A Lifeline for Earthquake Survivors in the Philippines - Operation Blessing
After a 6.9 earthquake, Operation Blessing is serving earthquake survivors in the Philippines with clean water, food, and supplies.| Operation Blessing
The governor of Balkh has ordered all provincial institutions to remain on high alert and to provide immediate assistance to those affected by the disaster. The post 12 dead, over 480 injured in northern Afghanistan earthquake first appeared on Ariana News | Afghanistan News.| Ariana News | Afghanistan News
Donate to hurricane victims On October 28, 2025, the island of Jamaica was struck by Hurricane Melissa, a historic and devastating storm. The category 5 hurricane made landfall with sustained winds of up to 185 mph, making Melissa the strongest storm to hit the island in modern history. Authorities reported life-threatening storm surge (up [...] The post How to Help Hurricane Melissa Victims appeared first on Mission Discovery.| Mission Discovery
Many, many moons ago, during the breezy period right out of schooling when I lived in Southern Louisiana, I had to evacuate from a hurricane or two. (“Breezy” takes on a new meaning.) Though I was indeed a New Orleans resident during the most ill-fated of hurricanes in anyone’s recent memory—Katrina—I coincidentally was out of ...Read more... The post Contraflow: a forced one-way street can promote safety or confusion. Context is key. appeared first on American Dirt..| American Dirt.
PHILIPPINES — When a powerful earthquake struck the Philippines, Rachel and her three children were thrown into a state of chaos. “My eldest daughter was shouting, ‘Ma! Help me!’” Rachel recalled. “My other daughter, Jean, was running and also crying for help. I told them to sit down, but I was panicking too.” Jean was injured Read More… The post Healing Begins After Earthquake in the Philippines appeared first on Operation Blessing.| Operation Blessing
After a 6.9 earthquake, Operation Blessing is serving earthquake survivors in the Philippines with clean water, food, and supplies.| Operation Blessing
Written by Meng Kit Tang. This article reflects on Taiwan’s remarkable civic response to the 2025 Hualien floods, where thousands of volunteers, faith groups, and ordinary citizens mobilised overnight. The essay ultimately suggests that Taiwan’s story offers lessons not just for its own politics, but also for neighbours and rivals alike: that true strength and attraction emerge not from control, but from authenticity. Continue reading| Taiwan Insight
The landscape architect “showed in a practical and poetic way how the landscape can be a vital infrastructure to urban resilience, integrating man to nature in a sustainable way.”| Global Voices
Writing this at the end of September 2024, it is shameful to think that Manipur has been in the throes of conflict for more than 17 months. For 17 months, people have been displaced, living in camps, unable to return to their homes, livelihoods or in the case of young people, education. Many roads are […]| The Standpoint
PLEASE DONATE! IT IS NOW THAT YOUR HELPING HAND IS NEEDED TO REBUILD THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE FLOOD.| ARCHITECTURE STUDENT'S CORNER
When California wildfires threatened their homes, emergency physicians faced personal disaster. Read their stories of loss and how the EM community stepped in to help.| ACEP Now
“Calm on the surface, paddling furiously underneath.” Back in 2009, when I wrote my first article on wildlife tunnels in an outer suburb of Boston, I figured this might be the first of many features about animal accommodations—slight modifications to the infrastructure that better integrate the human-built environment with the natural world so that animals ...Read more... The post Animal accommodations: in the Reflecting Pool, everything is (fiscally) ducky. appeared first on American...| American Dirt.
