Tag: Natural Disasters

Can Cows Predict Earthquakes? Animal Observation Could Serve as an Early Warning System

Written by Leonie Asendorpf, 09-09-2020

A new research project is looking into whether there's scientific truth behind a long-held, but as yet untested, belief - that animals are able to sense imminent earthquakes. These new insights might be able to help us predict earthquakes in the future, set up early warning systems and ultimately limit their damage. Read on

Development

Pouncer: The World’s First Incredible, Edible Drone

Written by Marisa Pettit, 04-01-2017

Forget Foodora and Deliveroo, the most important invention revolutionising food delivery is actually a drone; one that’s good enough to eat. Read on

Responsibility

Airbnb to Help Find Shelter for Those Displaced by Disasters

Written by Anna Rees, 03-11-2014

Authorities in the Australian state of Victoria recently partnered with online accommodation website Airbnb to deliver a project that will offer emergency shelter to people displaced by natural disasters. Read on

Climate Protection

Natural disasters in Asia result in fewer deaths but higher economic loss

Written by Anna Rees, 12-12-2012

A report released by the United Nations agency for disaster reduction (UNISDR) and the Louvain University Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has shown that natural disasters are causing fewer deaths in Asia but are affecting the lives of more people. Read on

Chances

Report details how climate change impacts human rights

Written by Anna Rees, 10-12-2012

Environmental Justice Foundation has today released a report and short film which highlights exactly how climate change infringes upon our most intrinsic rights. Read on

Climate Protection

Superstorms and the links to climate change

Written by Anna Rees, 01-11-2012

Four of the five most financially destructive US storms have occurred within the past seven years. As the US and Caribbean nations labour through the devastating impact of Hurricane Sandy, little has been said about the links between natural disasters and climate change. Read on

42 million displaced by sudden natural disasters in 2010

Recommended by Uta Mühleis, 19-06-2011

Over 42 million people across the world were forced to flee due to disasters triggered by sudden-onset natural hazards in 2010, according to a new study by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)’s Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). In 2009, 17 million people were displaced by such disasters, and 36 million in 2008. To source

AASU, TMPK launch stir against mega dams

Recommended by Sarah-Indra Jungblut, 07-07-2010

The joint agitation of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and the Takam Mising Porin Kebang (TMPK) in support of their demands for revocation of all the proposals to set up mega hydel power projects in the NE region, solving Assam’s flood and erosion problems and saving the largest inhabited river island Majuli, started today. To source

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