Aug 20, 2019
NASA is a critical scientific data source for disaster management decision making around the world. It provides near real-time imagery and remote sensing products to help detect global precipitation, fires, possible landslides, and numerous other atmospheric, oceanic,...
Aug 14, 2019
A Myanmar project to build disaster monitoring and early warning capacity to protect the country’s 53 million people who call the country home entered its final phase, where local disaster management experts will continue the advances made in the past 27 months. The...
Aug 2, 2019
In a show of global cooperation, 18 nations came together alongside several international organizations for one of the most ambitious combined disaster response exercises in Southeast Asia to date. Countries from Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North America participated...
Jul 23, 2019
An all-encompassing disaster risk reduction initiative was launched by the Philippines on July 23, 2019, taking aim at the country’s extreme hazard exposure. Facing continuous threats from typhoons, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landsides, and emergent...
Jul 16, 2019
The Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), ASEAN Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states are coming together to build disaster resilience throughout the region. The new program is far-reaching and...
Jun 28, 2019
Following several consecutive years of serious hurricane impacts, The Bahamas launched an aggressive new program on June 26, 2019 to research disaster risk, preparedness, and climate change in partnership with Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)—a University of Hawaiʻi...
