Tag Archives: tornados

#365climateimpacts: A crazy February heatwave and a tornado warning on March 1 (February 16-March 3)

Posted on March 3, 2017 by Anne Jefferson

Here are two more weeks of daily climate change impacts stories, as part of my #365climateimpacts project. I didn’t have to go very far from home to find inspiration for this fornight of tweets. We had an incredibly unusual heat … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, climate science, geohazards, hydrology, ice and glaciers

Natural disasters may not always hit hardest where you’d expect

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Chris Rowan

For many natural hazards, the actual risk is not purely a function of frequency and magnitude: politics, regulation and psychology are also a large influence on the potential human impact. Continue reading →

Categories: earthquakes, geohazards, society