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Displaying 300 of about 301 results“There is a need for preparedness and reduction measures to cope with disasters and minimise risks,” said Jagannath Kurmi, chairperson of the National Network of Disaster Affected Communities, as reported by Ekantipur.com.
We still lack the resources to invest in early warning systems, embankments along rivers and landslide-prone areas and also the tec…
“With regard to climate change, the Southern Caucasus region already shows climate induced changes with increasing temperatures, sea level rise, reduction and redistribution of river flows, decreasing snowfall and an upward shift of the snowline. More extreme weather events have also characterized the last ten years with flooding, landslides, forest fir…
It is estimated more than 150,000 people die from fires or burn-related injuries every year. Over 95% of fire deaths and burn injuries are in low- and middle-income countries. Meanwhile, urban growth is said to be one of the 21st century’s most transformative trends, posing massive sustainability challenges in terms of housing, infrastructure and basic…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…
By Bernadette Christina Munthe and Kanupriya Kapoor
As forest fires raged like never before across Indonesia last year, President Joko Widodo announced he was setting up a special agency to tackle the annual scourge that shrouds parts of Southeast Asia in choking haze.
But, with this season's fires already blazing, the Peatlands Restoration Agency has…
GENEVA, 10 October 2018 – The last twenty years have seen a dramatic rise of 151% in direct economic losses from climate-related disasters, according to a report released today by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction in advance of International Day for Disaster Reduction on October 13.
In the period 1998-2017, disaster-hit countries reported direc…
Radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster locked away in the upper layers of soil are at risk of being spread through "catastrophic wildfires" caused by climate change as far as Turkey, Italy and Scandinavia, scientists warned.
"In places like Chernobyl and now in Fukushima, we need to prepare for the possibility of these catastrophic fires. And we ne…
Suva – Producing and using disaggregated disaster and climate data is vital to build a resilient Blue Pacific that includes some of the region’s most vulnerable populations.
This was the headline call from female leaders representing different sectors to policymakers and practitioners across the region.
The ‘Counting women: using disaggregated…
Forest fires in Nepal have turned central Nepal’s sky into a hazy din as a yellow tone is constant as if it were an Instagram filter. In the past month alone, there have been over 500 forest fires in nearly 60 districts across the country. From the lower plains of Mahottari to the high hills of Manang, forests in Nepal have been burning constantly…
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It was near 11 p.m. on a cold winter night, and Lu Huizhong was at work patrolling narrow, winding alleys between traditional Chinese houses with a gong on one hand and a mallet in the other.
Lu, 63, sporadically hit the metal dish during his walk, reminding residents to take care of potential fire hazards before they go to sleep.
This is an a…
By Kanchan Srivastava
Over 30,000 forest fires were reported in India in 2019.
Around 95 percent of the forest fires in India are on account of human activity.
With wildfires in Australia and California gaining global attention in the past few years, forest fire management is in focus.
Experts recommend that fire management should fo…
Supreme Court verdict raises pressure on government to meet its obligation to protect citizens from health impacts of forest fires
By Michael Taylor
KUALA LUMPUR - Green groups have urged the Indonesian government to step up help for hundreds of thousands of people made sick by forest fires and the haze they cause each year, after the nation's top cou…
About 2.6 million hectares of land in Indonesia was burned between June and October 2015, mainly on Indonesia's Sumatra and Borneo islands
By Michael Taylor
KUALA LUMPUR — A Singaporean charity is working with villagers in Indonesia to restore ancient peatlands, seeking to curb the haze that chokes the region every year, organisers said on Thursd…
By Dechen Tshering, Barbara Minguez Garcia, and James P. Newman
Culture defines the sovereignty and identity of Bhutan and its people.
And the intricate beauty and uniqueness of its traditional architecture are known around the world.
As such, cultural heritage preservation is one of the four pillars of Gross National Happiness, the guiding phil…
By Manuela Andreoni
Data suggests an Amazon fire season worse than 2019’s that shocked the world. So what are international investors doing about it?
This year’s Amazon fire season is already breaking records. In July, there were 27% more fires in Brazil’s portion of the world’s largest rainforest than last year, when images of trees ab…