Changes to the landscape of food safety threats, and the introduction of new regulations to address these concerns increasingly have nutrition, economic, and equity implications. In September 2024, ...

A 2014 report by the U.S. Geological Survey noted that rockfalls “pose substantial hazard and risk to the approximately 4 million annual visitors to Yosemite National Park.” The USGS began ...

Cal Fire added at least 2.8 million Californians to fire hazard zones. Here's how to check which zone you're in and what that means.

Cal Fire’s refreshed maps show a large increase in areas considered hazardous: “High” and “very high” hazard zones have grown by 168 percent since 2011. That’s partly because computing ...

Extreme heat kills more people in the United States than any other weather hazard, and the risk of longer and more frequent heat waves is only expected to increase as climate change worsens. Heat ...

Hazard, again, are those factors that don't change frequently…where risk is really based on other conditions, other modifications. And the LA fires really were not wildfires.