McGill University has launched a new intervention lab to improve crisis response in the event of a future pandemic, or other emergency, such as climate disasters. Dr. Prativa Baral is the lab's co-director.
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Aboriginal residents in the Northern Territory's Daly Region are dismayed they've had to move away from their remote community to Darwin, as rising flood waters threaten their homes.
In a meeting Tuesday, councillors approved increasing the maximum grant from 25% to 40% of a property's pre-storm capital value where mitigation is considered the best practicable way to reduce risk to life.
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Three years after the Auckland Anniversary floods, the community is working together to turn the Wairau creek catchment into something residents won't fear.
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The decision will be the first of many as the full force of climate change arrives, a researcher says.
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Engineers told the council buildings should not usually be allowed in "runout" zones.
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Extreme weather may be the trigger for deadly and devastating slash, but the lines on who is responsible for prevention and clean-up are blurred.
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The floods keep coming, and we keep rebuilding. Is there a better way to cope with increasing numbers of infrastructure-wrecking storms?
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The scale of the Bay of Plenty landslides has been revealed by new photographs taken just before and after the fatal disasters struck the region. Deadly...
Access to some Northland communities isolated since last Sunday has been restored.
Lessons learnt during Cyclone Gabrielle three years ago have proved invaluable for marae on Northland's east coast, leading the response to last week's massive storm.
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Insurance and Financial Services Ombudsman Karen Stevens talks to Ryan Bridge to give advice to people making insurance claims on weather-related damage fo
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Experts and officials agree: community resilience will have to be first line of defence against worsening storm events
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Earlier this month, an intense heatwave saw temperatures soar above 40 degrees across parts of south-eastern Australia.
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A disaster expert says there are sometimes warning signs of a landslide to look out for during heavy rain events.
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Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and fueling Antarctica’s marine food web. For decades, scientists have attributed these pulses of life to familiar forces – sunlight, winds, and ocean circulation. But new research suggests another, far less visible driver may be at work: earthquakes beneath the seafloor, whose activity may be influencing ocean surface conditions.
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In a bushfire-prone area in outer Melbourne, a group of students is taking part in a two-way learning exchange to improve bushfire safety.
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Understanding what is happening deep beneath the ocean surface is key to understanding the weather patterns we are experiencing on land.
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"Solar weather" doesn't pose a threat to human health - but it does to our technology.
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"Those events are happening more and more and communities are paying for it emotionally, but mostly financially," Rehette Stoltz says.
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In this edition of The Conversation Hour we explore how much prefab housing could be used as a form of temporary housing particularly in the wake of catastrophic bushfires. Also, in this program, do we need better support for renters after bushfires, do they slip between the cracks?
Less than a month after the Tongariro fires, communities have a new evacuation plan. They are ready if needed, though they hope such an event won't return.
The exact number of properties, which included both rural and urban properties, is set to increase.
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Record rainfall caused widespread damage across the district, the worst in 150 years, after it was hit by floods twice in as many weeks during June and July.
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State government reports have found that while social media plays a vital role in warning communities during tropical cyclones, some posts can lack context and spread misinformation.
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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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