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Further to the devastating storms that ravaged parts of the United States over the past week, The New York Times highlights some maps by Sperling’s Best Places, a publisher of city rankings, an attempt to assess a combination of risks in 379 American metro areas. Learn more about resilient cities at the Global Platform...
The New York Times's Andrew K. Revkin looks at the disparity in economic and human losses from the recent earthquake in Japan and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. He includes observations from several scholars and practitioners working in seismic risk, disaster planning and related issues...
Tina Rosenberg explores the concept of crowdsourcing and explains that the relatively recent social phenomenon has been used in various emergencies to allow ordinary citizens to organize themselves citing the example of Ushahidi, used in Haiti...
A new online tool launched yesterday by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change intends to track progress towards goals, including adaptation to climate change, agreed upon last December by the 190 nations represented at the international climate talks in Cancún, Mexico, reports John M. Broder in the 'Green' blog of the New York Times...
'Why isn’t Congress mulling whether the federal government should play a role in making American schools sturdier, as well as greener?' says Andrew Revkin in his New York Times blog Dot Earth. 'In Oregon alone, more than 1,000 schools have already been identified as rubble in waiting, very likely to collapse in a great earthquake that could come today or several generations from now but is inevitable.'...
The potent earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan constitute a warning for the Pacific Northwest says Yumei Wang in the Dot Earth blog by Andrew Revkin for the New York Times...
'Hurricanes could become more prevalent with climate change, but the economic pain they deliver might not be recognized as man-made for 260 years' reports Evan Lehmann of ClimateWire in the New York Times...
The New York Times takes a look at recent calculations that have led many scientists to now say that sea level is likely to rise by almost one metre by 2100, posing a serious threat to coastal regions world-wide...
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