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• What Makes a Disaster "Natural"? The Equation Behind Every Headline
  Earthquakes do not kill people; buildings do. Floods do not drown cities; houses in the wrong place do. Disaster science has carried one deceptively simple formula since the 1970s — hazard times exposure times vulnerability — and using it changes how every headline about catastrophe should be read.
• What Is El Niño (and La Niña)? The Pacific Cycle That Rewires Global Weather
  Every few years the tropical Pacific shifts between warm, cold and neutral phases — and droughts, floods, hurricane seasons and food prices around the world shift with it. Here is how the El Niño–Southern Oscillation actually works, how scientists measure it, and why a patch of warm water 10,000 kilometres away changes your weather.
• How River Flood Forecasts Work — and What the Flow Number Means
  "290 m³/s, at the 91st percentile of the past year" is a sentence that can decide whether you move a car to higher ground. A guide to discharge, river gauges, and satellite flood models.