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2020 Disaster Estimations Reveal at Least $3.6 Billion in Uncovered Losses

Uncovered Losses Unsupported Producers Weather Disasters

2023-04-03

Abstract AFBF’s Market Intel is publishing a two-part series to highlight the agricultural losses that occurred in 2020 due to we...
Climate crisis drives Mediterranean coral populations to collapse

Heatwaves Climate crisis

2023-04-03

Abstract A new study led by teams of the Faculty of Biology, the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the UB, and the Inst...
ADPC hosts workshop on the Baseline Assessment for Disaster Preparedness and Response in Cambodia

baseline assessment emergency response disaster Preparedness Cambodia

2023-04-03

Abstract The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) organized a workshop on baseline assessment for disaster preparedness and r...
World-first bushfire hazard detection system aiming to save lives, property and environment

Bushfire hazards

2023-04-03

Abstract A world-first real-time bushfire hazard detection and warning system using artificial intelligence (AI) is under develo...
Deforestation-fueled heat already affecting millions of outdoor workers in the tropics

Deforestation-fueled tropics

2023-04-03

Abstract Pledges made in Glasgow at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, are urgently needed by communit...
Disaster relief could benefit from neural net combining multiple remote data sources

Data fusion Remote sensing Neural net technique Rapid Disaster Response

2023-04-03

Abstract In an example of the burgeoning field of 'data fusion', researchers have developed a neural net technique that bridges ...
Sendai Framework Monitor endorsed at HLPF

HLPE sendai framework monitor

2023-04-03

Abstract The Sendai Framework Monitor received a ringing endorsement at the High Level Political Forum (HLPF) for Sustainable Dev...
964,600 Residents Relocated in China's Hunan Due to Flood

relief China floods

2023-04-03

A total of 47 people died and 22 people are missing by flood wreaked in central Hunan Province and Zhuang Autonomous Region in G...
Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration and Ali cloud make a deal to start the post-earthquake capture AI contest

China Earthquake Administration AI Ali cloud

2023-04-03

Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration and Ali cloud officially launched the first earthquake as the theme of ...
Rome Declaraton on DRR adopted

disaster risk reduction rome declaration

2023-04-03

Abstract ROME, 23 November, 2018 - The Rome Declaration was adopted today by representatives of 55 countries at the close of the ...

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