The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, said yesterday that current flood disaster in Peru highlights the challenges of a warming planet.…
Misleading El Niño flood information could be putting lives at risk and resulting in misdirected disaster relief, new research suggests. The new study, published on Wednesday 15 March in Nature…
The year 2016 made history, with a record global temperature, exceptionally low sea ice, and unabated sea level rise and ocean heat, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The…
Natural measures to manage flooding from rivers can play a valuable role in flood prevention, but a lack of monitoring means their true potential remains unclear, researchers say. Such measures,…
Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana’s wetlands, particularly in the westernmost part of the state, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate…
The Afghanistan Meteorological Department (AMD) has reconnected with the world in a move which will help to improve the country’s hydrometeorological hazard early warning systems, according to the World Meteorological…
The Indian National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in Puducherry recently carried out an exercise to assess the preparedness and response mechanism of the Union Territory administration in the event of…
The biggest flood alleviation scheme ever undertaken in Scotland was officially opened today. The £86million project – which took almost five years to complete – will protect around 1,130 residential…
A University of Connecticut climate scientist confirms that more intense and more frequent severe rainstorms will likely continue as temperatures rise due to global warming, despite some observations that seem…
Canadian buildings and infrastructure are being more and more challenged by the impacts of climate change and an increase in extreme weather events such as damaging floods and devastating high…
The Environment Agency in England has announced that construction on the Badsey Brook flood scheme in Worcestershire is due to start in summer 2017. Construction will start this summer on…
Update, 07 March 2017 ECHO reported on 07 March that ENAWO continued moving west south-west over the south-western Indian Ocean and towards north-eastern Madagascar, strengthening. On 7 March at 6.00…
Rainfall from spring-like downpours in the U.S. from February 25 to March 1 were analyzed at NASA using data from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM satellite. Record breaking…
Europe has launched a new drive to protect its heritage sites from the risk of disasters, an issue given added urgency by a string of earthquakes that wrecked age-old buildings…
The winter of 2013-2014 was the wettest winter on record for the UK, and between November 2015 and January 2016 the UK recorded the highest ever rainfall for that period,…
Improvements in forecasting tropical cyclones and reducing associated hazards to life and property are being discussed at the annual meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia…
