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'Engaging youth is critical to including the whole community in national preparedness,' said FEMA administrator Craig Fugate, as Youth Preparedness Council members will visit Capitol Hill and learn how disaster management legislation moves through the legislative process...

'Le trivellazioni nell'ambito del 'Campi Flegrei Deep Drilling Project'. L'obiettivo è lo studio del supervulcano per mitigare i rischi. Già negli anni '70 e '80 in pieno bradisismo ci furono esplorazioni per scopi geotermici. Ma non tutti sono d'accordo...

Drought, floods and sea level rise are some of the natural hazards affecting food prices. Around 9.95 million people are still food insecure after drought hit the Horn in 2011, according to the World Bank. There are about 16 million people facing various levels of food insecurity in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda, said FEWS NET...

'The government of the self-declared republic of Somaliland is now planning to establish dams in the valleys to catch rain water, so come next year we would like to embark on water reserve projects' said the territory’s vice president, Abdi-Rahman Abdillahi Saylici...

The floods came just weeks after the President announced that the days of uncertainty during disasters would end after he launched Project Noah, a web-based system that provides real-time flood maps and weather alerts, run by the state weather bureau...

'Community Climate Change Project would protect the climate vulnerable people by enhancing their adaptability to drought, flood, and saline water intrusion risks. The communities will share the lessons learned with other vulnerable communities as well,' said Mr. Arastoo Khan, Additional Secretary, Economic Relations Division, Government of Bangladesh...

The Department of the Interior and Local Government has tapped the Girl Scouts of the Philippines to support the agency's disaster risk reduction and management and environmental programs...

Erratic water supply, warmer temperatures and severe flash floods - among others - left an extremely resilient community vulnerable and helpless in the face of climate changes: why SEEDS considers the integration of disaster risk reduction DRR and climate change adaptation CCA into local development planning as an imperative step in its 17-month action research project...