Category: Natural Disasters4
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Upcoming Scientific Fieldwork, 2023 and Beyond
Climate School researchers are carrying out fieldwork on every continent and every ocean. A guide to upcoming projects.
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Why It’s So Hard to Be Prepared for Disasters
Disaster expert Jeffrey Schlegelmilch discusses February’s devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the challenges to building resilience, and how emergencies can reveal the inner workings of a society.
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Should We Stop Using the Term ‘Natural Disaster’?
The words we use to describe events matter. Would a different term elicit more substantial change?
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What We Need to Learn From Climate-Accelerated Extreme Weather Events
We need to build our response capacity leading up to extreme-weather emergencies and implement a more systematic and assured process of reconstruction for victims in the aftermath.
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Towering Wildfire Clouds Are Affecting the Stratosphere, and the Climate
Aircraft collecting data from clouds of smoke have revealed surprising effects of wildfires on the ground.
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Gauging Losses and Lessons in Turkey’s Unfolding Earthquake Tragedy
As earthquake engineers stress, most of the time, buildings kill people, not the shaking itself. It’s exceedingly hard to unbuild, move back, or retrofit buildings at scale.
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New Trainings Will Lead the Way on Climate Resilience and Equitable Disaster Response
With a $1.5 million grant from FEMA, Columbia Climate School’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness will create and deliver trainings on climate resilience with a focus on equity for state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency managers.
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Flooding in California: What Went Wrong, and What Comes Next
Climate School experts help to explain this devastating weather and what it means in the broader conversation of climate change and disaster response.
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What Climate Resilience Policies Are in Store for State Legislatures in 2023?
States have already filed at least 39 bills related to disaster resilience. Here, a closer look at what they focus on.