Comment: The flat premiums that the Natural Hazards Commission charges means that safe places subsidise risky places, argues Dr Eric Crampton ...

The Iroquois County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan is now available for public review. The Iroquois County ...

Home owners could be asked to fork out up to about $400 more a year to prop up the country’s state disaster insurer. Treasury ...

North Queensland has a history of significant flood events, including one in 2019 that resulted in more than $1 billion in insured losses. Research indicated that proactive planning, improved ...

That’s imprudent, because the Arctic’s climate is changing more rapidly than anywhere on Earth. Such rapid warming further ...

More information: Ashim Sattar et al, The Sikkim flood of October 2023: drivers, causes and impacts of a multi-hazard cascade, Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.ads2659 ...

A recent study by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, has found that over 45% of Himachal Pradesh is extremely ...

An updated Hazard Mitigation Plan is being developed to identify problem areas and propose recommendations to address natural hazards that are increasing because of global warming.

pelicun is a Python package that provides tools for assessment of damage and losses due to natural hazard events. It uses a stochastic damage and loss model that is an extension of the high-resolution ...