Cyclone Idai: rich countries are to blame for disasters like this – here’s how they can make amends
From New Orleans to Haiti to Mozambique, global inequality plays a major role in making disasters deadly.
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AI could help us manage natural disasters – but only to an extent
AI can definitely help us monitor floods and could perhaps even deliver more accurate early-warning messages in the near future.
A disaster relief insurance system shows how well international alliances can work – new research
Collaboration can have immediate benefits in the most dire circumstances.
Bitcoin rich kids in Puerto Rico: crypto utopia or crypto‑colonialism?
Crypto billionaires enjoy their Caribbean playground but poorer locals with little knowledge of the tech are excluded.
How extreme weather will affect the insurance and energy sectors
Two weather and climate scientists explain what these two vital industries consider extreme, and how the impacts of any given extreme can vary greatly between sectors.
Extreme weather has already cost vulnerable island nations US$141 billion – or about US$2,000 per person
Around 38% of these costs can be attributed to climate change – new study.
Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020
Many storms, heatwaves, fires and droughts slipped under the radar this year.
How to protect communities from natural disasters – what research tells us
Knowing what makes an effective response to natural disasters will be increasingly important as the climate crisis intensifies.
Extreme storms and flood events cause damage worth billions to ports – and they are most disruptive to small island developing states
Natural disasters cause billions in damage to ports around the world each year.
Will the weather get worse in 2018? What the experts say
A survey of recent global trends in temperature and rainfall – and a lesson for Mr Trump on the difference between weather and climate.
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