ArticleNature human behaviour2026
Uneven patterns of cross-border media coverage following natural disasters.
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Abstract
Many natural disasters central to climate-policy debates are hydro-meteorological hazards, yet it remains unclear how media attention is distributed across disaster types. Using 135 million news articles from 466 sources in 123 countries since 2016, we estimated cross-border reporting changes after disasters. Attention rises but is highly uneven (95% confidence intervals are shown in parentheses after the estimates): short-run increases are largest following earthquakes (β = 0.0785 (0.0758, 0.0812)), dry-mass movements (β = 0.0531 (0.0349, 0.0713)) and volcanic eruptions (β = 0.0425 (0.0359, 0.0490)), and smaller for floods (β = 0.0069 (0.0062, 0.0076)) and droughts (β = 0.0001 (-0.0036, 0.0039)). Conditional on severity and duration, hydro-meteorological disasters receive less attention than geophysical disasters (θ = -0.0065 (-0.0115, -0.0015)). Coverage is higher for 100+ versus 0-9 deaths (β = 0.0360 (0.0231, 0.0490)), with stronger fatality gradients for country pairs with tighter social ties (β = 0.1498 (0.0822, 0.2174)) and ancestral relatedness (β = 0.2965 (0.1887, 0.4043)).
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