The animal kingdom is full of wonders, and there’s still so much we have yet to discover. One mystery that has puzzled humans for years is how some animals seem to sense an earthquake or tsunami ...

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We know that heatwaves often trigger bushfires. But predicting when and where large fires will break out is getting more ...

Norwegian startup 7Analytics has secured €4mn to help predict the next big flood or landslide. The Bergen-based outfit trains machine learning algorithms on vast quantities of data on everything from ...

Summer is one of the busiest travel times of the year, but some people who have upcoming itineraries in Japan may be rethinking their plans. The reason: a Japanese comic book, or manga, that warns of ...

Expert climate scientists at Columbia University have developed a new interactive tool that can help predict natural disasters so the government can prepare for them. They led the U.S. Natural Hazards ...

Our ability to predict extreme weather from thunderstorms, like the recent catastrophic flash floods in Texas, is unsettlingly poor, even in the hours leading up to the event. Improvements in ...

People would be more likely to act if they feel threatened by a hazard, rather than a disaster, concludes a new study from New Zealand Having surveyed 604 people in Wellington, New Zealand, the team ...