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In what looked like a return to the dark days of Reefer Madness – a 1936 film that portrayed cannabis as a drug that could drive people to madness and murder – a recent article in the Daily Telegraph claimed that cannabis users are “twice as likely to be violent”. The claim comes from a systematic review by King’s College London that combined 63 studies covering more than 265,000 people. The researchers did, indeed, find a link between cannabis use and violence, but the headline overstates what the numbers can tell us.

A calamitous disaster more than a century ago still sends reverberations through Japanese society today. The nation observes Disaster Preparedness Day on the first day of September in commemoration of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. More than 100,000 people reportedly died in the earthquake and subsequent tsunami and firestorms that followed. DON'T MISS: How to safely react when an earthquake strikesA fault line ruptured southwest of Tokyo just before lunchtime on Sept. 1, 1923, unleashing a powerful earthquake across Japan’s east coast. Today’s estimates place the initial earthquake as a magnitude 8.0, with several additional intense tremors in the hours that followed. Earthquakes in populous areas are bad enough, especially in the days before adequate engineering to reinforce homes and businesses from the ground shifting and swaying beneath them. But the danger was far from over once the ground stopped rattling. Destructive tsunami waves crashed ashore in nearby communities, reaching as much as seven metres above ground level in the hardest-hit areas. Content continues belowFires broke out amid the destruction in Tokyo proper.

Fatal CrashLive streaming newscasts, breaking news, weather & original, local programming. ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Monday, October 19, 2026 3:20AMGARY, Ind. (WLS) -- A person died after a vehicle drove into a body of "contaminated water" in Northwest Indiana. A female caller contacted 911 to report her vehicle was sinking into a body of water near Buffington Harbor in Gary on Saturday, officials said Sunday. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchFirst responders arrived near the entrance of Indiana Sugar at Buffington Harbor. Surveillance footage from the location obtained by officer showed a white vehicle entering a body of water. Top Stories"Due to the hazardous conditions and contamination of the water, divers from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources were unable to safely enter the water to access the vehicle," an update from Gary officials read in part. "Recovery efforts were temporarily suspended while specialized equipment and resources were brought in to address the environmental conditions. Pumps were deployed to remove the contaminated water and lower the water level to facilitate recovery operations, continuing through the night.

We’re sharing this article early to provide faster access to peer-reviewed, accepted research. It is citable and carries a permanent DOI. This version is subject to further edits and will be replaced automatically by the final Version of Record. All legal disclaimers apply. AbstractExtreme precipitation events increasingly threaten historic buildings in river basins, yet existing studies lack a basin-scale perspective on nonlinear flood risk mechanisms. Taking the Minjiang River Basin as the study area, this research integrates hydrological simulation (SCS-CN), machine learning (XGBoost-SHAP), and spatial autocorrelation analysis to assess flood risk for 5482 historic buildings. Results reveal three key patterns: flood hazard decreases from downstream to upstream with belt-like aggregation along rivers; vulnerability shows a spatial mismatch, being higher upstream and lower downstream; integrated risk exhibits a southeast-high to northwest-low gradient with strong clustering in estuarine and midstream valleys. Key drivers, including impervious surfaces, vegetation cover, and topography, demonstrate significant nonlinear threshold effects and multi-factor coupling.