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With support from the secretariat of UNISDR, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union recently launched the ABU Early Warning Broadcast Media Initiative to encourage and instruct members to improve their broadcast warning systems reports Radio World...

Local government units (LGUs) in Aklan should invest time and effort to reduce disaster risks in their respective areas advised the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in the wake of typhoons and other natural calamities affecting the country year-round...

'The levees and spillways have held back most of this year's floods – but how should they be adapted for an eroding coastline and a changing climate?', ask Peter Aldhous and Ferris Jabr writing for the New Scientist...

This paper presents key messages for policy makers about water and climate change. It urges innovative institutional solutions to be found for closer collaboration with disaster risk reduction efforts. It also advocates for the establishment of

'The warming climate won't force the Pacific to dump heat into the air, but it might make El Niños and La Niñas more common' reports Michael Marshall for the New Scientist, looking at recent climate studies...

Phil McKenna from the New Scientist interviews Elizabeth Hausler, founder of Build Change, a non-profit organisation which designs and helps to build earthquake-resistant housing in developing countries and recipient of the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability...

The Corps of Engineers has released an updated Status Map of the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System, reports the Bayoubuzz. The color-keyed map illustrates the established 100-year risk reduction elevations for individual areas throughout the system...

This Water Stress index rates 17 countries as ‘extreme risk,’ with the Middle East and North African (MENA) nations of Bahrain (1), Qatar (2), Kuwait (3) Saudi Arabia (4) Libya (5), the disputed territory of Western Sahara (6), Yemen (7), Israel (8)