Jacob Evans, Risk Frontiers (jacob.evans@riskfrontiers.com) Cyclocopters are a new concept of drone that has recently shown success in development, garnering significant interest from leading robotic institutions and the US Army. The commercially available drones most people are familiar with are…
The following briefing, by Esprit Smith of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was published on the NASA website on 24 May 2018. The study described below considers projections based on two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) – 4.5 and 8.5. There are…
This article by Fran Molloy was published in yesterday’s issue of Macquarie University’s The Lighthouse. New research shows that most Australian drivers think they can work out when it is safe to enter flood waters – as foolhardy Hobart drivers proved…
The new QuakeAUS: impact of revised GA earthquake magnitudes on hazards and losses Paul Somerville and Valentina Koschatsky, Risk Frontiers Geoscience Australia (GA) is updating the seismic hazard model for Australia through the National Seismic Hazard Assessment (NSHA18) project (Allen…
Thomas Mortlock and Paul Somerville, Risk Frontiers. The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers in Antarctica are flowing toward the Amundsen Sea along a 250 km wide front. Further inland, the glaciers widen into a 3 km thick mass of ice…
By Tahiry Rabehaja. Email: tahiry.rabehaja@riskfrontiers.com. 2017 was not a good year for cyber security. Victims ranged from small businesses to corporate giants such as Equifax, Deloitte and Kmart with the impacts of ‘improved’ ransomware such as WannaCry and NotPetya just two…
