Update

2007 saw a marked increase in the number of floods compared with the average of the last seven years...according to figures released by CRED...

"This is why we should...respond to the coming crisis and further develop disaster preparedness activities,” said Peter Rees, Head of the International Federation Operations Support Department....

Tim Radford, member of the former UK committee for the international decade of natural disaster reduction comments on the global impact of environmental catastrophe...

"West Sumatra is a supermarket for disasters, earthquakes and tsunamis," Gamawan Fauzi, governor of the province, said as he opened a two-day National Exhibition of Disaster Preparedness in Padang, the capital city, in December.

Exploring how 'the power of conventional and new media can be harnessed to create more disaster resilient communities'...

Remembering the lives lost in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a tsunami drill and test of the Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning Systems were held on 26 December 2007...

Three years on from the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers and staff are working with communities along the road to recovery...

Red Cross Red Crescent and IRI partnership set to address urgent "need to incorporate climate information into disaster-risk reduction and decision making"...

Following the 30th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the International Federation is calling for a decision to be taken to prioritize climate risk reduction...

A simple early warning system that used local volunteers shouting through megaphones to warn people about the impending cyclone saved thousands of lives when Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh last week...