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In Eastern Visayas, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is promoting bamboo cultivation by local government units in areas that have been tagged by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) as landslide-prone...

'The Water Development Board should be reformed to ensure people's participation at all stages of the project activities to make successful climate change adaptation programmes at a lower cost' says speakers at a recent seminar, calling for the participation of women and children in infrastructure planning...

With climate change, today’s ‘100-year floods’ may happen every three to 20 years, according to new research from researchers at MIT and Princeton University. MIT postdoc Ning Lin, lead author of the study, says knowing the frequency of storm surges may help urban and coastal planners design seawalls and other protective structures...

Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge for fast growing low and middle-income countries in East Asia, underscoring an urgent need to build flood risk management into regular planning of cities and towns. It provides operational guidance on how to manage the risk of floods in the face of urbanization, growing populations and long-term climate change trends...

In advance of critical rainfall forecasts for the Horn of Africa, the UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today announced a partnership with the WMO-supported African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) to ensure rapid dissemination of weather updates to disaster managers.

'The government is aware that there are pockets of drought, but unfortunately because of elections they are not doing enough about it,' said Abdou Aziz Diallo, president of the Senegalese Red Cross in Dakar. 'The elections make the whole response sensitive - we’re a bit blocked.'...

A resolution requesting the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council through the Mayor’s Office to conduct regular city-wide earthquake drills for all sectors, was passed by the Sangguniang Panglungsod of Bacolod City Wednesday...

El COPPE, instituto de posgrado de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, ha desarrollado una novedosa tecnología para la prevención de inundaciones y sequías, especialmente en la región amazónica...