DISASTER MANAGEMENT - RUSSO DAILY

In Mexico's earthquake, tragedies and miracles

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

Here is a collection of accounts from the hard-hit capital Mexico City: - A sister's love - "We're here, the whole family. We will not move until we have you wi...

Puerto Rico governor fears 'humanitarian crisis' over slow US aid

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

With federal aid only trickling in, many Puerto Ricans have already started their own cleanup operations, with some small shops and restaurants reopening with t...

Blame starts to fly over Mexico quake collapses

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

The most high-profile collapse occurred at a school where 19 children were killed last week -- a structure which was built illegally on land reserved for housin...

One week on, jittery Mexico far from coming to grips with quake

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

Nearly a week on, hopes fade in Mexico City quake rescue operations

Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)

Yet authorities were still accommodating anguished families who insisted that painstaking rescue operations continue at a handful of the dozens of buildings top...

Rapid imaging of granular matter

Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)

A team of researchers led by Christoph Muller at the Department of Mechanical and Process engineering of the ETH Zurich and Klaas Prussmann at the Institute for...

NASA Tech Aids Search Following Mexico Quake

Sep 25, 2017 (JPL)

This technology was developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Direct...

Psychologists help Mexico deal with double trauma of quake

Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)

Whole brigades of volunteer psychologists have deployed to the collapsed buildings in Mexico City where anguished families are clinging to the fading hope that ...

Frida, the four-legged heroine of Mexico's quake rescues

Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)

The golden labrador is using her sense of smell to try to detect any survivors left in the wreckage of buildings brought down on Tuesday by the 7.1-magnitude ea...

In Dominica, islanders stand strong despite chaos

Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)

Maria killed 15 people when it tore through the "Nature Island" -- population 72,000 -- as a Category Five storm, leaving its once-luscious green mountains stri...

NASA-Produced Damage Maps May Aid Mexico Quake Response

Sep 22, 2017 (JPL)

To assist in the disaster response efforts, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, both in Pasadena, California, obtained and used before-a...

What now? Mexicans in shelters ask themselves after quake

Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)

Both survived, but her home was damaged and now she's in a shelter, with no money, not knowing how to face the future. She, like thousands living in the capital...

Japan government not responsible for Fukushima: court

Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)

The district court in Chiba near Tokyo said the government "was able to foresee" but "may not have been able to avoid the accident" caused by the tsunami that s...

Puerto Rico wants US aid after quake but not second-class treatment

Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)

The US island territory buckled under the weight of $70 billion in debt and filed for bankruptcy protection in May. Now, with its power grid wiped out and many ...

MIT engineers attempt to predict extreme events

Sep 22, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at MIT have developed a set of mathematical equations that can be used to identify patterns that precede extreme events, like a rogue wave or instab...

Bangladesh army steps up as Rohingya suffer heavy rain

Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)

Troops would be deployed immediately in Cox's Bazar near the border where more than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims have arrived since August 25, said Obaidul Quader, ...

Desperate parents, missing children at quake-hit Mexico City school

Sep 20, 2017 (AFP)

At least 21 children died when a three story wing of the Enrique Rebsamen school collapsed after a 7.1 magnitude quake struck Mexico on Tuesday. Thirty children...

British Virgin Islands under curfew as new storm approaches

Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)

"While Hurricane Maria may not be as strong as Hurricane Irma, our present reality is also very different," Orlando Smith, the premier of the self-governing Bri...

Hurricane-hit St Martin takes first steps to rebuild

Sep 17, 2017 (AFP)

Out on the roads, soldiers and volunteers work side by side to clear debris clogging the streets, stocking branches, metal sheets and other rubble in long piles...

France's hurricane-hit St Martin on guard for health threats

Sep 16, 2017 (AFP)

Just over a week after Hurricane Irma devastated the island and neighbouring St Barthelemy, killing 15 people, pools of stagnant water and mounds of trash seem ...