UW launched the Paros Geohazard Center in February, a new facility within the College of the Environment that revolves around ...

There's a method to my disaster management. India is in a unique position with climate change. It’s a densely populated country that is prone to geohazards like earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and ...

Geohazards are increasing across the globe due to climate change and increase the risk of long-term disruption to transport systems. A reliable and efficient transport system/network is a major ...

A new report blames four runaway bitumen leaks at facilities operated by Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) on the company’s oil sands extraction process and geological factors. The findings ...

The Centers for Innovation and Community Engagement in Solid Earth Geohazards program supports university-based centers to advance research on the fundamental solid Earth processes that underpin ...

Cynthia Ebinger receives funding from US National Earthquake Hazards Program, NSF. She is affiliated with the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, Committee on Seismology and ...

As folks make plans to rebuild their homes in Mountain Shadows after the devastating Waldo Canyon fire, geologist John Himmelreich hopes they pause long enough to take a careful look at the soils ...

Extreme hazards - rare, high-impact events - pose a serious and underestimated threat to humanity. The extremes of the broad ensemble of natural and anthropogenic hazards can lead to global disasters ...

SEATTLE -- Scientists from the Pacific Northwest, including a Central Washington University professor, will speak during the Geohazards Symposium this weekend about geologic hazards and how to be ...

In a forest clearing at the end of a steep gravel road, UB geologist Andrew Harp poured sand into a hole loaded with dynamite-like explosive charges. It was a quiet day. Tall grasses rose in the ...

Extreme hazards -- rare, high-impact events -- pose a serious and underestimated threat to humanity. The extremes of the broad ensemble of natural and anthropogenic hazards can lead to global ...

Extreme hazards - rare, high-impact events - pose a serious and underestimated threat to humanity. The extremes of the broad ensemble of natural and anthropogenic hazards can lead to global disasters ...