Vice Chancellor and Professor of Geography, University of Hull
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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John Richardson is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Fellow, Child and Community Wellbeing Unit, Beyond Bushfires Research Program, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University
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Professor, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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PhD Candidate, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Reader in Physical Geography and Natural Hazards, Coventry University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Sustainable and Resilient Urbanism, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland
