EDITOR’S NOTE: Robert Lewin is the former chief California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)/San Luis Obispo County Fire, capping off a 38-year fire service career, and former ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Fig. 2: Most impactful weather and climate-related disasters of 2022 and the extent to which we know the role of human-induced ...

Natural disasters occur when environmental systems have a disruptive effect on the socio-economic system. In recent years, particular unreasonable human behaviours have amplified losses from natural ...

Rumors and lies about government responses to natural disasters are not new. Politics, misinformation and blame-shifting have long surrounded government response efforts. When Hurricane Harvey hit ...

Disasters. Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Terrorist attacks. Climate change. All have the capacity for immense suffering. But such catastrophes also provide tremendous opportunities to enhance the ...

Social media posts are recirculating a bar chart that depicts falling numbers of deaths due to weather-related disasters over the last century alongside comments suggesting that the significance of ...

As COVID-19 first broke in March 2020 and California wildfires raged, one thing became clear: The field of psychiatry needed a new way of thinking about and responding to complicated, overlapping ...

In the past two decades, disasters have left a devastating impact, claiming over a million lives and causing nearly US$3 trillion in global economic losses, according to the United Nations Office for ...

Each catastrophe is a test of what kind of society we’ve built. And each recovery offers a chance, however fleeting, to build another. Credit...Jamie Chung for The New York Times. Concept by Pablo ...