In an advance for climate-informed disease early warning systems, a team of researchers, public health actors and ...

For example, the warning system in the current study logged missed instruction on a broad level but not whether absences were excused or unexcused nor underlying reasons, such as family vacation ...

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Early warning indicators have been developed in Chicago, by Elaine Allensworth and John Easton, and in Philadelphia, by Robert Balfanz and Ruth Curran Neild, as well as other cities.

The example shows that precise weather forecasts are important, but they are not enough to reduce storm damage. This applies not only to heavy rainfall but also to droughts and other extreme ...

But early warning systems do not exist in every part of the world. A quarter of the countries assessed in the 2011 Global Assessment Report for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that communities did ...

Can Twitter be used to detect pandemics before they take off? To find out, researchers at UCI and UCLA are sifting through millions of tweets (and other data) from the months leading up to COVID-19’s ...

Plans are afoot to equip eThekwini’s informal settlements with fire detectors to save lives. The rollout has started at ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has invited three men from Gilgit-Baltistan, hailed as heroes for saving hundreds of ...