Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

A new study published in Big Earth Data introduces Geo-Disasters, a new database designed to improve the usability of global disaster records for climate risk research and policy planning. Climate ...

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Writer and director Thunder Levin (the twisted mind behind the Sharknado franchise) has an obvious penchant for smashing seemingly unrelated threats together. He took that philosophy to the ultimate ...

Natural disasters disrupt societies, strain national economies and claim thousands of lives each year. Storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and prolonged droughts damage infrastructure, ...

Brian Tomaszewski PhD is a geographic information scientist with research interests in the domains of geographic information science and technology, geographic visualization, spatial thinking, ...

Using a simulated disaster scenario of a chemical accident on a highway near their school, Livonia High School students soon discovered how important geographic information systems and imaging science ...

The Indian government has launched a nationwide Cell Broadcast System (CBS) for real-time, geo-targeted disaster alerts.

The government on Saturday launched a nationwide Cell Broadcast System (CBS), enabling near real-time, geo-targeted emergency ...