Risk identification and assessment

The number of people exposed to dangerous heat stress worldwide has risen sharply over the past half-century, propelled by climate change, according to a study released Monday as Europe sweltered through a punishing heat wave.

Forest fires now burn ten times more acreage annually than in 1985, while wildfire severity has gotten even worse. In California, 30 times more acreage burned from high-severity, forest-killing fires, according to new UCLA research.

Machine learning methods have for some time been successfully applied to unravel the complexity of earthquake interactions and to identify distinct patterns in existing earthquake data catalogues.

As India grapples with record heat and a delayed monsoon, the research paints a sobering picture: climate change is creating a deadly "dual threat" of extreme humid heat and catastrophic rainfall.

Europeans are experiencing their second heat wave this summer. One climate scientist called the weather event a “sad inevitability.”

Most people know that heat waves can be dangerous. What they may not realize is that the heat indoors can be much worse than outdoors.

While populations in continental regions are predominantly exposed to seasonal cumulative excess heat, many populations in tropical and subtropical climates are chronically exposed to high temperatures and high humidity.

When we see a forest fire on the news, it is easy to think of it as a local emergency. A new CMCC study shows that smoke from Italian forest fires can travel hundreds to even thousands of kilometers, carrying fine particles.