Hurricane Helene set up future disasters, from landslides to flooding – cascading hazards like these are now upending risk models

Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggests new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Brian J. Yanites, Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science. Professor of Surficial and Sedimentary Geology, Indiana University • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~7 min

Natural disasters don’t disappear when the storm ends or the earthquake stops – they evolve

Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggest new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Brian J. Yanites, Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science. Professor of Surficial and Sedimentary Geology, Indiana University • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~7 min

Natural hazards don’t disappear when the storm ends or the earthquake stops – they evolve

Risk models can’t rely just on the past anymore. A team of geoscientists suggest new ways to forecast evolving hazards in real time as cascading disaster risk worsens.

Brian J. Yanites, Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science. Professor of Surficial and Sedimentary Geology, Indiana University • conversation
June 26, 2025 • ~7 min

How restoring river catchments can minimise drought and flood risks

Natural infrastructure can be restored in ways that reduce both flood risk and the effects of drought.

Neil Macdonald, Senior Lecturer in Risk, University of Liverpool • conversation
June 24, 2025 • ~8 min

Low-income homeowners hit by disasters may get less help from the government, as Trump administration nixes rules on fairness, community input and resilience

Changes made to comply with executive orders could interfere with the mission of a program that has historically helped some of the people who most need a hand.

Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University • conversation
June 20, 2025 • ~8 min

Inroads to personalized AI trip planning

A new framework from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab supercharges language models, so they can reason over, interactively develop, and verify valid, complex travel agendas.

Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab • mit
June 10, 2025 • ~9 min

How the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ positions US energy to be more costly for consumers and the climate

Some technologies could rapidly cut emissions, while others do little to fight climate change. The House bill favors the latter while nixing support for the former.

Daniel Cohan, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University • conversation
June 10, 2025 • ~10 min

Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum

Dippy has been seen up close by more people around the world than any other dinosaur.

Michael J. Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol • conversation
June 5, 2025 • ~7 min

Storm damage costs are often a mystery – that’s a problem for understanding extreme weather risk

Forecasters already patch together very rough estimates, and ending NOAA’s ‘billion-dollar disasters’ list means less access to insurance data. Texas’ state climatologists explain why that matters.

William Baule, Research Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University • conversation
June 4, 2025 • ~9 min

What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail

Vibe coding is a buzzy phrase that describes using AI language tools to write software. You enter a natural language phrase for what you want – to a point – and get back code.

Chetan Jaiswal, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Quinnipiac University • conversation
June 4, 2025 • ~5 min

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