Heat Wave Adaptation Strategies among Informal Workers in an Urban Setting: A Study in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
Available online 11 January 2025
With the increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves globally, studying the adaptation strategies of informal workers, who constitute a significant and vulnerable segment of Dhaka's urban population,...
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The Shirur landslide of July 2024 was triggered by intense rainfall and unchecked development
Available online 10 January 2025
On the morning of July 16, 2024, a significant landslide occurred in Shirur of Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, India. The landslide claimed seven lives, leaving one person missing and severely disrupting...
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Potential laharic risks associated with the Millennium Eruption products of Tianchi volcano, NE China.
Available online 4 January 2025
Tianchi volcano has experienced continuous eruptions, including the Millennium Eruption (ME) event that produced a volcanic explosivity index of 6-7 in approximately 946 CE, which is among the most...
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FLOOD HAZARD ZONES PREDICTION USING MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED GEOSPATIAL APPROACH IN LOWER NIGER RIVER BASIN, NIGERIA
Available online 3 January 2025
Flooding has had devastating impacts on lives and properties over the years, caused as a result of climate change, rapid population growth, urbanization, and poor urban planning. The recurring events...
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Specific impacts of climate change on the hydrological patterns and land use dynamics in the Arghandab River Basin, Kandahar, Afghanistan
Available online 3 January 2025
Changes in rainfall patterns and warming temperatures brought on by greenhouse gas emissions have significant impact on the global hydrological cycle. The deteriorating physical properties of river...
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Bivariate landslide susceptibility analysis for parts of Kumaon Himalayas: A case study of Nainital town and its surroundings, India
Available online 2 January 2025
Landslides are viewed as a persistent problem in the Nainital and Almora districts of Kumaon Himalayas, since long. In this region, landslides have not only caused damage to property and life, but also...
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Advances in the study of natural disasters induced by the "23.7" extreme rainfall event in North China
Available online 2 January 2025
The article compiles and summarizes research on the natural disasters triggered by the "23.7" extreme rainfall in North China, utilizing the VOSViewer (Visualization of Similarities viewer) software...
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Surface creep differences and affecting factor along the Xianshuihe Fault Zone in response to the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquakes
Available online 1 January 2025
As the southwest and southeast boundaries of the Bayan Har block, the Xianshuihe Fault Zone (XSHFZ) and the Longmenshan Fault Zone (LMSFZ) are likely to be intrinsically related in terms of tectonic...
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Disaster, risk and crises in tourism and hospitality field: A pathway toward tourism and hospitality management framework for resilience and recovery process
December 2024
This study aims to review the documents in disasters, risk and crises to produce a generic model for developing a holistic framework in the tourism and hospitality industry. This study uses bibliometric...
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Susceptibility analysis of glacier debris flow by investigating glacier changes based on remote sensing imagery and deep learning: A case study
December 2024
Glacier debris flow is becoming increasingly severe as global warming intensifies. To minimize the catastrophic losses caused by glacier debris flow, it is essential to analyze the susceptibility of...
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Urban stormwater management under various runoff conditions for Arba Minch town of southern Ethiopia
December 2024
Ineffective urban stormwater management causes increased surface runoff, and impacts on infrastructure and human life. However, urban stormwater condition is not quantified in Arba Minch area, which...
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The aspects of food security and subsistence systems of climate-induced Hazards affected coastal people in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
December 2024
Climate change-induced hazards and environmental change pose great threats and vulnerabilities to the livelihoods and food security of forest-dependent coastal people in Bangladesh. Moreover, the recent...
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Cultural adaptation in the era of climate change: An ethnographic study on the resilience of indigenous people at Chittagong Hill Tracts area in Bangladesh
December 2024
Climate change has gained global recognition as one of the most urgent challenges in recent decades. Many indigenous people attempt to overcome great challenges in their lives by adhering to their cultural...
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Sustainable flood hazard mapping with GLOF: A Google Earth Engine approach
December 2024
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of Google Earth Engine (GEE) in mapping floods and their aftermath, focusing on the recent event caused by cloud burst rainfall and glacial lake outburst flood...
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Unravelling Bangalore's air quality during the second wave: Multifaceted analysis of COVID-19 lockdown impact
December 2024
This study assesses the impact of the second wave COVID-19 lockdown (March–June 2021) on air pollution levels in Bangalore, India, using real-time data from eight CPCB monitoring stations across the...
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Assessing vulnerability of fishermen communities in coastal Bangladesh: A “climate vulnerability index”- based study in Assasuni Upazila, Satkhira, Bangladesh
December 2024
Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) is developed to measure the susceptibility of communities to climate change using a case study. The index includes factors for each of the three aspects of vulnerability,...
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The role of large language models (AI chatbots) in fire engineering: An examination of technical questions against domain knowledge
December 2024
This communication presents a short review of chatbot technology and preliminary findings from comparing two recent chatbots, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, in the context of fire engineering by...
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Quantifying the riverbank erosion and accretion rate using DSAS model study from the lower Ganga River, India
December 2024
Assessing the erosion and accretion (EA) rate of the lower Ganga River in India is crucial for scientific planning and implementing development activities in river basin management. The current study...
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Desalination of oil field produced water using ion exchange system: As a remediation environmental hazard
December 2024
In this study, a novel integrated ion exchange resin system has been developed to remove salts from hazardous wastewater. Amberlite IR 120 and amberlite IR 400 have been used as the cation exchange...
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Cold wave induced mortalities in Bangladesh: Spatiotemporal analysis of 20 years’ data, 2000–2019
December 2024
The study aimed to explore the spatiotemporal patterns and characteristics of cold wave mortality in Bangladesh by developing a cold wave dataset using content analysis. Due to the absence of a formal...
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Irshalwadi landslide in Western Ghats of India: Observations from precursory slope movement, rainfall and soil moisture
December 2024
The Western Ghats of India, a UNESCO world heritage site, is gradually becoming a hotspot for catastrophic landslides. On July 19, 2023, the entire Irshalwadi village in the Raigad district of Maharashtra,...
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Tectonic stress regime and faulting style analysis due to sequence of earthquakes in Western Nepal
December 2024
The current study examines the source mechanism and the regional stress regime of a sequence of moderate-sized earthquakes between October 2022 and October 2023. ISOLA-GUI-a Matlab coded program has...
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Prediction of flood susceptibility in an inter-fluvial region of Northern India using machine learning algorithms
Available online 27 December 2024
Disastrous floods are the topmost alarming hydrometeorological calamities around the globe. The Ganga-Yamuna Interfluve region faces several flood hazards in its topographical and environmental scenario....
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A massive landslide damaged NHPC’s Teesta V Hydropower station on 20th August 2024 at Balutar, Sikkim Himalayas
Available online 24 December 2024
A gigantic landslide occurred at Dipu-Dara near Singtam of Himalayan State Sikkim above the powerhouse of the NHPC’s (National Hydroelectric Power Corporation) Teesta stage V dam power station on 20th...
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Development of Rainfall Threshold Equation and Bayesian Probabilistic Analysis for Landslide Prediction: A Case Study of Shimla, Northwestern Himalaya, India
Available online 24 December 2024
Landslides are the most dangerous and recurring disaster in mountainous regions. The majority of landslides in the Himalayas are triggered during the monsoon season as oversaturated slopes get destabilized...
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