NOAA Predicts More Hurricanes Than Usual This Year
Urban Climate Resiliency: New Microgrid Systems for New Storms Today, we stand at a crossroad where two complex challenges will either collide to make for an American future cast in … Continue reading
Scores killed in floods, landslides in Sri Lanka
A Responsibility to Light: An Illustrated Manifesto for Creative Resilience and the Artist’s Duty in Dark Times Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton and writer Courtney E. Martin offer a heartening answer in … Continue reading
Conflicts, disasters uprooted over 31 million people in 2016
United States Saw Record Cargo Theft, Natural Disasters Impact Commercial Supply Chain While global supply chains across the world saw many new threats and hardships in 2016, cargo theft remained … Continue reading
PTSD, alcohol use disorder common in adolescents exposed to natural disasters
The Global Seed Vault That Is Supposed to Help Protect Us from Natural Disasters Just Suffered a Natural Disaster Climate change, it appears, can get to us everywhere. Even in … Continue reading
Resilience in face of disasters
Resilience in face of disasters THE people of Ra were commended for their resilience in the face of unprecedented natural disasters during World Meteorological Day celebrations in Rakiraki yesterday. Minister … Continue reading
Virtual Disaster Recovery … is there such a thing?
Peru’s small-scale farmers need help to recover from damage triggered by coastal El Niño Small-scale farmers in Peru need urgent assistance to cultivate crops and feed their families in the … Continue reading
Trump’s Response To Disaster Relief Raises Alarms
From famine relief to resilience About 20 million people face starvation in four countries: Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria, the United Nations says. Armed conflict, combined with drought and … Continue reading
How to prepare for a natural disaster
Sea level rise will double coastal flood risk worldwide Small but inevitable rises in sea level will double the frequency of severe coastal flooding in most of the world with … Continue reading
Electricity trial to pay users to cut power during high demand or natural disasters
Disaster-Proofing Cambodia: New Phase of Disaster Resilience Work Gets Underway The programme, which commenced in July 2016, aims to help at least 150,000 Cambodians prepare for droughts, floods and storms. … Continue reading
World’s deadliest storms from tornadoes to cyclones, lightning and hail
World’s deadliest storms from tornadoes to cyclones, lightning and hail The most deadly storms in recorded history have been identified by the World Meteorological Organisation for five different types. As … Continue reading
Will America’s Summer Be Uncomfortably Hot?
University of Fredericton launches online course to enhance resiliency, help students cope with stress According to the Mental Health Commission of Canada, more than a quarter of Canadians perceive work-related … Continue reading
“Resilience Bonds”: Secret Weapon Against Catastrophe
Urban disasters highlight need for resilience in Africa Rising disasters in Africa’s cities and their links with poverty and rapid, unplanned urbanisation are ever more apparent from tragedies such as … Continue reading
Natural disasters – How prepared are India’s health systems?
Logan to benefit from state request for $220m in flood funding LOGAN flood victims were given renewed hope on Wednesday night after the state government called on the federal government … Continue reading
Resilient Australia Awards
Extra $220M package to assist Queenslanders bounce back from TC Debbie The Palaszczuk Government has proposed it and the Turnbull Government jointly fund a $220 million package to provide additional … Continue reading
A cyclone in Madagascar could mean you’ll pay more for ice cream this summer
Resilience advocates enlighten lawmakers on disaster mitigation, funding reform A recent hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency … Continue reading
Gender Inequality In Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts
Vets to beef up animal rescues during disasters in Japan A campaign is under way to create emergency response teams across Japan to rescue pets and livestock during natural disasters. … Continue reading
Are you prepared?
The great wave: debris from the Japanese tsunami – in pictures Tomohiro Muda photographs artefacts left behind after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan and damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant … Continue reading
Sheryl Sandberg Talks Personal Resilience
Sheryl Sandberg Talks Personal Resilience and Business Ruthlessness Emotional and professional ones, that is. The chief operating officer of Facebook and co-author of Option B, a recent memoir about her … Continue reading
World Bank: let climate-threatened Pacific islanders migrate to Australia or NZ
World Bank: let climate-threatened Pacific islanders migrate to Australia or NZ Australia and New Zealand should allow open migration for citizens of Pacific nations threatened by climate change, to boost … Continue reading
When Resilience is Needed – Barriers to Progress
Floods ravage Quebec, man and child swept away The Canadian province is suffering from its highest floodwaters in decades. Authorities in Montreal have declared a state of emergency… When … Continue reading
A case for freshwater resilience
Banks risk data damage to disasters Data centres of 58 per cent banks run the risk of being damaged in disasters like earthquake and fire due to their location in … Continue reading
Mississippi River cresting in flood-hit Illinois, southern Missouri
Mississippi River cresting in flood-hit Illinois, southern Missouri Nearly 10 million people across the Midwest were under a flood warning Saturday as several spots along the Mississippi River were expected … Continue reading
Renters claim ‘no one cares’ after Debbie
Qld unveils comprehensive flood study The Queensland government and four local councils say Australia’s most comprehensive flood study will provide a greater understanding of the dangers of the Brisbane River. … Continue reading
Housing Group Initiative Aims to Reduce Damage Caused By Natural Disasters
Serbia Improves Response to Natural Disasters with World Bank Help Serbia will be better equipped to rapidly respond to its population in the aftermath of a natural disaster thanks to … Continue reading
Explosive cheese, lethal beer and poisonous orange juice: when food causes natural disasters
Explosive cheese, lethal beer and poisonous orange juice: when food causes natural disasters How come Hollywood never makes disaster movies about culinary ingredients? Why don’t you ever see Chris Hemsworth … Continue reading
Japan steelmakers scramble for coking coal to make up Debbie losses
China looks to insurance to stem mounting disaster loss When heavy rains triggered floods in China last year, washing away homes, causing landslides and flooding farmland, the damage resulted in … Continue reading
How the world breaks: An intimate look at recent global natural weather disasters
Flood-mitigation project would replace Boulder Creek bridges University of Colorado Boulder planners are inviting public input on a flood-mitigation project that would include removing a pair of bridges over Boulder … Continue reading
And in the rest of the world: Disasters
Despite natural disasters Peru aims to double ag-exports by 2021 Reconstruction will help fulfill the goal of doubling agro-exports in 2021, despite natural disasters that struck the country, Association of … Continue reading
14 killed by storms and flooding in South and Midwest
14 killed by storms and flooding in South and Midwest At least 14 people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the South and Midwest by a storm that … Continue reading
Sheryl Sandberg Picks ‘Option B’ in Her Book on Resilience
Powerful quake hits Chile, no deaths reported Chile’s been rocked by a major earthquake, but there are no reports of any deaths or serious damage. With a magnitude of 7.1, … Continue reading
Underwater volcano eruptions allow new bacteria to take over seafloor
Put a price on the costs of disasters, says UN risk chief Robert Glasser Calculating the costs of natural disasters is a valuable way for governments to recognize and limit the … Continue reading
