Sawdust Balls to Clean Marine Oil Spills

Last month, two cargo ships collided at Mumbai coast resulting in a oil spill from one of the ships. Few days ago,oil spillage happened at Chennai Kamarajar port due to crack in the oil tank of a ship. Long lasting disastrous impacts of such oil spill, due to collision of ships or other similar reasons,...
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Failing dam creates new crisis on Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Puerto Rico, with 10 deaths and an estimated US$ 30 billion loss, lies utterly devastated by its most powerful storm in a century. Hurricane Maria caused severe flooding, no electricity for 3.4 million inhabitants and structural damage to many homes. People are struggling with shortage of supplies and water rationing, communication issues, breakdown in flights,...
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Handling communications during a disaster

Typhoons have been dominating the news recently. A marketing and PR agency of Houston, affected severely by Typhoon Harvey, have following recommendation for their clients seeking guidance. “Don’t make this about you”. Messages of help should be tactful and respectful highlighting the chosen charity otherwise you will be seen as opportunistic. The charitable cause should...
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Mexico Earthquake, Strongest in a Century, Kills Dozens

An8.2 magnitude earthquake, strongest in a century, struck Mexico before midnight on 7th September 2017. Overall 61 people died in Southern Mexico, 31 of them in the worst hit provincial city of Jushttan De Zaragoza.Thousands of homes were destroyed along with the Main Hospital – forcing   Doctors  to tend to patients in an open lot...
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Hurricane Irma and its devastating effects

The region must adapt to climate change, not simply rebuild Hurricane Irma, the first Category 5 storm ever for many of the 13 island countries, bulldozed its way across the Eastern Caribbean at speeds up to 300KMH for 3 days,in early September. Severe destruction with entire settlements wiped off, followed  by food and water shortages...
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Hurricane Irma

Before US comes out of the shock of storm Harvey, hurricane Irma lashed the state Florida again on Sunday. The wind strength was 177 kmph which damaged about 10 lakh houses along with power cut. City Miami was striked badly by hurricane Irma. Post lashing parts of Caribbean, it headed to coast of Florida. Hurricane...
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Anant chaturdashi : Crowd Management

Disaster Management Volunteers (DMVs) of ‘Aniruddha’s Academy of Disaster Management’ assisting #police authorities in managing flow of devotees during Anant Chaturdashi Ganesh Visarjan in Mumbai and nearby areas.