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London - Natural disasters forced 32.4 million people from their homes in 2012, with climate and weather hazards such as floods and storms causing 98 percent of the displacement, a report said on Monday.
The total was almost double the 2011 number, as major floods hit India and Nigeria last year, accounting for 41 percent of global di…
Johanneesburg - When Typhoon Bopha, one of the strongest storms to hit the western Pacific in recent memory, slammed into the Philippine island of Mindanao last year, there was much speculation in the media about the growing influence of climate change.
But science is still uncertain about whether atmosphere-warming greenhouse gas emissions have caused…
The National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction has concluded its three-year US$3 million project to integrate Taiwan’s climate science information, and has commenced to work on a study that will examine the impacts of climate change on the country's agriculture and ecology. The project provided projection data and developed climate c…
By Hannah Stulberg, Product Manager, Google Maps
SOS alerts help you quickly access authoritative, real-time information during times of crisis. Today, we’re improving SOS alerts by adding visual information about natural disasters and a new navigation warning system on Google Maps so you can more reliably know where a disaster is and anticipate w…
When a National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society receives a forecast of an imminent extreme weather event, one of their most urgent tasks is to decide what action to take in anticipation of a possible disaster.
In the case of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, this decision-making process has become clearer and more straightforward, thanks to its im…
By Angelica Salele-Sefo
Suva, Fiji — In 2015, Tropical Cyclone Pam located near Vanuatu, over 1,000 kms away from Tuvalu, yet it caught Tuvalu unaware as it wreaked havoc in all of its nine islands. This has led to the development of forecasting model software to help ensure this never happens again.
Wave-drive inundation is very complex.…
Odisha'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…
PWS-18; WMO/TD No. 1422:
This document discusses the importance of communicating meteorological forecast uncertainty as a source of improved decision making, user expectation management and user confidence. It also presents different sources of uncertainty, such as atmospheric unpredictability and uncertainty of data and forecast interpretation. In add…
This document, a product of unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities, provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to disease outbreaks and emergencies caused by weather-, climate- and water-related hazards, most…
New Delhi - Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh Monday called for cutting down the delays in early warning for disasters to ensure prompt action at the grassroots to prepare, prevent and mitigate the sufferings of people.
Inaugurating the annual conference of relief commissioners and secretaries of disaster management departments of the state governments a…
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Bureau of Meteorology is closely monitoring post-tropical cyclone Sandy for what it tells about climate risks in Australia. “This is the sort of thing we're warning about increasing over time,” said Karl Braganza, manager of climate monitoring at the Bureau of Meteorology's National Climate Centre in Melbourne…
A new statistical tool to help target resources following deadly disasters has been created by the University of Bristol, allowing governments to prioritise getting aid to the most vulnerable people.
The poorest and minority communities are likely to be hardest hit by disasters due to living in areas prone to flooding or buildings more at risk of col…
Guyana - The newly accredited Ambassador of Finland to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) H.E. Mikko Pyhälä has pledged his country’s support in building the Region’s resilience to natural disasters through the development of technologies that could provide 'real time data' of impending hurricanes and floods.
In his remarks at the Ceremony for the Prese…
This week, Vanuatu Prime Minister Hon, Charlot Tabimasmas officially opened two Provincial Emergency Operations Centres (PEOC’s) in Malampa and in Sanma. The PEOC’s were funded by the EU through the Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific (BSRP) Project, with a total cost of €700,000. Each centre is built to facilitate three or more National Disas…
By Alexis R. Santos-Lozado
“If you don’t get away from those areas, you are going to die.” That statement concluded Puerto Rico Secretary of Public Safety Héctor Pesquera’s press conference before Hurricane Maria.
As of Dec. 29, the Department of Public Safety had certified 64 deathsdue to Hurricane Maria. Pesquera was one of the fierce…