According to Bodoque, we need to improve flood-risk mapping too. There is a need to characterize vulnerability in a holistic manner, which implies considering the social, economic, physical, institutional, and cultural dimensions of what makes a community vulnerable to the weather. It is necessary to understand all components of what heightens people’s risk: not just […]
The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that was nearly dry on Sept. 30, 2014, in Oroville, California. Credit: Andrew Innerarity/California Department of Water Resources Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020–2022. A study by UCLA and […]
Major floods and landslides in Nepal have killed at least 100 people across the Himalayan nation, officials have reported. Dozens more were still missing on Sunday after two days of intense rainfall, which has inundated the valley around the capital Kathmandu. People have been left stranded on rooftops with workers carrying out rescuers on rafts. […]
