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A database launched yesterday by Central American officials is intended to predict natural hazards and reduce the potential impact of climate change, reports AFP. 'The challenge of climate change is how we prepare the region to better address this problem to reduce the risks,' said El Salvador's Environmental Minister Herman Rosa Chavez...
A new report is calling on Greek authorities to 'develop an effective system to protect the country's forests' after revealing thatt over a period of 25 years, forest fires have destroyed more than 10 percent of the landscape, mainly on the Southern Peloponnese peninsula, reports AFP...
After two eruptions, geologists have warned that the country's volcanoes appeared to have entered a more active phase and that more eruptions could be expected, with Hekla believed to be first in line reports AFP. 'Hekla never gives you much of a warning, in 1970 we only got 25 minutes notice' said geophysicist Pall Einarsson...
The Nebraskan public has been assured that its two nuclear plant facilities are safe, even though floodwaters from the Missouri River have surrounded one plant and are gradually moving towards the other, reports AFP. 'There is little to no chance of anything like Fukushima happening here,' an official said...
"The strength (stability) of engineering structures of most nuclear power plants does not meet current regulatory document requirements for stresses that occur from extreme natural impacts," says a newly issued report released to senior government officials, according to AFP...
'The risk of losing wealth in disasters is actually increasing faster than that wealth is being created,' said Andrew Maskrey, coordinator of the 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction launched today at the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Reduction 2011...
How much a country is prepared to pay for risk reduction, 'is an important [question] which I think will be... looked at now in a different perspective than before the Japanese earthquake' said Margareta Wahlström, the UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, ahead of the Global Platform next week...
Le secrétaire général des Nations Unies, Ban Ki-Moon, ouvrira la conférence internationale sur la réduction des risques de catastrophes qui se tiendra du 10 au 13 mai à Genève en présence de quelques 2000 responsables politiques et des affaires venus de 170 pays, a annoncé jeudi l'ONU, selon Romandie.com...
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