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The progressive landslide took months to develop into a catastrophe

Scientists take calculated risks when they’re storm chasing – enough to collect crucial data, but never putting their teams in too much danger. It turns out that driving is actually the most dangerous part of storm-chasing.

Wilfires not only pose hazards to communities and wildlife with destruction of habits and infrastructure, but also affect public health, as well as impacting solar radiation and albedo feedbacks that link to global temperatures and meteorological cycles.

In a new study published in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, researchers outlined a new metric to quantify the relative contributions of heat and humidity to humid heat - stickiness.

In the USA, more than 160 million people in the West, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and parts of New England are living under a heat alert as record high temperatures are being broken.

The new rule will result in higher-elevated and better-fortified buildings, and could help break a cycle of destruction and reconstruction that has cost the government billions of dollars over the past few decades.

Princeville, North Carolina, the oldest community in the United States founded by formerly enslaved people, has been trapped in a cycle of disaster and disinvestment for decades. It sits on a plain below the banks of the Tar River.

More than half of the global population and about 80% of the U.S. population lives in cities - and faces higher heat risks. The entire planet is warming due to human-caused climate change, but the built environment further amplifies.