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Understanding the Terror Attacks in Sri Lanka
A decade ago, an RMS colleague traveling to Bali for a climate change conference sought my advice on where to stay to minimize the risk of…
Disaster Risk Reduction: Avoiding the Inevitable
While natural hazards are inevitable, their impact on any given community is not. This is the thrust of the #NoNaturalDisasters campaign.…
Spring into Action: U.S. Severe Convective Storm...
Last weekend (April 13-14) marked the first major U.S. severe convective storm (SCS) outbreak of 2019. Drawing energy from warm, humid air…
Cricket Balls from the Sky: Twenty-Year Retrospe...
Still ranked within the top three largest insured loss events in Australia’s history, it has now been twenty years since a hailstorm shattered…
Data Drives Dividends
In the four years since the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the range of stakeholders taking part in the UN’s…
The All-Peril Cat Five
Why the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale had five levels we don’t know. The digits on a hand? Better than three, but lower resolution…