The bill would create a national weather safety board to investigate deadly disasters and recommend changes for the future.

Researchers train AI to accurately recognize addresses and other location descriptions in Hurricane Harvey social media posts. A little over a year since its launch, ChatGPT's abilities are well known ...

On 30 July, one of the biggest earthquakes ever recorded struck eastern Russia, triggering tsunami alerts across Japan and the Pacific. It is a timely reminder that Japan faces such seismic threats ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has spiked the overdose death rate from opioid use. For people who rely on medications (buprenorphine, methadone, and extended-release naltrexone) to treat opioid use disorders, ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Disasters forced more than 26 million people in 148 countries to leave their homes in 2023, underscoring the growing dangers of more frequent floods, storms, wildfires and droughts. Last ...

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Landslides can cause devastating damage and can harm and kill people. These disasters arise from a variety of conditions all around the world, making them hard to predict and prepare for. Kamal Rana, ...

In recent years, the world has faced an onslaught of increasingly apocalyptic extreme weather events, which have become more frequent due to the climate crisis. Naturally, we might expect these ...

'The End Is Nye' shows The Science Guy coming back from disasters to save the world (again). It is streaming on Peacock now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Fires across the contiguous US have quadrupled in size and tripled in frequency since the year 2000, according to a new study. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate ...