On Friday night San Francisco’s Transit System “Muni” was attacked from a hacker using ransomware and trying to receive $73,000 in ...
New Zealand’s resilience challenges from earthquakes
New Zealand is regularly hit by earthquakes and the consequent damages are not just environmental and human. Also damages in infrastructure can mean a loss ...
A disaster and climate strategy for sub-Saharan Africa
Extreme weather is occuring more frequent around the world due to climate change. As a response to that, the World Bank and the Global Facility for ...
Bullet train technology for earthquake resilience
Scientists around the world are looking for ways to reduce infrastructural damage that earthquakes cause. One of the approaches draws on mobility ...
Paris extends its resilience ambitions
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, and Patrick Ollier, President of Paris Métropole, announced a collaboration on a shared approach to resilience at the Global ...
Burlington is the first American all-renewable-energy city
The city of Burlington, Vermont, has 42,000 residents who are all provided with power that comes from hydroelectric, a plant, four wind turbines and a ...
Protection of fish stocks as means for resilience
The decline of fish stocks along the coasts of African countries is threatful for many people who make a living from fishing. The decline of fish stocks, ...
Risk of buildings to collapse after earthquake hit New Zealand
After an earthquake stroke Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, buildings have been evacuated due to the risk of collapsing. Engineers are inspecting ...
Renewables 2016 Global Status Report
The report gives an annual overview of the state of renewable energy and explicates why renewables are now firmly established as competitive, mainstream ...
Resilience for African countries by meteorological means
In the wake of climate change and consequentially more frequent extreme weather, countries strive to become more resilient. The initiative of the World ...
