Latest news on Disaster Risk Reduction
- University students, software developers, tech start-up leaders and computer engineers meet to create innovative ways of aiding Rio with climate change losses.
- Australia and California both experience major wildfires, yet the former is far ahead of the United States in relation to its early warning systems.
- SROCC report explains changing climate is causing oceans to become warmer, more acidic, and to lose oxygen, the effects of which has severe implications for Indonesia.
- Low-frequency rumbles that herald tornadoes could be used to predict when and where they will strike, with the potential to detect a tornado from over 100 miles.
- World Bank issues catastrophe-linked bonds to provide the Philippines with financial protection, up to US$75 million for earthquakes, and US$150 million for cyclones.
- Facing a range of natural hazards exacerbated by climate change, Cabo Verde joins a growing number of island nations enlisting the help of the Pacific Disaster Center.
- University of South Florida geoscientists develop high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect changes in seafloor that are often a precursor to deadly natural hazards.
- Rainforest authorities say the damage, across an environment supposed to naturally suppress fires, is among the clearest evidence that climate change has shifted.
- Bangladesh should make its rural infrastructures resilient, by making them durable and safe so that they can help sustain economic growth.
- Glyphosate sprayed on forests kills slow-burning trees, leaving more flammable species vulnerable, while diversifying the forest creates landscape resilience.