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This last part of the Washed Away coverage focuses on how communities need to be proactive and how Goshen,Indiana is trying to lead the way.
Hurricanes pose challenges in quickly establishing a death count because of the vast regions that the storms affect. It is also common for death tolls in disasters to escalate weeks and months later because of deaths indirectly caused by a storm.
The Portuguese government is using goats to guard its rugged areas against a repeat of last year's catastrophic wildfires. This includes includes trying to clean up as much woodland as possible before temperatures rise and the land becomes a tinderbox.
The Dutch government is taking part in the creation of a Global Center of Excellence on Climate Adaptation that will be launched next week. The Netherlands is a global leader in climate change adaptation and flood resilience, and their expertise and technology is becoming increasingly valuable commodities with a doubled export since 2000.
'North Carolina should not ignore science when making public policy decisions. House Bill 819 will become law because it allows local governments to use their own scientific studies to define rates of sea level change,' Gov. Bev Perdue stated...
This is 'an opportunity to agree on a global road map for more coordinated, better financed, higher-quality reconstruction after disasters' said Zoubida Allaoua, Director of the World Bank’s Finance, Economics and Urban Development Department, speaking at the pre-conference launch in a report by Dinesh Singh Rawat for ABC...
Seismic experts say that the earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital in January may have been caused by an unseen fault, pressure could be building for another quake, and that a threat remains, according to two papers published in the journal 'Nature Geoscience', reports ABCnews...
'People assume that if they have an early warning system, their problems are solved,' says James Goff, director of the Australian Tsunami Research Centre. 'But it's only one of a suite of ways of being aware what's going on'...
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