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  • Building damage and collapse is an emerging problem, particularly in large cities in developing countries. Although engineering shortcomings are often blamed, land subsidence is an underappreciated culprit that could put tens of thousands of buildings at risk across Indian megacities.

    • Nitheshnirmal Sadhasivam
    • Leonard Ohenhen
    • Manoochehr Shirzaei
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 8, P: 1467-1479

  • Ohenhen et al. used space geodetic measurements to rigorously quantify land subsidence in the 28 most populous US cities. They find that over 20% of the area in each city is sinking, affecting approximately 34 million people and placing more than 29,000 buildings at high risk of damage.

    • Leonard O. Ohenhen
    • Guang Zhai
    • Manoochehr Shirzaei
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Cities
    Volume: 2, P: 543-554

  • The 2025 Los Angeles fires exposed the escalating threat of urban fires and their potential to trigger major human disasters. This Comment outlines key policy strategies to strengthen fire resilience and reframe urban fires as both a climate risk and a national security concern.

    • Amir AghaKouchak
    • Annika Hjelmstad
    • Joseph G. Allen
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Cities
    Volume: 2, P: 778-780

  • A global network of researchers was formed to investigate the role of human genetics in SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity; this paper reports 13 genome-wide significant loci and potentially actionable mechanisms in response to infection.

    • Mari E. K. Niemi
    • Juha Karjalainen
    • Chloe Donohue
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 600, P: 472-477

  • In Derna, Libya, a record-breaking storm and subsequent dam failures on September 10, 2023, caused over 11,000 deaths. Analyzing satellite data from 2016–2023, we found 1.8 mm/yr of differential settlement in dams contributed to their failure, and flooding damaged ~8570 buildings. We argue that the interplay of aging infrastructure, political instability, climate change, and human decisions drove this disaster, stressing the need for a holistic ‘healthcare’ management approach to prevent future catastrophes.

    • Manoochehr Shirzaei
    • Farshid Vahedifard
    • Amir AghaKouchak
    Comments & OpinionOpen Access
    npj Natural Hazards
    Volume: 2, P: 1-8