President Obama has made a major disaster declaration for the State of West Virginia area affected by severe storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides beginning on June 22nd 2016.
Storms that battered Australia's east coast recently are a harbinger of things to come and a stark reminder of the need for a national effort to monitor the growing threat from climate change, University of New South Wales (UNSW) coastal researchers warn.
The US State Department has released ‘Country Reports On Terrorism 2015’ which summarises terrorist activity around the world and looks at how the terror risk is developing.
The US Department of Homeland Security has published a new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin which describes the government’s current terrorism risk assessment.
The Bulletin states that DHS is ‘particularly concerned about homegrown violent extremists
FEMA has released its annual National Preparedness Report which aims to provide US stakeholders with ‘practical insights into preparedness to support decisions about program priorities, resource allocations, and community actions’.
On May 28th, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a loan agreement with the Government of the Republic of El Salvador to provide a Japanese ODA loan of up to five billion yen for natural disaster recovery.
Impact Forecasting has published the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide during May 2016.
Companies that fail to plan for business scenarios in a low-carbon economy risk decline or even bankruptcy, according to a submission to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting that the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1st through to November 30th, will most likely be near-normal, but warns that forecast uncertainty in the climate signals that influence the formation of Atlantic storms make predicting this season particularly difficult.
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