A few months ago the largest wildfire in Nebraska history burned a thousand square-miles of ranch land. It burned every foot of grass on Mike and Kayla Wintz’s 11,000-acre ranch. But when they and their neighbors faced the threat of losing their livelihoods, something remarkable happened. Thousands of anonymous donors stepped up from across the […]
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If you knew a major storm or fire was heading toward your home, what would you save? Maybe your pet? A box of letters? The blanket that your grandma knitted for you as a baby? A pop-up exhibit led by the Climate Action Campaign and curated by Sam Hartman, an artist and survivor of Hurricane […]
Newly observed negative-phase waveforms in earthquake data have alerted scientists to a previously unrecognized feature of the "big ones" to do with tectonic plates slipping by each other: they create a kind of geological 'whiplash' that happens when a rupturing fault movement abruptly stops.
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Edited From original article in CU Boulder Today by Lisa Marshall At the peak of the pandemic in 2021, teenagers from Sackets Harbor, New York, got certified as ambulance drivers and took over running the local emergency medical service when the usual, much older, volunteers had to step away due to COVID-19 concerns. In Los […]
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Mary Creasman had insurance on her mind as she made her way to the California Capitol on Earth Day. Creasman, of the nonprofit California Environmental Voters, was in Sacramento Wednesday to support California Senate Bill 982 after it was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The bill, also called the Affordable Insurance and […]
Disaster sites vary as widely as rescue missions. Using robotics to help often requires multiple robots to survey, climb, lift, or manipulate objects. Athena unites all these capabilities in a single, rugged, autonomous platform built for search and rescue.
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Presenting trillion-dollar model outputs as settled economic fact is bad journalism and the BBC should be ashamed for presenting such easily falsified rubbish as fact. That’s the true disaster here.
This story is a partnership between Inside Climate News and Honolulu Civil Beat. Nancy Sidun has been counseling disaster survivors at a state-run mental health clinic in Lahaina, Hawaii, since just after the devastating wildfires in August 2023. Now, it’s her last week—and she wishes it hadn’t come to this. For two and a half […]
On Friday, March 13, Duke’s Malibu reopened its doors after a 14-month closure. The iconic restaurant suffered a double blow after 2025’s devastating Palisades Fire, which left smoke damage throughout the structure, followed, shortly thereafter, by mudslide damage. The reopening also marks a more celebratory occasion: Duke’s 30th anniversary. Construction delays kept Duke’s from its […]
A University of Houston scientist is helping reveal the world’s weakest bridges—and how to fix them before it’s too late. In a study of 744 bridges across the globe, an international team found that by combining radar and satellite imaging into risk calculations, engineers can identify which bridges are at risk of structural damage long […]
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A wife used her “Find My iPhone” feature to guide search and rescue to the location of her husband who had been buried in an avalanche. Michael Harris was skiing the Big Chief Bowl at Stevens Pass Ski Resort in late February when the snowpack suddenly gave way beneath him. He was caught in an […]
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A spray-on powder that instantly seals life-threatening wounds could save thousands of lives, say scientists. The new substance can help prevent excessive bleeding which is the leading cause of death due to injuries in war, according to a study. The fast-acting powder that stops bleeding in just one second was developed by South Korean scientists […]
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