Every year, disasters kill an average of 60,000 people, affect 200 million and cause US$150 billion in damage. To combat these…
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Drones are useful, and are helping in the recovery after the deadly Alabama tornadoes, but most require individual pilots, who fly the unmanned aircraft by remote control. That limits how quickly rescuers can view an entire affected area, and can delay actual aid from reaching victims.
Social media was recently credited with reducing the number of casualties caused by air strikes in the Syrian civil war.…
We will remember 2017 as an appalling year for natural disasters. The US has endured its most expensive hurricane season, amounting to…
With floodwaters at four feet and rising, a family in Houston, Texas abandoned their possessions and scrambled to their roof during…
Now that so many people use social media – Facebook claims more than 1.5 billion users – it makes an…