Natural Hazards - Collected Articles - 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026

For many Pacific Island nations, climate change isn’t a distant threat or an abstract statistic. Keep Reading

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans it's worth considering how common journalism techniques led to outrageous falsehoods about Black residents. Keep Reading

Two decades after Katrina, scientists can more easily quantify how global warming is intensifying hurricanes - and how it shaped past storms. Keep Reading

Opinion: A phase out of government liability for extreme weather events would be problematic and make the consequences of climate change an individual responsibility, writes Basil Sharp. Keep Reading

We take a look at the impacts one of the largest earthquake events recorded, on modern seismic equipment, had on Aotearoa New Zealand. Keep Reading

Read how infrastructure like Te Ara Tupua becomes a legacy when designed with interconnectedness, anticipating future challenges. Keep Reading

The earthquake in Kamchatka is the largest worldwide since 2011. Its location has been very seismically active in recent months. Keep Reading

Join us at Building Nations 2025 as we work together to shape the infrastructure Aotearoa needs for generations to come. Keep Reading

One of the winning team members in this year’s ArchEngBuild competition shares details of the nationwide cross-disciplinary learning experience. Keep Reading

If the government sets a cut-off date for bailing out residents after climate-related disasters such as the Tasman floods, the most vulnerable may suffer the worst. Keep Reading

It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and - as last week showed - deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood Keep Reading

The floods show that a shift in mindset is needed for disaster preparedness and our warming world, writes Bill Weir, CNN’s Chief Climate Correspondent. Keep Reading

Warnings predicted both Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way. Keep Reading

In part one of six parts, Andrew Barrie looks at the ground-breaking methods being developed to dispose of 1200 disaster-compromised houses across Auckland. Keep Reading

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In the early hours of Independence Day, rain pelted sleeping communities in central Texas. No one knew yet how devastating the storm would become. Keep Reading

GRI’s revised updates offer a more holistic, detailed, and socially attuned climate reporting framework, going beyond what’s required Keep Reading