BUFFALO, N.Y. — A little over a year since its launch, ChatGPT’s abilities are well known. The machine learning model can write a decent college-level essay and hold a conversation in an almost ...

The flagship US climate-disaster database has been revived, revealing that extreme weather inflicted $101 billion in damages ...

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Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, landslides, wildfires and droughts are increasing in frequency and intensity, in large part because of climate change (M. Coronese et al. Proc ...

A small tractor clears water from a business as floodwaters block a street in Barre, Vermont, in July 2023. Heavy flooding last year devastated many Vermont communities. Now, state lawmakers are ...

Photo: Christian Martinez/Office of the Governor. As if predicting weather isn’t difficult enough, the Trump administration’s firing of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Extreme weather events and climate disasters displaced more than 43 million children around the globe between 2016 and 2021, according to a new report from UNICEF. And the United Nations ...

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 ...

Human activities have been the major driver of climate change since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s. As greenhouse gas levels, primarily carbon dioxide due to the burning of ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. highlights the crucial role of space science and technology in strengthening disaster response, climate resilience, and sustainable development during his address at the ...

While Florida recovers from Hurricane Milton, the second dangerous storm to hit the U.S. Southeast in just a couple of weeks, a flood of misinformation threatens to compound the disasters. A major ...

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 ...