Today in 1955, torrential rains from Hurricane Diane — the second hurricane to hit Connecticut in five days — wreaked flood-borne death and devastation across the state. After Hu…| Today in Connecticut History
“There is a general agreement that the Y2K transition went more smoothly than any of us would have imagined. In fact, as noted in the week since the rollover, some people have suggested that Y2K as…| LibrarianShipwreck
A fast, enjoyable read with a few gut punches hidden throughout. Not so much about the moon turning into cheese as how lots of different people *react* to the moon turning into cheese.| Kelson Reviews Stuff
By Meg Wilcox The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed on Friday a plan to eliminate its science research arm in a move critics say will| The New Lede
The Karnah project has a long history of setbacks and delays. In the beginning, it was a 2 Mw small hydroelectric (SHEP) project commissioned in 1991 on Owari Nag near the actual line of control in…| SANDRP
This shows once again, that NHAI or the Ministry of Road Transport has no confidence inspiring system to firstly ensure that projects have adequate drainage component so that not only the road sust…| SANDRP
In scathing criticism of the government, the insider also said that for two decades Gujarat has NOT been releasing the annual figures of area irrigated in different taluka/s districts using Narmada…| SANDRP
On warm days, rails in direct sunshine can be as much as 20 degrees centigrade above air temperature. As rails are made out of steel, they expand as they heat … Continue reading →|
In October 28, 1995, an electrical failure led to a fire on one of the trains in Baku’s Metro. The electrical failure caused a fire in the fourth of five … Continue reading →|
On March 24, 2014, a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) passenger train overran the bumper at O’Hare subway station, injuring 34 people. The cause is under investigation. The front car of … Continue reading →|
A derailment is said to take place when a vehicle (for example a train) runs off its rails. This does not necessarily mean that it leaves its track. Although many … Continue reading →|
The 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster, also known as the Once Tragedy, occurred on 22 February 2012, when a train crashed at Once Station in the Balvanera neighbourhood of Buenos … Continue reading →|
The Santiago de Compostela rail disaster occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed … Continue reading →|
Location: Daegu, South Korea Fire Event: 18 February 2003 A subway train was set on fire with gasoline, destroying two trains and causing large casualties of 192 deaths and 148 injuries at … Continue reading →|
Classification of railway accidents, both in terms of cause and effect, is a valuable aid in studying rail (and other) accidents to help to prevent similar ones occurring in future. … Continue reading →|
The Kaprun disaster was a fire that occurred in an ascending railway car in the tunnel of the Gletscherbahn 2 railway in Kaprun, Austria, on 11 November 2000. The disaster … Continue reading →|
Picking up the pieces after a natural or man-made disaster can be difficult for all consumers. It can be particularly challenging for tenants and landlords. What happens to a lease…| Los Angeles County Department of Consumer & Business Affairs
The ‘cloudburst’ incidents have been reported from all geographical areas of the state spanning 8 districts throughout the season beginning with May 12 in Gharshu village of Kinnaur to September 26…| SANDRP
On Jan. 7, 2025, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared local emergencies because of the Palisades Fire, which is burning in the areas of Pacific Palisades and other communities in the western portion of Los Angeles County, and the Eaton Fire, which is burning in Altadena, Pasadena, and neighboring communities.| Consumer & Business
The following memorandum signed by 290 persons from Kalimpong, | Visions of Hell
A woman washes the money she recovered while scavenging for lost property in a flood affected area of Rangpo (Sikkim) on 06Oct2023 - photo credit Praveen| Visions of Hell
While we (Junkeri Studio with SaveTheHills) have featured this area as a part of numerous surveys of GLOF affected areas done in Oct2023, both of us visited the Krishnagram area of Teesta bazar again between 21-22July2024.| Visions of Hell
The problems faced by people along the Duhnoi River along Assam Meghalaya border are typical of the problems faced by millions all over the country, the manifestations and their intensity may be so…| SANDRP
This week there is some interesting news about a number of Urban rivers including Pune Rivers, Musi (Hyderabad), Chennai Rivers, Budha Dariya (Ludhiana), Gomti (Lucknow). All the news underlines so…| SANDRP
About 100 attendees of a quinceañera had to flee to the rooftops when flash flood waters swept into the Roswell Convention and Civic Center.| Source New Mexico
(Feature Image: File photo of Yettinahole Project. Source: Daijiworld) The Yettinahole project has seen protests and question marks right from the time when the project was proposed, none of them h…| SANDRP
In addition to posing safety threats to Prakasam barrage and downstream people, these incidents suggest that the sand mining rules are being clearly violated in the Andhra Pradesh. About 150 trucks…| SANDRP
Everyone makes mistakes, but some mistakes are much bigger than others. For these people their mix-ups weren’t just embarrassing, they were deadly.| Historic Mysteries
As the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) expresses its sympathies and condolences to the families of fatalities of those killed in the latest floodings in the Davao region, the farmers group s…| updates from the peasant movement of the Philippines
by Burç Köstem It has been nearly two months since February 6th, when two consecutive earthquakes of 7.8 and 7.7 magnitudes originating in the towns of Maraş and Antep took place. The earthquake has had a devastating effect across a large geographical area near the Turkish-Syrian border, that spans the historic lands of Kurdistan and| Uneven Earth - Where the ecological meets the political
Jacob Neiheisel (SUNY-Buffalo) and Paul A. Djupe (Denison University) The world is beset by demons; warfare in the spirit realm is unfolding in ways that resonate with the Book of Revelation presag…| Religion in Public
