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UNESCO released a disaster science popularizing video on the International Day for Disaster Reduction, 13 October, 2020. Disaster ...

Abstract In the past two decades, earthquakes and tsunamis were the deadliest form of disasters accounting for 58% of total disas...

Abstract As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, Member States of the United Nations have agreed to put the Sendai Fram...

Abstract Since June, China has been battling severe flooding caused by unprecedented rainfall, especially in basin areas of the Y...

Abstract The United Nations office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration with the CIMA Research Foundation and th...

Abstract Through a combination of species modelling and ocean modelling, Jacqueline L Raw discovered it is South Africa’s high w...

Abstract Drylands are experiencing increasingly levels of degradation and desertification, changes that could put already vulnera...

Abstract As climate change unfolds, natural disasters that strike with previously unthinkable force have become our new normal. ...

Abstract A recent nationwide study announced in summer 2022 led by the Boston University School of Public Health in US has spelle...

Abstract Since mid-June 2022, Pakistan has been drenched by extreme monsoon rains that have led to the country’s worst flooding ...