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The Guna people of Panama's sinking Gardi Sugdub island are planning to move to the mainland to escape rising sea levels
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Repairs to an active landslide on U.S. Route 101 in 2021
Insurer-led organisation seeks to drive greater mobilisation of insurance sector capital and more impactful insurance sector investments into resilient infrastructure in emerging and developing economies.
Insurance Development Forum
A trio of seismologists reports that a part of the San Andreas Fault, at Parkfield, is not producing signals that would suggest an earthquake is going to happen any time soon, but they assert there are factors that suggest otherwise.
PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
Heavy rainfall in Pakistan’s Gwadar city triggered flooding in poor neighbourhoods, highlighting climate vulnerability and unfulfilled promises of development
The Third Pole
Students around the world can explore a new virtual world to learn heat wave survival skills and cooling solutions through the Minecraft Education platform.
Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
A small Asian girl hides behind the brick wall from the sun.
Rising temperatures pose a threat to the health of over 243 million children across East Asia and the Pacific.
United Nation Children's Fund - East Asia and Pacific Regional Office
The national rollout of the Early Warnings for All (EW4ALL) initiative in Lao PDR has been commenced with a multi-stakeholder consultation workshop held on September 21, 2023, in Vientiane.
United Nations - Headquarters
ASRA celebrates its one-year anniversary and announces its official launch with eminent new appointments to its Steering Committee and the release of a practical, principles-based guide to navigating risk in a polycrisis world.
Accelerating systemic risk assessment (ASRA)
Heat action planning systematically and scientifically organizes short-, medium-, and long-term heat interventions within a spectrum of context-specific, socially, and fiscally responsive options.
Federation of American Scientists
This research approach is intended to build trustworthy relationships and yield mutual benefits. Community-engaged projects have garnered attention over the past two decades as they focus on tackling inequities, which arise during public health crises.
Conversation Media Group, the

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