In the past year, “there were 315 natural disaster events recorded with 11,804 deaths, over 68 million people affected, and US$131.7 billion in economic losses around the world.” This is according to ...

Space-based Information: The Global Fatal Landslide Database (GFLD) has been consistently collected and maintained since 2004. Systematic metadata search tools based in the English language are used ...

According to the latest issue of an annual disaster statistics report, floods were the deadliest type of disasters in 2019, followed by extreme temperature, while storms affected the highest number of ...

A new Earth observation instrument designed to monitor climate and environmental change in Eastern Africa has successfully been launched to the International Space Station (ISS). The Climate Camera ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) published its report "2021 Disasters in Numbers". In 2021, the Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT) recorded 432 disastrous events related ...

On December 2016, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed June 30 as the International Asteroid Day, to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard, as well as to inform the public ...

Forecasters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States (NOAA) at the Climate Prediction Center anticipate an above-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic basin for ...

The Colombian Geological Survey (previously INGEOMINAS) is attached to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, which is part of the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation (SNCTI ). It ...

The Viet Nam Disaster Management Authority (VDMA) acts as the Standing Office of the Central Committee for Natural Disaster Management. VDAM is a unit under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural ...

Established through the Disaster Preparedness and Relief Act of 1991, the Department of Disaster Management Affairs is the Government of Malawi’s agency responsible for coordinating and directing the ...

Sentinel-2 data from European Space Agency (ESA), is available free of charge and can be downloaded from the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, once the user is registered (Explore Data -> Copernicus ...

UN-SPIDER aims to bridge the gap between the various communities involved in using space-based information for disaster risk management and emergency response. These communities include satellite ...