2016

Thanks to Storm Desmond and the recent flooding in the north of England and Scotland, flood defenses are a hot topic.

The World Economic Forum's Global Risk Landscape for 2016 makes for sobering reading.

In October, I attended the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Backyards and Beyond Wildland Fire Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Here we are, smack dab in the middle of one of the strongest—if not the strongest—El Niño events in recorded history, and we get a hurricane in the Atlantic in January! 

While visiting the Big Island of Hawaii this past September, I was fortunate enough to cross an item off the top of my bucket list; I poked actively flowing lava with a stick!

Any conversation about Australia’s major natural hazards will likely include cyclones, floods, bushfires, hail, and even, on occasion, earthquakes. Many forget to consider tornadoes, given that they are a rarer phenomenon in Australia.