Database Category: Compounding Hazards & Natural Disasters

A federal judge gave PG&E Corp. a green light to exit bankruptcy, but the California utility is leaving chapter 11 more leveraged than ever after settling billions of dollars in liability claims from wildfires sparked by its equipment.

Food systems are fundamental to human health and flourishing and constitute one of the major pathways of human impact on the environment. Impacts include habitat loss (which is implicated in the spread of zoonotic disease like COVID-19), water resource depletion, perturbation of biochemical cycling (including greenhouse gas emissions), pollution, and waste to name just a […]

Although Croatia was struck by a major earthquake amidst the COVID-19 epidemic, the spread of the epidemic has not accelerated and the country still has one of the lowest COVID-19 rates in Europe

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