DISASTER MANAGEMENT

News About Disaster Management

4,581 articles

Murder rate in Amazon far higher than rest of Brazil: study
Dec 11, 2024 (AFP)
Last year, there were 32.3 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in the vast rainforest region, compared with a nationwide rate of 22.8 -- a 41.5-percent difference...
India, Pakistan share climate challenges but not solutions
Dec 06, 2024 (AFP)
The neighbouring nations, which have fought three wars since their 1947 partition and still bitterly dispute Kashmir, are suffocated every winter by a haze of p...
Natural disasters cause $310bn in economic losses in 2024: Swiss Re
Dec 05, 2024 (AFP)
The estimated economic losses from natural disasters were six-percent higher than in 2023, which currently stands as the hottest year ever, the Zurich-based rei...
13 missing after south China railway construction site collapse
Dec 05, 2024 (AFP)
The ground under a section of the Shenzhen-Jiangmen railway site "suddenly collapsed" around 11 pm (1500 GMT) Wednesday, according to a statement from the Bao'a...
Four decades of horror after India's Bhopal gas disaster
Dec 04, 2024 (AFP)
Her feeble cries were drowned out by the screams of men, women and children as they ran to escape the cloud of highly toxic gas leaking from the Union Carbide f...
Eight dead after 'overloaded' boat capsizes in southwest China
Dec 04, 2024 (AFP)
Five survivors were rescued from the scene of the accident, which took place in Guizhou province on Monday, according to an online statement by the national eme...
Angry at Spain's flood response, 100,000 rally in Valencia
Nov 30, 2024 (AFP)
The protest followed a series of rallies marking a month's passing since the disaster, the nation's worst in a generation. Both the central and regional governm...
Spain urged to 'build differently' after deadly floods
Nov 29, 2024 (AFP)
The worst floods to hit Spain in decades on October 29 killed at least 230 people, covered towns in mud and debris, destroyed bridges, roads and rail lines and ...
Lebanon's army chief Joseph Aoun, a man with a tough mission
Nov 29, 2024 (AFP)
Aoun, 60, was set to retire last January after heading the army since 2017, but has had his mandate extended twice -- the last time on Thursday. The army, widel...
China says Trump's threatened fentanyl tariffs won't 'solve' US problems
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
The United States is facing an epidemic of deaths caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin and much easier and cheaper to produce...
UK signs deals with Iraq aimed at curbing irregular immigration
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
Interior minister Yvette Cooper said the pacts sent "a clear signal to the criminal smuggling gangs that we are determined to work across the globe to go after ...
Flood-hit Spain introduces 'climate leave' for workers; Flood-hit Spanish town struggles one month on
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
Several companies came under fire after the October 29 catastrophe for ordering employees to keep working despite a red alert issued by the national weather age...
The future of energy-efficient edge AI sensors
Nov 26, 2024 (SPX)
Current self-powered optoelectronic synaptic devices used in PRC face challenges in handling time-series data across varied timescales, a necessity for applicat...
Center for Catastrophe Modeling advances disaster preparedness solutions
Nov 26, 2024 (SPX)
"Better modeling means better preparedness," said Dr. Paolo Bocchini, Director of the Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience. "The rapid intensification...
Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
In North Sumatra, the bodies of five people listed as missing had been pulled from under a mountain of mud and debris, agency spokesman Abdul Muhari said in a s...
MapGuard enhances emergency evacuation tools across the Baltics
Nov 25, 2024 (SPX)
In response, the European Space Agency (ESA), through its Civil Security from Space programme, has teamed up with Estonian technology company Guardtime to devel...
France unveils new measures to combat violence against women
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
Equality Minister Salima Saa unveiled a raft of initiatives two days after tens of thousands of people staged new demonstrations in French cities against violen...
China zeroes in on 'common' disputes in wake of deadly attacks
Nov 24, 2024 (AFP)
China has witnessed a spate of violent incidents in recent months -- from mass stabbings to car rammings -- a rare development for a country with a proud reputa...
Failure haunts UN environment conferences
Nov 23, 2024 (AFP)
Since the first UN climate conference in 1995, several of the annual sessions have descended into acrimony or even failed completely because of a lack of consen...
Analysis of Fukushima debris sample could take a year: operator
Nov 21, 2024 (AFP)
The analysis could shed light on radioactivity levels and the chemical structure of the fuel debris -- a key part of preparation for the decades-long decommissi...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.