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Devoirs de vacances : vérifier ses connaissances en matière de sécurité aux personnes...

Le site officiel de Mougins (Côte d’Azur) offre des informations essentielles en cas de risques majeurs. Toutefois, ces conseils ne concernent pas seulement cette commune et peuvent être transposées pour d’autres lieux de loisir, d’habitation ou professionnel...

Paris-Côte d’Azur International
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Nigeria launches two satellites into orbit to monitor natural disasters

Nigeria worked with UK engineers on the project of two satellites will provide Nigeria with the ability to enhance a variety of applications, including the monitoring of disaster-prone areas...

International Business Times Inc.
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US: NOAA's National Weather Service taking action to build a 'weather-ready' nation

NOAA is launching a comprehensive initiative to make America safer by saving more lives and protecting livelihoods and communities from severe weather events, such as tornado outbreaks, intense heat waves, flooding, active hurricane seasons...

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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El valle de México, en riesgo por el cambio climático

El director de la Conagua, José Luis Luege, alertó que el cambio climático incrementa la vulnerabilidad del valle de México al provocar sequías, lluvias y ciclones de mayor severidad, con lo que se afecta la disponibilidad de agua...

Milenio Diario
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CDEMA: Approach to preparedness must be multi-faceted

The Barbados Advocate reports that Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster and Emergency Management Agency calls for reflecting on lessons learnt to inform future policy, saying 'The emerging agenda for disaster risk reduction will also have to look at the process elements in institutional capacity building and pay more attention to issues of skills and technology transfer...'

Barbados Advocate, the
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France: Un séisme en Cévennes passe inaperçu

Le 4 août dernier à 3h36, un séisme de magnitude de 4 sur l’échelle ouverte de Richter a eu lieu en Cévennes dans une zone assez peu connue pour sa sensibilité sismique, à la limite du Gard, de l’Ardèche et de la Lozère...

Cdurable.info
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Bangladesh: Why a disaster management act is vital' - Op-ed

In this article for the Independant, M. Mizanur Rahman and Javed Ameer show why, with the existing situation of the country, Bangladesh needs the enactment of a Disaster Management Act on an urgent basis...

Independent Publications Limited
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UN atom body wants wider nuclear safety checks

The U.N. atomic agency would carry out international safety checks of ten percent of the world's reactor units over a three-year period, under a draft action plan to prevent any repeat of Japan's nuclear crisis...

Thomson Reuters