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Disasters: The Differing Response to the Australian and Pakistan Floods -... - StumbleUpon - 2 views

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A Tale of Two Floods Shows the Disaster Gap Between Rich and Poor Pakistan and Australia

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BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Disaster risk increasing, says UN - 2 views

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The risk of disaster worldwide is increasing, says a new UN report.

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Tectonic plates puzzle

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Japan's Biggest Earthquakes | Earthquake Facts & Pictures, Japan Map, Tohoku Quake, Aft... - 4 views

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Living with Drought - 2 views

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Especially for Paloma

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BBC News - Japan sea sediments tell of past 'Tohoku quakes' - 2 views

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Japan sea sediments tell of past 'Tohoku quakes'

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Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters | GFDRR - 4 views

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Hurricanes cleaned up lead-laden New Orleans - environment - 19 May 2010 - New Scientist - 2 views

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A positive consequence!

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Africa and it's spliting headache - 2 views

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Cool article on the 60 km rift that appeared overnight

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Crazy Tsunami Maps From NOAA - And You Thought the Recent Chile Earthquake Was Bad... :... - 4 views

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BBC News - Europe's future lies under Africa, scientists suggest - 2 views

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Europe sinking under Africa - A new subduction event!

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China releases earthquake death toll of children | World news | The Guardian - 2 views

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Children as a vulnerable sector of the population.

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World Development book case study: famine in the Horn of Africa, August 2011 -- New Int... - 3 views

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Dave's Landslide Blog: The ten most important "natural" disasters of the last ten years - 1 views

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I good list from which to choose case studies.

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BRICs and N11 countries top Maplecroft's natural disaster risk ranking - France, Italy,... - 1 views

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BRICs and N11 countries top Maplecroft's natural disaster risk ranking - France, Italy, USA at "high risk"

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Open letter re Predicting L'Aquila - 1 views

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Years of research worldwide have shown that there is currently no scientifically accepted method for short-term earthquake prediction that can reliably be used by Civil Protection authorities for rapid and effective emergency actions.

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Drought | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 2 views

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Drought information from the Guradian website

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France developing 'culture of risk prevention' - UNISDR - 1 views

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Nice article on risk reduction in France

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Exploring Earth Investigations - 1 views

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[Submitted by Heather de Lagran]

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2010: The Year in Environmental Disasters (Slideshow) : TreeHugger - 3 views

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