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The United States also faces significant climate risks, from sea-level rise in Florida to forest die-back in the West. It’s very instructive for the United States to understand how Australia assessed its own risk and built institutions to forge a strong link between science and policymaking...

A new study that is about to be published in the Current Science predicts increased precipitation in intense bursts but in the same time water scarcity over the sub-continent of India in the next 20 years. Researchers used climate models that will be used for the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change...

Italy's principal natural-disaster risk-assessment body suspended its resignation, as a sign of 'solidarity with the scientific community on the part of the government.' The president of the Major Risks Commission credited the move to 'a very important and encouraging signal'...

The guidelines were revised to meet international standards and to enable local governments hosting nuclear plants to craft their own disaster mitigation plans and set the scope of the emergency zones by March...

The president of Federated States of Micronesia urged the United Nations General Assembly to confront climate change issues 'more urgently, and more creatively.' Mr Mori said that 'Our very existence depends on it. Without international cooperation and assistance, we are helpless against the adverse impacts of climate change'...

'Had scientists, well-trained in the communication of sensitive and uncertain information, been talking to people who understood the seismic hazard of their area and the nuances of probabilistic forecasting, the L’Aquila earthquake would have killed many fewer people'...

احتفلت جامعة النجاح الوطنية من خلال وحدة علوم الأرض وهندسة الزلازل في مركز التخطيط الحضري والحد من مخاطر الكوارث بافتتاح محطة الرصد الزلزالي ودراسات علوم الارض في منطقة العوجا.

The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, today urged other countries to follow the example of Croatia in recognising individual efforts to raise awareness of disaster risk in their own communities.