Updates

The Chinese President showed particular concern over disaster prevention and reduction and called for 'giving priority to the study and to forecasting' of natural hazard-related disasters...

A new project, that will strengthen institutional capacities to reduce Albania’s vulnerability to the natural and man-made hazards, was approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors....

The European Parliament in a resolution stresses the need to increase the EU's capacity to prevent and to respond to increasingly acute problems with forest fires and droughts.

The UK based Met office has announced significant developments in its science and technology capability to provide more precise prediction of where and when extreme rainfall will occur....

A school principal in Sangzao, China, convinced the county government to fund renovation and reinforcement work on his school in the 1990s. The school withstood the recent earthquake....

'The advance alert will enable state agencies and the public to prepare for any natural calamity and minimize damage to life and property,' said G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation...

The reinforced safer harbour will provide refuge for up to 400 boats in the event of a natural hazard...

The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports on the challenges ahead for the National Emergency Management Agency to implement the disaster prevention act implemented in 1998...

A new disaster museum could explain to the general public the causes and effects of natural calamities, through a better understanding of the human component of any catastrophic event....

A view from the reinsurance industry on the rising impact of natural hazard related disasters and how it is driving up the cost of disaster relief and reconstruction for the public sector....