Climate change and environmental degradation are worsening the impacts of disasters on vulnerable people – making it vital that environmental and humanitarian organizations work more closely together, ...
Editor’s Note: Anita van Breda is Senior Director of Environment and Disaster Management at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), based in Washington, DC. She has 20 years of experience working to apply ...
ISWA manual shows that disasters and conflicts in West Asia generate vast amounts of hazardous and mixed waste that, if poorly managed, quickly become a second crisis threatening health, the ...
On February 26, 1852, the HMS Birkenhead struck a cluster of rocks off the coast of South Africa. With only a few lifeboats for the 638 people aboard, Captain Robert Salmond ordered the women and ...
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 ...
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A sudden pause in federal assistance is sowing disarray and outrage across the country, throwing into doubt a wide range of programs that help protect Americans from disasters, provide access to clean ...
Editor’s note: In the wake of the devastating floods that have swept through Texas—claiming lives, displacing thousands and overwhelming local infrastructure—the urgency of disaster preparedness has ...
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