Researchers train AI to accurately recognize addresses and other location descriptions in Hurricane Harvey social media posts. A little over a year since its launch, ChatGPT's abilities are well known ...

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An ad hoc committee will organize a 1.5-day public workshop to advance medical and public health research conducted during large-scale emergencies and disasters (“disaster science”) to benefit the ...

Landslides can cause devastating damage and can harm and kill people. These disasters arise from a variety of conditions all around the world, making them hard to predict and prepare for. Kamal Rana, ...

'The End Is Nye' shows The Science Guy coming back from disasters to save the world (again). It is streaming on Peacock now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Fires across the contiguous US have quadrupled in size and tripled in frequency since the year 2000, according to a new study. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate ...

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In recent years, it has become commonplace to assign at least partial responsibility for many disasters to climate change. This past month alone, the long-term effects of greenhouse-gas emissions were ...