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Policies and activities in the education sector to protect students and educators from disasters impacts, ensure continuity of education through all expected hazards and strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education.

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Heat waves and how they impact children

Heat stress caused by extreme temperatures is putting more children at risk each year.
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
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Educational materials

Disaster risk reduction terminology - Translations in Kono, Krio, Limba, Mende and Themne

This document contains the translations of the disaster risk reduction terminology in Kono, Krio, Limba, Mende, and Themne. These are the top five local languages in Sierra Leone.
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Educational materials

Primary school disaster risk reduction teaching guidelines for Sierra Leone

The SDRRTG manual is designed to guide school heads, teachers, learners and by extension communities to ensure school safety, particularly in facilitating the protection of children against disasters.
School in Nepal
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How education systems respond to extreme climate and environmental events

With ever increasing events of high heat and pollution across the Asian region, prompting school closures more frequently than before, education stakeholders must reconsider the suite of available policies.
Center for Global Development
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How a board game can help vulnerable communities prepare for catastrophic wildfires

Wildfire season is here, with several blazes already burning across the country. Climate change is increasing their frequency and intensity, and experts are struggling to prepare vulnerable communities. But some are trying a new approach - a board game.
NPR
Locusts
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Integrating Virtual Reality technology in locust survey for sustainable locust control and management

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with Georgia State University, is developing a novel training approach using Virtual Reality (VR) to teach teams about locust surveys and controls during breeding and invasion.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
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Schools that never needed AC are now overheating. Fixes will cost billions.

As heat waves creep north, they are baking schools that previously did not need air conditioning. Fixing the problem will be neither cheap, nor easy.
Washington Post, the
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Hell or high water: Filipino schools lashed by climate extremes

Schools were closed for several days as temperatures soared to over 40 degrees Celsius in April and May. Now they are due to reopen after the holidays in July, rather than August, as authorities rework the education calendar to adapt to extreme weather.
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