This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this tragic event, it is also a moment to reflect on what ...
A study of 762,106 buildings damaged in Nepal's 2015 Gorkha earthquake combines an MLP classifier with imbalance correction, ...
Post-disaster reconstruction is rapidly increasing global demand for construction materials, which drives unsustainable resource extraction, poor debris management, and heightened environmental and ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeffrey Steele has been a freelance writer for one-third of a century. An aerial view of beachfront homes that burned in the ...