Emergency
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Facebook creates ‘Community Help’ feature for disaster assistance
Facebook plans to add a feature on Wednesday to make it easier for people affected by disasters to find each…
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Thirty-one reported injured after tornadoes pummel Louisiana
Some 31 people were reported injured after six tornadoes tore through New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana, pounding across…
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Landslides
Keep up to date with your local weather so to know when to expect heavy rainfalls that may cause landslides.
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Dozens killed as heavy snow blankets parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan
The snow wreaked havoc on major roads in Afghanistan, including the Kabul-Kandahar Highway, where police and soldiers had to rescue…
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PNG expecting a visit from YWAM’s medical ship ‘Ruach’
Image: YWAM Ships Newcastle Papua New Guinea will be expecting a medical ship along its coasts soon after the vessel…
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Climate Change and Development Authority: Building community resilience in PNG
Building community resilience is now an important task in terms of the ever so common talks of ‘climate change’ effects.…
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Building Resilience to Climate Change in Papua New Guinea
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today between the Climate Change & Development Authority, and the Autonomous Bougainville Government. The…
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PNG’s food crisis among unreported humanitarian disasters of 2016
The effects of the El Nino affected many communities causing droughts and frosts in what was stated as the worst…
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Powerful quake strikes off PNG, initial tsunami alert wound back
Image source: Follow Green Living By Harry Pearl SYDNEY (Reuters) – An 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea…
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Chile declares state of emergency due to massive wildfires
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile declared a state of emergency on Friday as more than a dozen wildfires that have scorched…
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