Emergency preparedness tips for seniors
Warren Buffett warns of natural or human-made ‘megacatastrophe,’ and says our losses will be huge Record-breaking investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett released his yearly letter on Saturday, and … Continue reading
The art of being prepared
How To Protect Yourself From Real Estate Disasters As a 17-year real estate investor, I could also be the northernmost real estate professional you know. You might have heard … Continue reading
New study highlights significance of resilience training
Townsville homes may become ‘uninsurable’ due to flooding from climate change Houses in flood-hit Townsville and other parts of north Queensland are “on track to become uninsurable”, according to analysis … Continue reading
Japan wants to boost the use of electric vehicles as a power source during natural disasters
Japan wants to boost the use of electric vehicles as a power source during natural disasters Japan, a country which frequently suffers natural calamities such as tsunamis, typhoons, and earthquakes—which … Continue reading
The First (Very Early) Forecast for the 2019 Hurricane Season Is Here
Japan Sends Robot Into the Nuclear Hell of the Fukushima Reactor The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) just sent a robot into one of the reactors of the Fukushima nuclear … Continue reading
Social media can improve lives post-disaster – new research
Failed wildfire evacuation of Santa Rosa care homes fuels new bill to protect seniors The abandonment of residents at two Santa Rosa senior homes during the October 2017 wildfires has … Continue reading
Nurses Not Immune to Stress from Disaster
Scientists Just Made It Possible to Predict The Weather Further Ahead Than Ever Before Most of us have been caught out by weather forecasts that didn’t quite turn out … Continue reading
Tackling drought with data visualisation
How climate change can make catastrophic weather systems linger for longer Many parts of Australia have suffered a run of severe and, in some cases, unprecedented weather events this summer. … Continue reading
What Black History Month Can Teach Us About Resilience
Preparing for resilience in disasters With large-scale disasters from coast to coast fresh on the minds of many, the importance of emergency preparedness is especially pertinent. Most recently, for … Continue reading
Three ways to get people talking about mental health in the workplace
Your Two Choices: Presented to You Every Moment of Your Life Our brains display tremendous complexity. They are more elaborate than the greatest computers ever produced. One of the behavioral … Continue reading
Should You Crack Your House Windows for a Hurricane?
A flooded house might not be as ‘terminal’ as a bushfire or cyclone but the clean-up is just as invasive Authorities have begun the huge task of assessing the damage … Continue reading
An earthquake lasted 50 days, but no one felt it. Here’s why.
10 best earthquake apps and earthquake tracker apps for Android! Earthquakes range from mildly annoying to destructively terrifying. However, there are some apps out there that give you an advantage. … Continue reading
Why Australia should be more prepared for extreme weather
A climate resilience strategy for the Caribbean The back-to-back category 5 hurricanes that led to heart wrenching human suffering and damages is clear evidence that the Caribbean is becoming increasingly … Continue reading
Natural Disasters: The Challenge of Saving Lives
Despite experience with typhoons, most Filipinos ‘not prepared for disasters’ Although the Philippines faces an average of 20 typhoons a year, only 36% of Filipinos feel they are completely prepared … Continue reading
Floods, fire and drought: Australia, a country in the grip of extreme weather bingo
Fungi after the floods: how to get rid of mould to protect your health As Townsville residents continue the clean-up following January’s flooding, microscopic fungi, commonly called mould, will be … Continue reading
Landslides triggered by Hurricane Maria
Black Saturday: What have we learnt? In the ten years since the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009, many improvements have happened in fire prevention and management, writes Dr John Iser. … Continue reading
Hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly and it may be our fault
Hurricane Harvey left Houston with crisis in affordable housing Did you realize that Houston was left in a severe affordable housing crisis after Hurricane Harvey? A year and a half … Continue reading
Increasing Your Business’s Recession Resilience
BS67000: setting the standard for city resilience City resilience is critically important to economic, organizational, and community well-being. This has been recognised by the development of a standard for city … Continue reading
5 steps to creating a mentally healthy workplace
State schools must practise debating and other resilience skills to compete with the old boys network of Eton, education secretary says State school pupils must practise debating and public speaking … Continue reading
Being kinder to yourself can boost your physical and mental wellbeing, study says
Trauma, Resilience & Healing – 20 Alaskan Artists Create Storytelling Murals Seven unique storytelling murals by 20 different Alaskan artists will be unveiled at a special reception at the Church … Continue reading
Disaster relief as a threat to state sovereignty
Maternal depression and natural disaster-related stress may affect infants’ temperament A new Infant Mental Health Journal study demonstrates that prenatal maternal depression has important consequences for infant temperament. Furthermore, the … Continue reading
How can Australia better prepare itself for natural disasters?
AgForce calls on banks to show compassion for farmers hurt by Townsville floods Banks need to cut farmers some slack from default interest repayments and show some compassion following the … Continue reading
6 ways to build resilience and adapt to the stresses in farming
We must remember Hurricane Michael’s lessons | Opinion Just four months ago, Hurricane Michael made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, the strongest storm to strike the Florida Panhandle … Continue reading
European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say
Earthquake and tsunami fears erupt on social media in Japan as ‘bad omen’ oarfish spotted Social media in Japan has exploded after a number of deep-sea fish were caught. People … Continue reading
New NASA Visualization Shows What the Dreaded Polar Vortex Really Looks Like
Extreme weather shatters records around the world US cities as cold as the Arctic. An Australian inferno. The UK covered in snow. It’s only one month into 2019 and meteorologists … Continue reading
Top 10 worst floods in Australia
North Queensland flood crisis worsens North Queensland residents remain on high alert as officials fear a catastrophic flood disaster with more record-breaking downpours on the way. The Bureau of Meteorology … Continue reading
Climate resilience: More than a third of Londoners think city can’t cope with natural disasters
Business resilience should be a core company strategy, so why are businesses struggling to take action? A recent survey showed that only 51% of U.S. business decision makers say their … Continue reading
7 key figures: Breaking down the cost of natural disasters in 2018
Fears of further destruction from Tasmania bushfires Crews battling bushfires in Tasmania are preparing for hot and dry conditions, with 12 emergency alerts issued and continued threats to property. … Continue reading
