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Displaying 135 of about 789 resultsEl diario digital de Honduras, Progreso Digital, publica una nota relatando la actividades que se realizaron en la primera “Feria de la Niñez y Juventud para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres”, que se inauguró el 11 de setiembre del 2013 en la sede de la Universidad Pedagógica Francisco Morazán (UPNFM) de Tegucigalpa, evento organizado por Plan Inter…
In partnership with: California Geological Survey, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
While scientists can't predict when a great earthquake producing a pan-Pacific tsunami will occur, thanks to new tools being developed by federal and state officials, scientists can now offer more accurate insight into the likely impacts when tsunamis…
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…
'Access to water is likely to be one of the defining challenges of our time as climate change and population growth puts pressure on the precious resource,' according to Acclimatise.
As the U.S. continues to face increased water scarcity, there is mounting concern over the sustainability of our water resources,” said Upmanu Lall, Director of the Columb…
By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle
Oslo - Crop-damaging pests are moving towards the poles at a rate of more than 25 km (16 miles) a decade, aided by global warming and human transport, posing a potential threat to world food security, a study showed on Sunday.
The spread of beetles, moths, bacteria, worms, funghi and other pests in a warming…
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…
"Climate change is one of the greatest challenges that we are facing in today’s world; it is particularly important for us in the Caribbean and for a country like Trinidad and Tobago," says Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) Director and Trinidad-native Roger-Mark De Souza in an upcoming documentary by Sustain T&T, a non-profit based i…
This IPS story is part one of a three-part series on the challenges faced by people living with disabilities in a world where intense storms and other natural disasters are expected to become the "new normal".
Last year's Hurricane Sandy has left a great number of people living with disability in a difficult situation.
The United Nations Office for Di…
Ottawa - The Honourable Steven Blaney, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, made the following statement today acknowledging the United Nation's International Day for Disaster Reduction.
“The International Day for Disaster Reduction reminds us of the importance in taking action to reduce the risk to disasters. The recent flooding in So…
By Barbara Goldberg
New York - Even when Superstorm Sandy killed their neighbors and flooded their house, Frank and Mary Lettieri vowed to stay in the Staten Island, New York, home where they raised five children.
But with a popular home buyback program set to close on its first house on Thursday and nearly the entire neighborhood fleeing, the self-de…
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, has emphasised the need to increase climate change awareness among Jamaicans, noting that the issue is “everybody’s business. ”
Mr. Pickersgill said tackling the effects of climate change on Jamaica will require a communal approach, “as we will all be affected. ”
The Min…
“Cuba manages hurricanes well,” told Russel L. Honoré, disaster preparedness specialist to the New York Times and added: "We could be learning from them.”
Hurricanes rarely cause casualties in Cuba. In fact, a person is 15 times as likely to be killed by a hurricane in the United States as in Cuba.
“Cuba has an enormous amount of deteriorated bu…
The City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has released maps that indicate flash flood risks from the Waldo Canyon wildfire scar. The interactive maps are complete with addresses, flash flood risk areas and the potential impact of various precipitation amounts, reports Denver Post.
Lima - La Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros (PCM), a través de la Secretaria de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres, viene desarrollando talleres macrorregionales de difusión del Programa Presupuestal N° 068 ‘Reducción de Vulnerabilidad y atención de emergencias por desastres’, dirigido a las municipalidades distritales y provinciales del país.
El objet…
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…