A natural event is a non-artificial event in the physical sense, and therefore not produced by humans, although it may affect humans (e.g. natural disasters). Upcoming events: DateEventPlace Dec 30, 20242nd December New Moon 2024EST Eastern Standard Time / UTC-05 ...
Utilizing data from a 2023 online survey, results support hypotheses that conservatives demonstrate lower climate concern and that fear of natural and environmental disasters increases climate concern. Interaction results show that fear of anthropogenic environmental disasters elicits greater climate concern ...
PenelopeKourkouli, inGeoinformatics for Geosciences, 2023 9.1Introduction Natural disastersare severe and extreme natural events that can have a detrimental impact on human lives and properties. In recent decades, natural catastrophes are happening more frequently, as shown inFig. 9.1. The most frequen...
Looking longer-term, the current fires are a good reminder that natural disasters stretch far beyond hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes, especially as the climate continues to change. A recent study found that increases in burned forest area across the western U.S. and southwestern Canada over the...
19Citations 44Altmetric Metrics Abstract Exposure to disasters and other extreme events is rising across the globe, but the impact on long-term mortality risks of affected populations is not established. We examine how mortality and individual-specific traumatic exposures at the time of the disaster...
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Given all of the above, the most likely nuisances for a foreigner in Lithuania are not outright crime or disasters but falling into some sort of tourist traps. Don't worry: Lithuanians are quite introverted and won't come to solicit. That said, the group of people most notorious for chea...
Individuals affected by disasters are at risk for adverse mental health sequelae. Individuals living in the US Gulf Coast have experienced many recent major disasters, but few studies have explored the cumulative burden of experiencing multiple disasters on mental health. Objective The objective of this...
2023 Has Been A Big Year For Natural Disasters In The U.S. There have already been 16natural disastersin the U.S. that have caused over a billion dollars in damage in 2023. Shocking: The Top 10 Most Awful and Terrible Disasters in Texas ...
Natural disasters and pregnancy outcomes in the USA CESifo Econ. Stud., 57 (3) (May 2011), pp. 403-431 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Torche, 2011 F. Torche The effect of maternal stress on birth outcomes: exploiting a natural experiment Demography, 48 (4) (2011), pp. 1473-...