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Attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo against health facilities and medical personnel are hindering the country's response capabilities to the ongoing Ebola outbreak.
Kenyan pastoralists, whose livelihoods depend on reliable rainfall, are receiving help from technology with weather prediction and livestock protection.
With an eye on the Tokyo Games, Japanese researchers have developed a high-tech radar capable of producing a three-dimensional map of a rain cloud in 30 to 60 seconds. The system will help accurately forecast torrential downpours 30 minutes before they strike. The team is also using radio waves to estimate the amount of water vapour in the air to improve forecasts.
68 people are dead and more fatalities are expected after Storm Usman ravaged Philippines' Bicol region and the central island of Samar. Many people did not take necessary precautions because they were on Christmas holiday and Usman was not strong enough to be classified as a typhoon under the government's storm alert system.
Sirens wailed across Mexico City, warning the capital's 20 million population of a rapidly approaching earthquake from the Pacific. The relatively low number of casualties in the recent 8.2 magnitude quake, compared to past experience, demonstrates the effectiveness of the country's seismic early warning system.
Six years after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the authorities recently organized a drill in Cap-Haitien for schools, in order to improve the capacity to respond to earthquakes and tsunamis. The drill involved a total of 4,500 people and educating the population at large will be a huge challenge.
Nine months after a massive earthquake hit Nepal, thousands of survivors are now fighting sub-zero temperatures in flimsy temporary shelters, awaiting government help to rebuild their homes, reports Agence France Presse. The threat of landslides had forced families in the remote village of Laprak, close to the quake's epicentre in western Nepal, to relocate to a site a thousand metres higher...
Whether the December 12 Paris Agreement is the key to our salvation or too-little-too-late depends on what happens starting now, experts and activists told AFP. 'The most compelling thing you can say about Paris is not that it saved the planet, but that it saved the chance of saving the planet,' said Bill McKibben, founder of the grassroots organisation 350.org and an architect of the worldwide movement to divest from fossil fuel companies...
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