Far North Mayor Moko Tepania is encouraging his hard-hit community to reach out for help as the district’s fragile roading network falters in the face of widespread flooding.
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When the offshore fault that is one day expected to generate a massive tsunami off the coast of Napier ruptures, 77-year-old Valerie Norton won’t panic....
A new generation of students have joined the group, which became a symbol of hope after the quake.
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Studies are investigating potential faults beneath Auckland, newly identified faultlines in Wairarapa and signs of past shaking near Hamilton.
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As cities around the country brace for increasingly frequent floods and cyclones, and more homes are deemed unsafe and red-stickered by councils, a pressing question will be what to do with the materials from these storm-damaged homes?
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A series of tremors shook Kerikeri this week.
Researchers studied hundreds of scientific studies and hazard assessments, calculating that about 90% of them underestimated baseline coastal water heights by an average of 30 centimetres.
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Auckland Council says it's just the start and more property acquisitions are planned.
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Scientists will soon start to dig trenches across some of the lines to see if they are active and could cause earthquakes.
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The Government has intervened after a warning Wairoa residents would be exposed to an “intolerable risk to life” from severe weather if critical flood prot
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At Mumbai Climate Week, the WMO-WHO Climate and Health Joint Programme, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Wellcome announced two new integrated initiatives to protect South Asians from extreme heat – a rapidly escalating threat to human health and economic stability in the subcontinent. “Few regions feel the impacts of extreme heat as sharply as South Asia, and I welcome the clear determination to respond. We all know that every death primarily due to excess heat can be prevented and heat health action plans are saving lives,” said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo.
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Recent severe weather and flooding have seen a huge number of 'states of emergency' declared across the country. In fact, there has already been more states of emergency declared in 2026 than all of last year, and we're only in February. So, what's behind this rise and how does the whole process work? John Price, Director of Civil Defence Emergency Management spoke to Jesse.
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After another run of storms, do declarations of states of emergency risk "crying wolf"?
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A large, low-pressure system has caused flooding, power outages, school closures, evacuations and travel disruptions in the lower North Island, and is heading towards the south.
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This was one of the key messages from the Central Africa workshop on strengthening coordination between NMHS, National Disaster Risk Management Authorities, and regional entities supporting the production and dissemination of early warnings. The workshop, co-organized by WMO, UNDRR and ECCAS, took place in Ndjamena, Chad, on 10-12 February, and sought to strengthen collaboration and operational procedures between early warning stakeholders in all Central African nations.
Insurance companies are in retreat from some communities deemed too dangerous to cover, so where is less risk-prone?
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With fires and floods occurring simultaneously, and overlapping with international deployments, sharing critical resources is becoming an increasingly complex task.
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Barry Shepherd has helped at some of the most confronting national and international disasters. His extensive disaster relief CV includes the 2004 Boxing Day...
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The Government defends its decision not to call an emergency COBRA meeting.
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Seventeen years after Black Saturday, experts reflect on what was learnt from the disaster and how it informs Victoria's current bushfire response.
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Asaeli Ratuwara felt an instant connection with the national broadcaster and has seen how vital the service is especially during disasters.
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The 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Vanuatu in late 2024 caused damage across the country and the impacts are still being felt today.
Luci Harrison says she had to get a second mortgage to help pay for a retaining wall after her house was damaged in the Auckland Anniversary floods.
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An East Cape settlement might suffer more damage in coming days unless the local council clears a stream bed that was raised about 1.5m by a devastating flood last month, locals say.
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Insurers have begun their retreat as climate change bites. Back-to-back disasters in recent years have pushed insured loss into the billions and forced tough...
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The US Geological Survey believed yesterday's would potentially tie with the sixth largest earthquake recorded, which happened in Chile in 2010, but said it needs more data to verify that.
Humanitarian crises are intensifying due to conflict and climate change. The United Nations, through OCHA, leads efforts to bring the world together to tackle humanitarian emergencies and save the lives of people caught in crises.
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