Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Heavy rains and strong winds that prevailed in Colombo and suburbs throughout yesterday uprooted trees in several places causing damages to public property while lightning caused fire at a shoe shop in Homagama. An old tree located on the boundary of the Police Field Force Headquarters in Bambalapitiya fell yesterday afternoon due to the strong winds. No casualties were reported in the incident. In Fort near the Regal Cinema another tree had been uprooted and fallen on to a moving bus due to rough weather.
More than 50 years after it was set up, Civil Defence is set to undergo a major shift in its duties with the Centre deciding to give its volunteers the responsibility of dealing with natural disasters. Raised after the 1962 Sino-Indian war, its primary duty so far has been to protect people and property from external aggression.
Nearly 40,000 Katrina Families Still In Mobile Homes US: April 3, 2008 ORLANDO, Fla. - Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 40,000 families still are living in vulnerable mobile homes and trailers across the US Gulf Coast with another hurricane season just two months away, the top US disaster official said on Wednesday.
Actual loss suffered by farmers is much higher, says K.P. Rajendran
In 2008, World Health Day focuses on the need to protect health from the adverse effects of climate change. WHO selected this theme in recognition that climate change is posing ever growing threats to global public health security.
How did South Asian societies rebuild their economies following natural disasters?
A destructive combination of earthquakes, floods, droughts and other hazards make South Asia is the world
This paper highlights the impact of environmental degradation on migration. Through a gravity regression model, it assesses the impact of thirteen global environmental factors on migration flows across 172 countries of the world.
The colonial dispensation in north Bihar believed that the rivers of the flood plains needed to be controlled. The zamindar became the pivot around which the implementation of these flood control efforts revolved. Along with the railways and roads, the uncontrolled manner in which many zamindary embankments were built led to a deterioration in the flood situation.
A meeting convened to discuss the preparedness of monsoon and to adopt preventive measures in future and action to be taken before the onset of monsoon was held at South Goa Collectorate building in M