FEMA has announced the agency is establishing a new university called National Disaster & Emergency Management University (NDEMU) to help train emergency managers to keep pace with the rapidly ...

To build capacity in green disaster risk management and response, WWF-Pacific staff and partners, recently underwent a three day ‘Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit’(GRRT) training in Suva. To ...

Africa experiences a variety of natural disasters with floods and droughts documented as the most prevalent and impactful. Other significant hazards include landslides, storms, earthquakes, volcanic ...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation (ETC) has announced that open grant opportunities are available to assist emergency response organizations in obtaining ETC's Advanced Disaster Management Simulator ...

PESHAWAR, Sept 7: University of Peshawar Vice-chancellor Dr Azmat Hayat Khan has said that seeing the growing need for trained and skilled manpower at times of calamities, disaster preparedness and ...

A new IAEA research project will investigate how artificial intelligence can be used to strengthen non-destructive testing techniques used in disaster response. The project aims to enable faster, ...

In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - One local emergency management team is reaching out to the community to make sure they know what to do in an emergency. Woodbury County Emergency Management held ‘Disaster Survival ...

Doha, Qatar: Under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, and with the sponsorship of Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A district-level training programme for NSS volunteers commenced at the Maria Rani Centre, Sreekaryam, on Monday. Inaugurating the session, MLA Kadakampally Surendran praised the ...