DISASTER MANAGEMENT

News About Disaster Management

4,581 articles

'Too awful': Anger at acquittals in Fukushima case
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
More than eight years after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, only three people have faced criminal prosecution in relation to the Fukushima disaster,...
Bangladesh rural poor bear financial burden of climate change: study
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
Bangladesh -- a densely populated and impoverished low-lying nation of 168 million people -- is among the most vulnerable to global warming with rising sea leve...
Japan court acquits energy bosses over Fukushima disaster
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
The three men were senior officials at the TEPCO firm operating the Fukushima Daiichi plant and had faced up to five years in prison if convicted. "All defendan...
U.S. military wraps up its mission in Bahamas after hurricane
Sep 18, 2019 (UPI)
The hurricane hovered over the island nation for about 40 hours beginning on Sept. 3, and the United States military has been involved in relief efforts since. ...
France gives more people iodine pills in case of nuclear accident
Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)
The ASN nuclear safety authority had announced in June an extension of the safety radius to 20 kilometres (12 miles) of each plant, up from 10 kilometres set in...
Almost 80,000 homes still without power a week after Japan typhoon
Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)
Typhoon Faxai powered into the Tokyo region in the early hours of Monday last week, packing record winds that brought down power lines, disrupted Rugby World Cu...
Intelsat And Team Rubicon: Connecting Communities Through Rapid Disaster Response
Sep 16, 2019 (SPX)
Team Rubicon was born in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in 2010. Two former marines, Jake Wood and William McNulty, decided traditional relief efforts we...
After Dorian, Bahamas drowning in a flood of donations
Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)
At the Christ Episcopal Church in Coconut Grove, the center of Miami's Bahamian community, the first round of donations was organized on September 2. Since then...
Report: Air Force calls diversion of funds for border wall a national security risk
Sep 13, 2019 (UPI)
The report, obtained by NBC News, outlines 51 military projects scheduled to lose funding, and their importance to national security. Contraction projects suppo...
US veteran and hunter becomes unlikely gun control advocate
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
The final straw came, the 45-year-old Iraq War veteran says, when he found himself having to cope with former brothers in arms dying by suicide after returning ...
Japan still weighing dump of Fukushima radioactive water into ocean
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
"It is not true that we have decided on the disposal method," Chief Cabinet Minister Yoshihide Suga told reporters after Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada's ...
Pentagon to keep 5,500 troops at Mexico border
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
A week after announcing it would divert $3.6 billion in funds for the construction of an anti-migrant wall on the frontier, the Pentagon said it had also approv...
After horror of Dorian, Bahamas struggling to shelter survivors
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
"Plenty people dead," says Marie Claude Baptiste, the 46-year-old mother, in broken English. She does not say where she is from, though the area she has fled wa...
One week after Dorian, Bahamians struggle amid the ruins
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
Dorian, now classified as a post-tropical storm, caused "severe damage" in eastern Canada and was expected to move soon into the North Atlantic after cutting a ...
US Congress returns after a bloody August sharpens focus on guns
Sep 08, 2019 (AFP)
Horrific public shootings last month in El Paso and Odessa, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio left 38 dead, galvanizing activists and other Americans into demanding th...
Cautious Charleston residents stay on in hurricane shelter -- with pets
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
As the storm approached, Eric McKinney, 36, his grandmother and his black-and-white Chihuahua "Baby" arrived at a shelter in North Charleston the day before. "I...
U.S., Britain, China send military, financial aid to stricken Bahamas
Sep 06, 2019 (UPI)
U.S. military and civilian emergency teams from the United States have been sent to the Bahamas, where tens of thousands of people need food and supplies after ...
Selfies from the disaster zone: how TV show changed Chernobyl tourism
Sep 05, 2019 (AFP)
"They do not need information anymore, they just want to take a selfie," said Yevgen Goncharenko, an official plant guide, at the site of the worst nuclear acci...
'This is the fun part': the US businesses defying Dorian's wrath
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
After devastating the Bahamas, where it killed at least 20 people, and appearing to have largely spared Florida, US states farther north are preparing to take a...
Disappointment for Beira cyclone victims hoping for Pope Francis visit
Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)
In March, Cyclone Idai roared across Mozambique's second city, bringing floods that killed more than 600 people and wrecking homes, businesses and crops. Maria,...
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.