Today in disaster resilience (6 December 2024) Please find below links to some aspects of disaster resilience that were in the news recently… Recent emergencies/disasters Record rains and 3 dead as Cyclone Fengal makes landfall over Puducherry, India https://watchers.news/2024/12/01/record-rain...
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. Star ecologist accused of misconduct loses university post Tree researcher Thomas Crowther is seeking to move his laboratory from ETH Zurich, which says it ...
An open-source AI system aims to predict human moral judgments across a broad spectrum of everyday situations expressed in natural language. Identifying the limitations of such systems offers important insights for future work. M. J. Crockett News & Views13 Jan 2025 Nature Machine Intelligence ...
Canada deputy PM quits in tariff rift with Trudeau Climate Change China’s coastal water temperatures hit record high in 2024 Losses from natural disasters in Asia-Pacific, Africa soar to US$91 billion in 2024: Munich Re BlackRock leaves major climate group amid Wall Street exodus Currencies OUTL...
In the wake of one of Europe’s biggest natural disasters in 50 years, scientists must work with local communities to avert further catastrophes. María Carmen Llasat Comments & Opinion26 Nov 2024Nature Volume: 635, P: 787 New methods for deprecating artificial intelligence systems will preserve...
In a first of its kind initiative, the government of Uttarakhand is set to refurbish six houses located in Jadung Village, into homestays, which would be operated/run by villagers. Under theVibrant Village Programme, the houses will be refurbished in vernacular architecture using locally available...
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As an island country, Indonesia is vulnerable to natural disasters and struggles in enhancing its power grid resilience. As a result of the optimal IP65 protection level and C5 anti-corrosion capacity, the solution is resilient to harsh conditions like high humidity, earthquake...
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Earthquakes yes, disasters no Alik Ismail-Zadeh ReviewsOpen Access30 Dec 2024npj Natural Hazards Volume: 1, P: 46 Characterisation of the optical response to seismic waves of submarine telecommunications cables with distributed and integrated fibre-optic sensing ...