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Tens of thousands of Fijians homeless after cyclone: disaster agency
2016-02-25 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Tens of thousands of Fijians remain homeless and living in evacuation shelters in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone at the weekend, officials said on Thursday, as aid began trickling in to the outer reaches of the South Pacific archipelago. The death toll from Cyclone Winston, the worst storm ever recorded in the southern hemisphere, remained at 42 but officials at Fiji's National Disaster Management Office fear that figure will rise. Officials from the disaster agency estimate that 35,000...
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Seven charged over Samarco dam disaster
2016-02-23 21:29:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Brazilian authorities have charged the president of mining company Samarco and six others with homicide for the mining disaster that killed 19 people last November.
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FEMA: President Declares Disaster for State of Oregon
2016-02-18 16:24:30| PortlandOnline
Press release issued February 18, 2016.
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South Africa won't declare national disaster over drought
2016-02-07 12:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: South Africa will not declare a national disaster in response to its worst drought in a century as it hopes ample late rains will continue to improve the situation, deputy minister of agriculture Bheki Cele said on Sunday. "For some reason God has been kind and late rains did come, and we think the 6 million tonnes (of maize) we were looking to import - we have downgraded that to four," he told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a conference in Dubai. The country's largest grain producer...
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Gorman student helps brainstorm wireless mesh network for disaster survivors
2016-02-07 12:23:05| Wireless - Topix.net
Katelyn Dunn is shown at the Innevation Center at 6795 S. Edmond St. in Las Vegas on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. The local high school senior is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Disaster Mesh, a company that recently was awarded $250,000 in startup funds from Verizon for an air-deployable Wi-Fi network to give instant connectivity for use in disaster zones.
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