Jim Judge, a member of the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Board and director of emergency management for Volusia County in Florida, says the b...
Oceans and seas help fight climate change by absorbing more than 90% of the heat and 30% of the CO2 produced by pollution, according to the Ocean Conservancy. Yet the ocean can absorb less and less of these harmful greenhouse gases, meaning climate change is becoming a real problem. If we don't take action now to protect our oceans and seas, the damage to one of the most diverse and mysterious ecosystems,then our world's fish populations could be...
Earthquakes happen more often than we think and feel. To the average person who is not interested in this topic, this may sound strange, but it is a fact. Almost every day, somewhere in the world, there are ones that are recorded by various professional institutes. Some we feel them, some we don't, but their registration proves that it is happening. When the earth's surface shakes, due to the displacement of part of the earth's crust and the sud...
Natural disasters are powerful events triggered by the force of nature that affect millions of people around the world every year. They can completely change the environment that surrounds us and force entire communities to move literally overnight. Floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, droughts, tsunamis - all of these are catastrophic events because they destroy people's homes, take away their livelihoods and often result in th...