Jakarta: Two separate landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Indonesia have killed at least nine people, including four geothermal workers, and left 17 others missing, officials said today. 
Every town in Myanmar is to have its own weather forecasts, says the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology. With help from the Norwegian government, the department will implement the three-year project starting this year.
MENLO PARK, Calif. — "Predicted population increases in this century can be expected to translate into more people dying from earthquakes. There will be more individual earthquakes with very large death tolls as well as more people dying during earthquakes than ever before, according to a newly published study led by U.S. Geological Survey engineering geologist Thomas L. Holzer."
Jakarta - As the frequency, severity and economic losses of disasters continue to increase across the globe, the United Nations' first-ever global champion for disaster risk reduction, Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono kicked-off a two-day global meeting in Jakarta on Tuesday by backing calls for hardwiring disaster management into the global development agenda.
A new study commissioned by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and carried out by the Copernicus Institute at Utrecht University assesses the potential impacts of climate change on human health in the Netherlands.