As a result of climate change, the world is experiencing more severe disasters, such as extreme heat waves, storms and droughts, and many governments are not sufficiently prepared to get early ...
The magnitude 4.4 quake — centered near Highland Park on Monday — came with an early warning from California’s quake alert system. It was not immediately clear how many people got the alert. But it is ...
The system wasn't working when a tsunami struck Sunday, killing hundreds. Tsunamis have devastated the shorelines of Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries before, but the subsequent deaths and ...
The FAO is attempting to raise awareness and understanding of early warning tools and systems in food safety to support their wider use. Early warning systems play a role in reducing the potential ...
The first step to solving a problem is identifying that you have one. For schools using early-warning systems, though, the problem is identification isn’t enough. Early-warning systems use student ...
The Pentagon may soon release its first-ever Biodefense Posture Review, a study that will assess how prepared the Department of Defense is for future pandemics or the threat of bioweapons use. In our ...
This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was observed on 13 October 2022, focused on the objective to “Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard ...
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s failure to collaborate on a proposal submitted by climate scientists to develop a dengue early ...
A network of sensors that can provide crucial seconds notice of a possibly serious earthquake is now up and running in Quebec ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Your phone can now warn you before an earthquake arrives. Yes, before. “Be-be-boop! Be-be-boop! Earthquake,” rang an app on my iPhone at 11:42 a.m. on Oct. 25. “Drop, cover, hold on, ...