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- This award supports people with disabilities working in disasters, as well as those who care for, study, or advocate on behalf of those with disabilities.
- If you think that rivers only exist on land, think again. Atmospheric rivers are rivers in the sky.
- Healthy rivers can no longer be separated into the ‘nice-to-have' column of environmental progress
- The Canadian electricity sector's ability to withstand extreme weather events fuelled by climate change is a “work in progress,” says head of industry group.
- Researchers used supercomputers to create millennia of simulated earthquakes in Southern California, then studied what hazard these quakes might create.
- New research from First Street Foundation analyzes the economic impact of underestimated flood risk to properties throughout the United States.
- We shouldn't be surprised when our rivers break their banks — that's just a river being a river. But it can lead to disaster.
- CGI was awarded a contract to develop a new wildfire mapping service to help better map and monitor the impact of wildfires.
- Preparations not reviewed since 2006 but self-reporting in February 2020 claimed they were at highest level.
- New reports of Ebola in Guinea are causing anxiety given the history of the West Africa outbreak of 2014-2016. This was the largest Ebola outbreak reported to date.