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Bonnyville Bridge failure and derailment (with river flow left to right).

Canada needs billions in bridge repairs, and climate change will drive that cost up: UCalgary researcher

2023 RMIN Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, Javier (Hobby) Pardo, BComm’94

Pivotal moment for insurance: 2022 ranks as 3rd-worst year for insured losses in Canadian history

Dr. Jeong Woo Kim and students

UCalgary researchers bring us one step closer to developing early-warning system for catastrophic earthquakes

students wearing masks sitting on a bench

A hack to stop hacking from smoky skies? Look no further than your N-95 mask

QuaziHassan

UCalgary prof hopes science can help mitigate future forest-fire disasters

A woman and children who were stranded by high water due to flooding are rescued by a volunteer operating a boat in Abbotsford, B.C., in November 2021.

Insurance isn’t enough: Governments need to do better on natural disaster resilience

Portrait of Dr. Julie Drolet, PhD

B.C. floods are wake-up call to adapt infrastructure to meet realities of climate change: UCalgary professor

A portion of the Coquihalla Highway near Hope, B.C., is destroyed following heavy rains and mudslides in B.C.

B.C. floods reveal fragile food supply chains — 4 ways to manage the crisis now and in the future

Disaster-mapping drones often neglect deadliest, costliest events and hardest-hit areas

Destroyed Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric plant after devastating debris flow of Feb 7, 2021.

Global coalition of scientists examine cause, scope of February 2021 disaster in India's Chamoli district