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Tegucigalpa/Miami - As Caribbean weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable and natural disasters become more frequent, a new initiative in Honduras is being launched to help communities prepare and protect themselves.
Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado signed an agreement Wedne…
A 35 million U.S. dollar Asian Development Bank loan will finance Cambodia’s new disaster risk management project, reports Xinhua news agency on China.com. The six-year project aims to strengthen the country’s resilience to floods and droughts by increasing flood protection, enhancing critical infrastructure and flood forecasting systems and helping loc…
Johannesburg - In spite of the political and financial turmoil that Zimbabwe faces, the country seems to be on the right track in adopting strategies to address the effects of climate change. But these strategies tend to have a strong rural bias, overlooking the fact that almost half of the country now lives in urban areas, according to a joint review o…
To help protect communities from disasters and tackle the adverse effects of climate change, a new IUCN project will show how healthy ecosystems can help reduce the risks and make livelihoods more resilient.
Avalanches and landslides threaten human settlements and transport lines in mountainous regions of countries such as Nepal, Chile and China. Coast…
The recently signed $ 251 m Asian Development Bank loan to Vietnam will include support to improve the country's flood and drought management and reduce economic losses. ADB provided a loan of $45 million, and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) offered a grant of $5.9 million, reported VietNamNet.
"To improve flood and drought…
The droughts gets broader and deeper, covering more than three-fifths of the continental U.S. And scientific studies show that this sort of drought could only be the beginning, reports Bryan Walsh for Time.
Showing how this "flash drought" had broadened and deepened over just three weeks, he warns about the short-term drop in meat prices it will bring a…
Natural Disaster Risk Management Project: Limiting Damage from Natural Disasters
Located in the tropical monsoon area in South East Asia, Vietnam is one of the most hazard-prone areas in the Asia Pacific Region. The rural poor are particularly vulnerable and often find themselves even deeper in the poverty cycle after a disaster. To help break that cyc…
BALACLAVA, Mauritius, 23 November 2016 - Host country Mauritius is using this week’s Africa Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction to profile the challenges facing small island developing states (SIDS) battling a rise in climate-related disasters which constitute an existential threat to many of them.
This is the first time that one of Africa’s…
PANAMA CITY, Panama, June 28 2016— In the midst of one of the worst droughts to affect Central America in decades, the expanded Panama Canal is a model for how to adapt to climate change and reduce disaster risk.
The 77-kilometre canal, which is a major conduit for international commerce, has been operating since 1914. It has just undergone a major upg…
GENEVA, 3 March 2016 – Australia could see its annual disaster bill rise nearly fourfold by 2050, with the cost of social impacts such as stress-related illness playing a significant role, two reports commissioned by the Australian Business Roundtable for Disaster Resilience and Safer Communities warn.
Issued just two weeks before the first anniversary…
Water levels at Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe have dropped dramatically because of the latest El Niño drought. The country’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has declared a national disaster. Historian and social scientist Joshua Matanzima grew up at Lake Kariba and has spent the past 10 years researching socioeconomic life there. He discusses the impact of the…
The Arab region joins the rest of the world in facing an increase in natural hazards. The region is characterized by its harsh environment and has limited resilience to natural hazards events, which results in an increase in the number of natural disasters in the region. These disasters result from a group of factors including the increase in population…
The climate crisis is increasingly impacting global supply chains and trade routes.In recent weeks, cargo ships have been forced to wait days and weeks to cross the Panama Canal because of a drought.Authorities say the crisis is posing “unprecedented challenges” and has “no historical precedence.”A severe drought in Panama is creating long queues and de…
Water resources play an important role in the overall progress of a country. The proper utilization and management of available water resources according to the requirement has always been a crucial issue in developed as well as developing countries like Pakistan. The drastically increasing water demand and rapid changes in climate in whole world are po…
Events to mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction highlight how at-risk communities are reducing their exposure to disasters. Themes for this day are based on the Sendai Seven Campaign – 7 Targets, 7 Years. Following the tradition of recent years, the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC is again hosting the Australian event. In 2019 the theme foc…