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Cambodia is considered one of the most hazard-prone countries in South-East Asia. The major disasters faced by the country are, in order of prevalence...
The world celebrated the first year of the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030(SFDRR) on 18 March 2016 with the social media campaig...
"Our safety does not rest in the hands of one person or government agency alone. It rests in our very hands as we put them together on the concerted e...
This year's theme for the observance of July as the National Disaster Consciousness Month is "Kahandaan at Pagtugon sa Sakuna, Tungkulin ng Bawat Isa"...
As the year draws to end, the Philippines was battered by two strong typhoons which wreck havoc in its path. Super Typhoon Lawin in October affected t...
Ang konsepto ng proyektong Patnubay sa Weder Forkasting ay bunga ng panawagan ng Pangulong Benigno Aquino 3 pagkaraang manalanta ang bagyong Yolanda a...

Soil Moisture Drought in China, 1950–2006

Wang, A.Lettenmaier, D. P.Sheffield, J.
Four physically based land surface hydrology models driven by a common observation-based 3-hourly meteorological dataset were used to simulate soil mo...

Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

Greve, P.Orlowsky, B.Mueller, B.Sheffield, J.Reichstein, M.Seneviratne, S. I.
Changes in the hydrological conditions of the land surface have substantial impacts on society1, 2. Yet assessments of observed continental dryness tr...
OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), has launched the second edition of its flagship publication "Disaster Response in Asia and the P...

Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe

Vicente-Serrano, S. M.Lopez-Moreno, J.Begueria, S.Lorenzo-Lacruz, J.ETC
We use high quality climate data from ground meteorological stations in the Iberian Peninsula (IP) and robust drought indices to con?rm that drought s...

Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium

Cook, E.R.Anchukaitis, K.J.Buckley, B.M.D’Arrigo, R.D.Jacoby, G.C.Wright, W.E.
The Asian monsoon system affects more than half of humanity worldwide, yet the dynamical processes that govern its complex spatiotemporal variability ...
The nature and frequency of drought in subhumid regions, its impact on farmers' livelihoods, farmers' drought-coping strategies, and the welfare impli...