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Displaying 15 of about 253 resultsBEIRUT/GENEVA, 21 October 2011 – UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlstrom, today welcomed the news that both the Lebanese Army and the National Institute of Administration, the country’s civil service, are to make disaster risk reduction a core element of staff training.
She said: “This is a welcome signal from the new government of the importance it attaches…
Chile, known for its diverse landscapes and cultural diversity, hides a less-explored narrative that intertwines disasters, post-colonial legacies, and capitalist influences. In this blog post, I aim to take a closer look at these connections –without claiming to offer a groundbreaking analysis. Instead, the goal is to shed light on the complex interpla…
Scientists are predicting longer-burning wildfires in future decades. As Greece and Italy hit new records, does Europe need a new fire prevention strategy?Wildfires across the European Union have laid waste to approximately 260,000 hectares of land so far this year, damaging infrastructure, prompting evacuations, and displacing thousands of people.[...]…
[...]As parts of Nepal recover from their toughest wildfire season to-date - fuelled by rising heat and drought linked to climate change - firefighters and officials fear that the tools and tactics they use to combat forest fires may no longer suffice.[...]The office has built about 50 ponds across the area, but most had no water this season due to less…
Study finds lower-income homeowners are at higher risk of wildfire, canceled homeowners insurance.
With fires raging from California to Alaska, the 2022 wildfire season is off to a violent start. It’s an ominous sign of what promises to be another record-breaking fire season in the U.S.
Roughly 2 million acres burned last month. And major fires are cu…
Gov. Jared Polis signed a suite of wildfire prevention and recovery-related bills Friday, clearing the way for the state to stand up a new emergency insurance plan, standardize fire-resistant building codes and buy a $26 million firefighting helicopter.The 11 bills were all passed during the 2023 legislative session, which ended Monday. They represent t…
California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and the USDA Forest Service, along with support from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, has developed Planscape – a new wildfire resilience planning tool that uses state and federal resilience data to create user-friendly models that will be easily accessible to land planners. A d…
In the fall of 1922, the city of Toronto sent 85 surplus streetcars to Haileybury and other northern Ontario towns to help house thousands of desperate people who had lost their homes to wildfires.
Known as the Great Fire, it burned nearly 1,700 square kilometres of the area — including the town of Haileybury. It killed 43 people and caused m…
By Megan Rowling
London - Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday.
The total was almost double the 2011 number, as major floods hit India and Nigeria last year, accounting for 41 percent of global di…
With less than a year before its scheduled completion, activities are on track for the 30-month Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Project which got underway in October 2010, reports the Jamaica Observer. Public awareness and community-based disaster risk management have been a particular focus.
According to the report, the $515-mill…
El consejero de Cooperación Municipal, Vivienda y Seguridad del Cabildo, José Antonio Valbuena, ha anunciado hoy miércoles [día 25], en rueda de prensa, la celebración del X Seminario del proyecto europeo Heritprot los días 2,3 y 4 de julio en el convento de Santo Domingo, bajo la dirección del Consorcio de Bomberos de Tenerife. En virtud del mismo se d…
By Rachelle Chong
Wildfires are growing in intensity and frequency, escalating the threat posed to Americans — and the critical utility infrastructure we rely on. According to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, weather and climate disasters cost the U.S. $91 billion in 2018.
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Existing advanced technologies ca…
MATHER – Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the findings of his strike force charged with examining California’s catastrophic wildfires, climate change and our energy future.
The strike force report sets out steps the state must take to reduce the incidence and severity of wildfires, including the significant wildfire mitigation and resiliency…
By Ismail Shakil
California utilities regulator has opened a case to evaluate and consider penalties against power and gas utility PG&E Corp for its involvement in the fierce wildfires that killed 46 people in Northern California’s wine country in 2017.
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The regulator said an investigation into the wildfires by Safety and Enforcement Divisio…
It’s been a devastating start to the bushfire season. Lisa Cox explains how the fire season is changing, and we hear from people living on the frontline of the fires.
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