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With lidar and artificial intelligence, road status clears up after a disaster

Lidar Artificial Intelligence Road status

2023-04-04

Introduction Consider the days after a hurricane strikes. Trees and debris are blocking roads, bridges are destroyed, and sections...
A Blog from ISC-WDS:knowledge service for disaster risk reduction: a practice using big data technology

disaster risk reduction knowledge service big data

2023-04-04

Content A Blog from World Data System of International Science Council (ISC-WDS) was released, namely “knowledge service for disas...
How to fight COVID-19 with machine learning

Machine Learning COVID-19 Data Science Artificial Intelligence

2023-04-04

Introduction Viral pandemics are a serious threat. COVID-19 is not the first, and it won’t be the last. But, like never before, we...
Extreme weather events in a time of COVID-19

Cyclone Epidemic & Pandemic

2023-04-04

Introduction GENEVA - Some of the world’s most disaster-prone nations are gearing up for their greatest challenge in the coming mo...
Smoke from Western wildfires can influence Arctic sea ice, researchers find

wildfires Arctic sea ice

2023-04-04

Abstract New CU Boulder research finds that the presence of clouds—or lack thereof—caused by the smoke of wildfires thousands of...
Desert climate overtaking more of Central Asia

Central Asia Desert Climate

2023-04-04

Abstract Rising annual temperatures and dwindling yearly precipitation across the mid-latitudes of Central Asia have extended it...
Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades

Afghanistan Earthquake

2023-04-04

Abstract GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) — A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednes...
New tool helps withstand hybrid and cascading risk scenarios

Hybrid risks New tool

2023-04-04

Recent events – such as cyberattacks cascading into health systems and compromising patient lives through attacks on healthcare mo...
Typhoon Lekima: 28 dead and a million evacuated in China

dead Typhoon

2023-04-04

At least 28 people have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes as Typhoon Lekima hit China, according to stat...
UNDRR urges disaster management agencies to prioritize biological hazards

biological hazards disaster management agencies

2023-04-04

Introduction GENEVA, 12 March, 2020 - The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori...

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