Countries from India to the Philippines, already struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, are likely to also battle weather-related crises, from heat waves to cyclones, in coming months, disaster experts warned…
Update, 08 April 2020: Tropical Cyclone Harold has also caused severe damage in Fiji. Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said buildings have been flattened and communities flooded. Fiji’s National Disaster Management…
Solomon Islands Meteorological Service said on 03 April that Tropical Cyclone Harold was 67 km south-west of Anuta Island, Makira Province and moving east-southeast. Heavy rain was reported in Vanuatu…
PHNOM PENH, June 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pacific island nations are some of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, yet only a handful have signed up to an insurance scheme…
A low pressure area that has been lingering near Vanuatu in the Southern Pacific Ocean has consolidated into a tropical cyclone. NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Keni…
Tropical Cyclone Hola formed over the South-West Pacific Ocean on 06 March, 2018. Heavy rain, strong winds and storm surge have been forecast for parts of Vanuatu and later New…
Vanuatu launched its new Tsunami early warning system earlier this month. The new system has been funded by the government of Japan. The Minister of Climate Change launched the 9…
A regional organisation is warning of the dire consequences faced by many Pacific nations in the face of a possible El Niño in 2017 and urged countries to start planning…
Tropical Cyclone Cook formed in the Southern Pacific Ocean and on Sunday, 09 April, 2017 and moved across the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific Ocean on early…
LONDON, Dec 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Small Pacific island states could be hit by more tropical cyclones during future El Nino weather patterns due to climate change, scientists said…
As a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of the Solomon Islands, triggering a tsunami warning across the Pacific, many residents of the tiny country would have turned to…
The third in our series of cases studies in the use of drones in disaster risk reduction and recovery looks at how drones were used to carry out disaster damage…
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) aim to reduce disaster losses in some of the world’s most hazard prone cities…
Tropical Cyclone Winston has swept across parts of Fiji causing widespread storm damage and flooding, leaving hundreds of homes totally destroyed. Quoting figures from the country’s National Disaster Management Office,…
PARIS, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States will contribute $30 million to climate risk insurance schemes in the Pacific, Central America and Africa, President Barack Obama announced…
Oxfam and Deloitte in New Zealand have teamed up to develop a logistics framework and management plans for disaster support and relief in the Pacific region, using expertise and insight…
