In it, the authors make clear that while global attention has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic — for good reason — the climate crisis and the resulting disasters facing communities ...

One thing is clear: the way that the COVID-19 crisis is handled now strongly influences the potential impacts of any natural disasters. There is a history of epidemics following natural disasters.

> Most common natural disaster: Epidemic (43 incidents since 1900) > Deadliest disaster since 1900: April 1983 drought (150,000 deaths) > Total population: 44.9 million ...

Manmade disasters can be hard to see with the human ... as opposed to the longer-term closures Americans saw during the pandemic, said Rebecca Miller, a postdoctoral scholar with the West on ...

The risk that epidemics of infectious disease will occur is proportional to the population density and displacement. A true epidemic can occur in susceptible populations in the presence or ...

The city is no stranger to disaster, having weathered wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, financial crashes, and a slew of population-decimating epidemics. And at each desperate juncture ...

Disasters definitely turn people's personality ... During the first months of the pandemic, Sutin's team found little personality change. "The change we did find was a decline in neuroticism ...

Geopolitical tensions further complicate global logistics. Conflict in the Middle East has cut Suez Canal traffic by 50 per ...

It is not possible to invest in an index. Natural Disaster/Epidemic Risk - Natural or environmental disasters, such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis and other severe weather ...