Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Areas in Metro Manila at high risk during natural disasters may now be known through an accurate hazard map, a product of Australia’s high-resolution three-dimensional mapping technology, which had been turned over to the Philippine government recently. Australian...
Thursday, September 8th, 2011
Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has started work on multi-hazard vulnerability mapping of the country's entire coastline. The mapping effort aims to inform authorities of vulnerable areas so that they can adequately prepare...
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
The shipments of beef cows suspected of having been fed with radioactive rice straw to all the prefectures except Okinawa have underlined the radiation hazards caused by the disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1...
