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Displaying 75 of about 301 resultsChina has been making strides in recent years to reduce air pollution, including fitting filters in coal-fired power stations to remove sulfur dioxide from emissions, a molecule that reacts with other compounds in the atmosphere to form polluting particulates.[...]In the computed experiments, Liu and colleagues found that sea ice decline during winter l…
Rising temperatures since March and April this year have caused fire incidents across Odisha and reduced priceless forest wealth to ashes. But the forests around some villages in the Kandhamal district have surprisingly remained unaffected so far.The residents of the villages, which are about 300 kilometres from Bhubaneswar, have taken it upon themselve…
Research has an important role to play in managing extreme climate eventsHave you noticed people talking about the weather more than usual lately? In Indonesia and across much of Southeast Asia, many people seem to be enjoying unusually warm temperatures for the time of year, as the climate pattern across the Pacific shifts from La Niña to El Niño.Chara…
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Kit includes booklet and poster
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Kit includes booklet and poster
How do you resume business after a disruptive event?
Business disruptions affects your organization’s daily performance, and more largely your operating costs and overall profit. Hence a good business continuity plan is highly valuable to a company as it keeps a company running in rough times. So, the question is, how to arrive at the right kind of con…
The 3rd IDRES China 2012 is a comprehensive exposition with the theme of disaster protection, reduction and emergency, hi-tech characteristic, whose purpose is to provide an open platform for disaster reduction and emergency industry. Recently, China allots ten billions yuan to buy disaster reduction equipment and products every year, which means govern…
The second Asia-Pacific Forestry Week will be held 7-11 November 2011 in Beijing China, with the theme "New challenges - new opportunities".
It will be the largest and the most important forestry-related event in the region in 2011, bringing together more than 1500 participants from governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), research instituti…
In the recent decade wildfires have increasingly affected forest lands in the Hyrcanian region. The Golestan Province Governorate and the Faculty of Forest Sciences of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources are organizing the First International Conference of Wildfire on Natural Resources Lands as a joint international conferen…
This action plan is intended to help make Myanmar disaster resilient and has been prepared through a consultative and partnership approach. It has identified projects which need to be implemented to meet the Hyogo Framework for Action 2015 and HFA and the Asian Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) commitments.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2021 Report warns that extreme weather events are likely to become more frequent as a result of climate change. Although wildfires are a natural phenomenon, this year’s record-breaking heatwaves and drought have increased their frequency, strength, and impact. In 2021, parts of Europe and North America have…