NASA helps Vietnam do high-tech agriculture

NASA’s space satellites monitor images from the granary in An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta to provide an analysis of production situation, contribute to solving the problems related to global food security

Situation of hailstones accompanied by strong whirlwind in the northern mountainous provinces

On April 3rd, 2016, in the locality of Ham Yen district, Chiem Hoa district (Tuyen Quang), Quan Ba, Meo Vac and Yen Minh district (Ha Giang), Luc Yen district (Yen Bai) occurred hailstones, accompanied by strong whirlwind, brought to damage to people, housing and agricultural production.

French public learns life-saving skills

THOIRY, France, 2 March 2016 – Launched by France in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks, a nationwide programme has helped the public learn critical medical skills that can save lives in an emergency or a disaster.

UN Secretary-General's message on the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

UN Secretary-General's message on the fifth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

It's time to switch from managing disasters to reducing risk

I am proud to celebrate the first anniversary of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction which was adopted on March 18, 2015 at a major U.N. conference in Japan.

New recommeneded practice on drought monitoring published

UN-SPIDER published a new recommended practice in its Knowledge Portal outlining detailed step-by-step procedures to support drought monitoring.

Successful launch of the Sentinel-3A satellite for Europe’s Copernicus Environment Programme

On 16 February 2016, the Sentinel-3A satellite was successfully launched from Plesetsk, Russia.

Typhoons in the Philippines: A journey to disaster resilience

“All of the houses in my village were destroyed in a snap,” says Analita Garcela, the captain of the upland village of Cambucao in Tabon Tabon, Leyte – one of the communities hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

New recommeneded practice on drought monitoring published

Disaster lessons from the hottest year on record

Disasters don’t recognise borders or calendar years. Nonetheless one would expect to learn something of value to disaster risk reduction from newly available data on disasters in 2015 which was the hottest year on record since pre-industrial times.