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Asia-Pacific commemorates World Tsunami Awareness Day with a focus on inclusive risk governance

Tsunami

2023-04-04

Abstract In the past two decades, earthquakes and tsunamis were the deadliest form of disasters accounting for 58% of total disas...
General Assembly puts the Sendai Framework at the centre of COVID-19 response and recovery policy

Hazards Epidemic & Pandemic

2023-04-04

Abstract As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, Member States of the United Nations have agreed to put the Sendai Fram...
Strengthening and learning from China’s work in Disaster Risk Reduction

Cyclone Earthquake Epidemic & Pandemic

2023-04-04

Abstract Since June, China has been battling severe flooding caused by unprecedented rainfall, especially in basin areas of the Y...
Central Asia plans to implement the “DesInventar-Sendai” system software for disaster risk reduction

Capacity Development

2023-04-04

Abstract The United Nations office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration with the CIMA Research Foundation and th...
Mangrove forests won’t be able to spread further in South Africa, so protecting them is crucial

Ecosystems Ecological Restoration Mangrove Forest

2023-04-04

Abstract Through a combination of species modelling and ocean modelling, Jacqueline L Raw discovered it is South Africa’s high w...
Millions at risk as drylands degrade, finds study

Drylands research degradation and desertification

2023-04-04

Abstract Drylands are experiencing increasingly levels of degradation and desertification, changes that could put already vulnera...
Predict, Monitor, and Mobilize: Deploying AI for Smart Disaster Response

Artificial intelligence Climate change Data science Disaster response Machine learning

2023-04-04

Abstract As climate change unfolds, natural disasters that strike with previously unthinkable force have become our new normal. ...
Study shows Urban Green Cover Impacts Human Mortality Rates

Ecosystems Ecological Restoration Human Mortality Rate Urban Green Cover

2023-04-04

Abstract A recent nationwide study announced in summer 2022 led by the Boston University School of Public Health in US has spelle...
Devastating Floods in Pakistan

remote sensing Floods

2023-04-04

Abstract Since mid-June 2022, Pakistan has been drenched by extreme monsoon rains that have led to the country’s worst flooding ...
New AI system predicts how to prevent wildfires

Neural network wildfire prediction

2023-04-04

Abstract Wildfires are a growing threat in a world shaped by climate change. Now, researchers at Aalto University have developed...

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