History & Culture
When it comes to preparing for disaster there are 4 distinct types of people. Which one are you?
Research out today shows when it comes to getting ready for disasters, there are four types of people.
Tag: natural disaster
News
How you can help wildlife during floods
If you find disoriented or wet wildlife wandering your area or your home, here’s what you can do.
News
Cyclone Pam one of the worst-ever Pacific disasters
Vanuatu is facing the worst natural disaster in the Pacific in recent memory, in the wake of Category 5 Cyclone Pam
Science & Environment
Bushfires in Western Australia February 2015
Western Australia’s bushfires have razed more than 85,000 hectares of the state’s south-west
Science & Environment
Satellite image of Adelaide fires
The huge bushfires around Adelaide could be seen from space
History & Culture
Cyclone Tracy: Images of Christmas Day, 40 years ago
It wasn’t until the dark of midnight, on Christmas day, 25 December 1974, that Cyclone Tracy really began to make an impact. In the seven hours it took the cyclone to pass over Darwin, it destroyed roughly 70 per cent of the small capital city. In all, 71 people were killed in the chaos, 13 of them lost at sea. A bill of $500-600 million dollars also racked up ($2.5-3 billion today), as planes, cars, power lines and structures were whipped across streets, destroying buildings and infrastructure. But there were sparks of hope amid the destruction. The then-tiny town of Alice Springs raised $100,000 (~$700,000 today) with 24 hours of the tragedy.
On This Day
On this day: Ash Wednesday bushfires
It’s the anniversary of the huge 1983 Victorian bushfires, and the psychological impact is still being felt.
Science & Environment
The 10 most destructive tsunamis in history
Here are the ten biggest tsunamis in recorded history, ranked by the devastation they wrought.