Update

New legislation will be introduced in Trinidad next year to enforce developers to pay compensation to owners of property damaged by floods and landslides due to poor building practices...

Most of Kathmandu’s 50 hospitals are poorly built and would collapse if there were a major earthquake, experts warn. They also note that health institutions lack emergency response plans and are generally ill-prepared...

The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event according to a group of earthquake researchers led by scientists from the Tectonics Observatory at the California Institute of Technology...

The first maps covering the whole of Switzerland and detailing areas at risk of flooding have just been released by the Federal Environment Office and reinsurance firm Swiss Re...

Berne - L'Office fédéral de l'environnement (OFEV) a établi les cartes nationales des zones inondables avec Swiss Re. Il existe ainsi une autre possibilité de détecter les zones menacées d'inondation...

The redesigned UN-Water website is hoped to contribute in a meaningful way to global efforts to reach the water and sanitation targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals and the World Summit on Sustainable Development...

The Met Office, in partnership with the Environment Agency, is to play a key role in flood forecasting following the establishment of a Flood Forecasting Centre for England and Wales...

'Sea level is rising nearly twice as fast as the previous 100 years' said Laury Miller from NOAA "If this rate continues unchanged during the coming decades, it will have a huge impact on erosion and flooding in coastal regions'...

The UN today launched guidelines to help States pre-emptively amass the data vital for effective relief operations to avoid compounding the original catastrophe...

The year 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year on record since the beginning of the instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)....