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Displaying 3000 of about 19305 resultsOdisha's Special Relief Commissioner's team mobilised 50,000 volunteers, police officers, boats, buses and trains to evacuate more than a million people to shelters
By Annie Banerji
From mass texting to mobilising 50,000 volunteers, the Indian official who masterminded the evacuation of more than a million people revealed on Thursday how they were mov…
By Sanjeeb Panigrahi
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Every disaster drains physical, cultural and emotional energy resulting from damaging socio-economic losses. However, political capital gets banked through futile rhetoric. For example, after every natural calamity there is a clamour to declare the said calamity as a “national calamity”. Fani has also given rise to such voic…
By Hem H. Dholakia
As the already hot Indian summer gets hotter due to climate change, there is need for urgent action to combat debilitating heat stress and to build climate-resilient infrastructure
Indian summers were always hot. Now, they have turned lethal. Globally, we have seen a spate of record temperatures, with 2015, 2016 and 2017 being the t…
By KumKum Dasgupta
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While the Patnaik government did well to weather Cyclone Fani — the state mobilised resources and personnel to evacuate more than a million people — and save lives, the challenges ahead of the state now will be equally gargantuan. “While restoring infrastructure will be one aspect of the challenge, rebuilding lives of poor peo…
By Jatindra Dash and Serajul Quadir
A cyclone barrelled into eastern India on Friday, damaging houses in the tourist town of Puri and wounding 160 people after a million people were moved into storm shelters.
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Indian government spokesman Sitanshu Kar said there were no reports of deaths but 160 people were believed injured.
Bangladesh's junior…
By Md Rashed Chowdhury, Principal Research Scientist of the Pacific ENSO Applications Climate Center (PEAC), University of Hawaii
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“Climate change stands as a stress test for insurance, the world’s largest industry with $4.6 trillion in revenues, 7% of the global economy,” writes Evan Mills, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator…
A seismic vulnerability assessment study of nearly 67% fire and emergency service building in the state, 60% police buildings and 18% local administration infrastructure, has revealed that 14,12% of these buildings are likely to collapse and over 67% may be damaged and put to disuse immediately after an earthquake.
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The study conducted by Disaster…
By Justyna Al-Samawi, International Medical Corps Jordan
In 1927, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Jordan buried 200 people and caused massive damage. Although subsequent earthquakes have tended to be relatively moderate, Jordan’s Dead Sea Rift Valley remains particularly vulnerable to natural hazards and experiences frequent seismic activity. Given the r…
Following the recent Beijing floods the city's infrastructure and its disaster prevention capabilities are under scrutiny. Due to dense population, cities are increasingly prone to natural disasters. Liu Tao, a lecturer of Sociology in Bielefeld University, Germany urges authorities to conduct risk evaluations of urban areas and to establish research mo…
Following the devastating floods in China, Zheng Guoguang, director of the China Meteorological Administration, urged his department to provide accurate weather forecasts to mitigate weather related damages. China Daily reports that he added: “Meteorological monitoring in areas especially prone to flood and other weather disasters need to be strengthene…
Developing countries will need 60 billion dollars a year by 2030 to finance their climate change adaptation, according to to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as reported by IPS. The World Bank gives a broader range at 20 to 100 billion dollars.
Thus, funding is a highly important matter for developing countries, and particularly for…
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Islamabad - Pakistan is working on to provide disaster risk insurance for its 180 million population which is the biggest ever insurance venture anywhere in the world, said Dr Zafar Qadir, Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) here on Wednesday. This would cover the loss of crops, shelter, livestock as well human lives…
Bangkok - Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Theera Wongsamut has indicated that the repair work on flood prevention facilities on the west side of the Chao Phraya River has been completed by 90%.
Mr. Theera today led his entourage and press members to the west bank of the Chao Phraya River to inspect the repair of 14 irrigation buildings as part…
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Washington-- A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard…
By Robert Kimball
Early last week, the strained electrical power infrastructure in northern and eastern India was pushed to its breaking point. Two days of power failures impacted a staggering 670 million people (or, put another way, more than the combined populations of the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Central America, and Brazil!) , leaving them in the dark…