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Investing in sustainable land management could help boost political, economic and climatic resilience in poor countries, writes Monique Barbut, executive secretary of the UN convention to combat desertification in The Guardian...

'We cannot establish a direct relation of cause and effect between quakes and volcanic eruptions, even if statistically the former lead to an increase in the latter. All we can say is that Mount Fuji is now in a state of pressure, which means it displays a high potential for eruption. The risk is clearly higher,'said Florent Brenguier, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences...

The government admitted to learning important lessons from Haiyan (Yolanda), during which many victims died because they were not fully informed on the strength of the incoming typhoon and the consequences of a storm surge; and a large component of preparation this year has been angled towards education...

If there is another storm that is even close to Haiyan there could be higher death tolls, there could be much worse impact because the resilience that existed previously is all down.

'We have been talking about the resilience of infrastructure, and that's very important – but if there aren't any people, it doesn't matter if the infrastructure is resilient or not. This is the foundation of resilience,' said Margareta Wahlström, chief of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction...

'There will come a day when we can pull up maps on our iPhones that show known landslide hazards as prominently as directions to the nearest barber shop. Let’s make that day come sooner. We’ve become consumers of information; users of 'big data'. Let’s become consumers of science,' urges Dr Daniel J Miller...

The latest IPCC report detailing climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability predicts future food and water supply insecurities and calls for both mitigation and adaptation, reports the Guardian...

Swiss Re, a reinsurance company assessed 616 cities of the world for their risk of earthquake, hurricanes and cyclones, storm surge, river flooding and tsunami and The Guardian features the 10 riskiest cities...