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Some 18,000 people have been evacuated in New South Wales as torrential rain hammers the state. Almost three-quarters of NSW is subject to a severe weather alert.
Right now, thousands of people are sheltering in schools, bowling clubs, community centres and other makeshift evacuatio…
Scientists are working to understand how long it might take for people to move out of harm's way ahead of a future eruption of the Auckland Volcanic Field.
"The next eruption in the Auckland Volcanic Field could happen anywhere in the existing field, either on the land, or in the sea, so estimating how many people might be impacted carries a lot of unc…
By Jayanta Basu
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According to state government sources, nearly 1.5 million people were evacuated before and during the disaster into 14,000 flood shelters, both formal and temporary ones.
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“We planned carefully after Amphan. We enhanced our capacity, procured machinery and above all, the coordination has been very good under the leadership…
By Andrew Schroeder
Hurricane Delta is set to make landfall as a Category 2 storm on the coast of Louisiana and western Mississippi on Friday, Oct. 9. This would be a serious situation under any circumstance, but for those still displaced from the last major storm in this area, Hurricane Laura, which made landfall on Aug. 26, the impact is likely to be…
The total number of people living in internal displacement reached a record 55 million by the end of 2020. During a year marked by intense storms and persistent conflict, 40.5 million new displacements were triggered across the world by disasters and violence, the highest annual figure recorded in a decade.
“It is particularly concerning that these hig…
In West and Central Africa, the spread of COVID-19 has been accompanied by a contagion of misinformation, creating fear and uncertainty among certain communities. In a region [West Africa] where an estimated 252 million people are unconnected to the internet, risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) is essential to e…
By Catherine Iorns
The government’s recently announced overhaul of major environmental legislation will result in a new law focused solely on climate change adaptation.
The 30-year-old Resource Management Act (RMA) was groundbreaking when it was passed in 1991 — the first in the world to be based on the concept of sustainable management. But it has be…
Por Alexis Rodriguez-Rata
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Millones de personas cada año se ven obligadas a migrar de su lugar de residencia habitual. De forma involuntaria. Y sin planificar. Aunque a menudo no salen de la frontera de su país. Son desplazados internos. Y hoy ven cifras récord.
El informe del 2021 de esta institución con sede en Ginebra (Suiza) recoge las cifra…
By Soumya Sarkar
The trail of destruction left by Cyclone Amphan in eastern India has once again highlighted inadequacies in dealing with climate disasters that displace millions of people every year.
Despite improvements in early warning systems and disaster response infrastructure, India and other countries in South Asia are still grossly un…
How can you observe physical distancing when you must fit three people under a mosquito net made for one person to protect yourself from malaria?
In Juba, the capital of South Sudan, nearly 30,000 people live side-by-side in a sprawling camp known as a “protection of civilian” (PoC) site. They fled their homes to escape war and the camp is their…
Rivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric river storms drenching the state in early January 2023.
The evacuations at one point included all of Montecito, home to around 8,000 people – and t…
In 2017, communities in Southern Albania were severely affected by floods due to late flood warnings and a limited evacuation process. Since 2019, the Albanian Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have worked with these communities as part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance to strengthen flood resilienc…
Millions of displaced people have moved to Dhaka and Chittagong in search of safer ground, but these metropolises are subsiding under the pressures of rapid urbanisation
very morning, Abdul Aziz wakes up before dawn in the shack he shares with his wife and two daughters. Pedalling rickshaws through the streets of Dhaka is the only way the 50-…
To help those forced to move by disasters caused by natural hazards, innovative financing and greater cooperation between development and humanitarian sectors are needed.Disaster displacement – when people are forced to move from their homes due to floods, droughts, earthquakes or other catastrophic events – reached 225.3 million in Asia and the Pacific…
Climate change is resulting in extreme weather events that force communities to leave their homes.
The UN International Organization for Migration forecasts that up to a billion people will become climate migrants over the next 30 years.
AI can be used to help governments and individuals prepare for climate migration.
Climate change is one of the…