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Displaying 15 of about 216 resultsBy Dizery Salim
GENEVA, 10 November 2011 – Eighteen countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have agreed to tighten up on school safety while also integrating disaster risk reduction into the school curriculum, following high-level talks on education in Panama City.
Between 1970 and 2009, over 32,000 schools in South America were damaged or destro…
The $1.1 million project is funded through the 2023 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act. Aerial surveys will map the geologic landscape with the goal of better understanding natural hazards and identifying surface materials that could be used to build and enhance hazard-resilient infrastructure. The research was conducted through a comb…
Climate change has already made extreme precipitation in California twice as likely, part of a trend projected to continue through 2100.
Extreme storm sequences are projected to generate 200% to 400% more runoff by the end of the century.
Today’s study is the first part of ArkStorm 2.0, a scenario to prepare for catastrophic flooding in the western…
Landslides are inevitable, but landslide disasters are not. With this in mind, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new report that details the strategic actions necessary to equitably reduce the Nation’s risk from landslide hazards.
The USGS “National Strategy for Landslide Loss Reduction” fulfills a core requirement of the National Landslide Pre…
Francisco Gaitán, alcalde de Cantarrana de Honduras sugirió hoy en Noticias AM que los países deben alertar a las comunidades sobre los desastres naturales.
Además, mencionó que es importante hacer un mapeo del lugar, advertir a la población y declarar la zona como no habitable.
Sobre este tema, Ricardo Mena de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas d…
By Lisbeth Fog
Bogota - A group of scientists has urged the Colombian government to act faster to protect the country from extreme weather and longer-term climate shifts, saying it is failing to implement climate change policies that already exist.
Last month, the National Environmental Forum (NEF) and researchers working with it called on Bogota to a…
A total of $159 million has been allocated to the Community Based Landslide Risk Management Project in the 2013/2014 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives.
The project seeks to reduce the risk of natural disasters in vulnerable communities in Jamaica and provide an evidence based toolkit for vulnerability reduction throughou…
Por Vicente Sandoval
Chile es un país que históricamente ha sufrido de amenazas naturales, como son las erupciones volcánicas, terremotos, deslizamientos de tierra, inundaciones y sequías, entre muchas otras, las cuales de alguna u otra forma han desencadenado los llamados desastres “naturales”.
La reciente erupción del volcán Chaitén en el 2008, q…
By Emily Underwood
In 2015, a massive landslide plunged more than 50 million cubic meters of debris into Alaska’s remote Taan Fiord, a finger of Icy Bay in front of the tidewater Tyndall Glacier. The rockfall sent water almost 200 meters up the other side of the inlet—more than triple the height of Japan’s devastating 2011 tsunami. No one was…
By Sander Carpay, Sonja Bleeker, Pamela Quino Ramos, Constantino Aucca Chutas and Lukas Edbauer
What is blue-green infrastructure?
Blue-Green Infrastructure differs from the “grey” infrastructure or traditional engineering due to its natural elements, the network of measures that connect them, and the multiple ecosystem services that they pr…
El Instituto Geofísico del Perú (IGP) informó que construyó un radar de apertura sintética (SAR, por sus siglas en inglés) que permite monitorear los deslizamientos de la tierra a fin de prevenir y mitigar desastres que se presentan durante la temporada de lluvias o por sismos.
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Este proyecto, que inició en el año 2014, ha consistido en la const…
El diario El Impulso realiza una nota sobre acciones ejecutadas en el poblado de Cubiro, en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, para contribuir a mitigar los efectos ocasionados por la inestabilidad de los suelos derivada de condicionantes geológicas acentuadas en los últimos años, por el crecimiento poblacional y falta de cumplimiento de las ordenan…
By Leonardo Sáenz
Last year, Leo Sáenz blogged about Gramalote, a town in northeastern Colombia that was buried under a massive mudslide in 2010, triggered by the wettest La Niña event in over a century. Part of a team tasked with determining a new location to rebuild the town, he reports on the progress on the Human Nature Blog.
If you’ve paid any at…
Minor earthquakes have recently rocked Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano and it has been giving off gas, ash, and glowing hot rocks. Experts are worried about mudflows (debris flows / lahars), that may occur when volcanic ash is mixed with water near the top of the volcano.
"Thinking about them as mud is technically accurate, but conceptually it's more lik…
By Wagdy Sawahel, SciDev.Net
Satellite data could not only identify hotspots for landslides, but could also play a part in predicting these potentially devastating events, particularly in remote mountainous regions, a study suggests.
Researchers at the University of California, United States, have developed a model using satellite data on rainfall, to…