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Displaying 135 of about 1001 resultsLa prolifération des sargasses apparait comme une nouvelle menace en lien avec les changements climatiques. Localiser et quantifier l’impact des sargasses avec une app smartphone et une cartographie sur le web contribue à gérer et atténuer les impacts et permet à chacun de contribuer aux Objectifs de Développement Durable. SIGNALERT met à disposition so…
By Molly Callahan
Firefighters, legislators, and residents on the East Coast should watch carefully the way their California counterparts are dealing with wildfires tearing through the state. The combined forces that brought about the blaze are growing more and more present in the Northeast, said Stephen Flynn, founding director of Northeaste…
By Matt Bussmann
Like many communities in California with a mild climate, affordable housing, and scenic wilderness, Butte County (pop. ~230,000) has grown significantly over the past four decades. Broadly, this growth is happening all around the county — both in cities (e.g. Chico, the county seat and largest city, pop. ~94,000) as well as in mor…
A new study has revealed for the first time the last 500-year flood history of the Mississippi River. It shows a dramatic rise in the size and frequency of extreme floods in the past century -- mostly due to projects to straighten, channelize, and bound the river with artificial levees.
The new research, led by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic I…
By Marcie Grabowski
A new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study published in Nature Climate Change provides one of the most comprehensive assessments yet of how humanity is being impacted by the simultaneous occurrence of multiple climate hazards strengthened by increasing greenhouse gas emissions. This research, co-au…
By Andrew Hay
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What’s driving the wildfires is exceptional drought conditions in large areas of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Severe droughts used to happen every four to five decades but are becoming frequent. In New Mexico, such dry periods have occurred in five years since 2000, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Ker…
Selected intervals in the past that were as warm or warmer than today can help us understand what the Earth may be like under future global warming. A latest assessment of past warm periods, published in Nature Geoscience by an international team of 59 scientists from 17 nations, shows that in response to the warming ecosystems and climate zones will sp…
By Shane Fowler
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And according to some scientists and conservationists, the Red Dragon, along with countless other tree-shorn areas in the province, contributed to the record flooding along the St. John River this spring.
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"You take the trees away and the first thing that happens is you no longer have the canopy of the trees that…
This report outlines the activities of the African cluster on environment, population and urbanization issues over the past year. It reports on the progress made under the Programme of Action for implementation of the Africa Regional Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), which intends to reduce disaster risk in Africa and link with climate change…
Accelerating improvements in the accuracy of one-day to two-week high-impact weather forecasts for the benefit of society, the economy and the environment:
This brochure presents THORPEX as a key research meteorological component of the WMO Natural Disaster Reduction and Mitigation Programme. The programme presents itself as one of the most ambitious f…
Law and development working paper series no. 5:
The purpose of this paper is to shed light on some of the potential legal implications of a possible shift or submersion in coastlines as sea levels rise. The paper notes that if such a shift occurs, it may have grave implications, particularly for developing countries that lack the resources and capacity…
Case study on the background, concept and implementation of disaster risk
management in the context of the GTZ-Programme for rural development (PRODER):
The main goal of this case study is to present and systematise experience with the disaster risk management (DRM) activities that have so far taken place within the framework of (Programa para o Desenv…
These guidelines provide a tool to identify, define and prioritize potential environmental impacts in disaster situations, in order to permit quick identification of salient environmental issues in disasters and improve linkages between sustainable environmental management and disaster response.
For this purpose, it offers four modules on the following…
The purpose of this document is to enable the development review process in particular environmental impact assessments (EIA) - to better encourage and promote development design that limits or reduces vulnerability to natural hazards. The component sections of this book are primarily descriptive, providing the background and a framework for the integra…
Studies Of University: Research, Counsel, Education (SOURCE) no. 1/2005
This document analyses and summarises the drivers and components of the unfolding process of defining and conceptualising human security in the environmental context. Next to the intellectual and scientific dimension, this publication analyses also the intergovernmental and politic…