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Two main factors contribute to these landslides-geological and human-induced. Rock stability and type, joint structures, and the presence of soft soil, especially plastic clay soil, contribute to instability. Human interference, like road construction.

The project’s objective is to provide an affordable solution to low and middle-income households and SMEs by offering market-based climate and disaster risk financing (CDRF) instruments tailored to the specific needs of Pacific communities.

A newly funded program led by UNSW Sydney’s Professor Donna Green will soon enable NSW primary school teachers to equip their students with the knowledge and practical skills to face natural disasters.

After record-breaking coastal flooding, La Nina could slightly reduce number of flood days

The U.S. Geological Survey installed eight rapid deployment gauges Monday and Tuesday to augment its network of near real-time streamgages and track rising waters and flow brought by Tropical Storm Debby’s rainfall.

There’s an important dividing line in the history of recent Texas earthquakes, when the establishment of the Texas Seismological Network (TexNet) introduced the ability to monitor seismic events to much lower magnitude.

Many airports including Dubai, Sofia and New York have already started preparing their infrastructure and operations to deal with climate disruptions.

Clouds have for decades been a bugbear for remote sensing of land surface temperature. A new approach incorporating machine learning appears to have solved this challenge.