Et halvt år efter jordskælvet i Haiti har 1,9 millioner mennesker fået midlertidig husly, tusindvis af patienter er blevet behandlet,…
Experts say suggestions that climate change could trigger more volcanoes and earthquakes are speculative, but there is enough evidence to…
China’s tragic magnitude 6.9 earthquake on April 13 and the recent devastating earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, Mexico, and elsewhere have…
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In addition to smashing buildings and killing more than 200,000 people, Haiti’s devastating 12 January earthquake produced two…
Urgent Action Still Needed on Safe Camp Sites for Those Made Homeless by Quake
The United Nations Security Council should make…
Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M…
The first heavy rains since a devastating earthquake four weeks ago brought new misery to Haitians Thursday with hundreds of…
Operational meteorological services are essential to preventing further disasters in Haiti. The country now faces the approaching rainy season in…
Oxfam health advisor Helen Hawkings gives us an insight into her experiences overseeing new water and sanitation projects in a…
Unaccompanied children in Haiti, including orphans and those sent by their parents to live with more affluent relatives or strangers,…
(IRIN) – Earthquakes killed more people in the last 10 years than any other natural hazard, said new figures released…
A statistical study by a specialist group at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and the University of Southern California showed…
Haitians Wednesday faced a desperate lack of food and shelter more than two weeks after a deadly quake, as the…
PASADENA, Calif. – In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science…
Government plans to relocate hundreds of thousands of Haitians out of makeshift camps to new temporary shelters have been greeted…
The Haitian government estimates at least 500,000 need shelter after the 12 January earthquake devastated the city, but the challenge…
Geoscientists will collect crucial data for future hazard assessment
A team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is returning to…
In the aftermath of the Jan. 12 earthquake that struck Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology are…
PORT-AU-PRINCE , 24 January 2010 (IRIN) – More than 100 people were pressed against the iron gates of the mayor’s…
More than 150,000 people have been confirmed dead in the Port-au-Prince area alone following Haiti’s devastating earthquake, the country’s communications…
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies work overview page
In the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) focused on emergency…
The head of the IMF has called for a major multilateral aid plan to rebuild the shattered Caribbean island of…
Situation in Port-au-Prince
The strong aftershock that struck Haiti yesterday a few kilometres south-west of Port-au-Prince rattled already exhausted earthquake victims.…
Photo: American Red Cross
SANTO DOMINGO/PORT-AU-PRINCE, 21 January 2010 (IRIN) – Within one week of the earthquake that drove tens of…
United Nations-supported relief efforts to reach the countless victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake are expanding to areas away from Port-au-Prince,…
When a disaster strikes, humanitarian agencies like WFP need information more than anything else. They need a clear picture of…
The U.S. Navy hospital ship, USNS COMFORT (T-AH 20), arrived off the coast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti Jan. 20 and began…
Amid the teaming hordes of quake survivors, women bathed next to mounds of refuse and children relieved themselves on the…
WFP is streaming humanitarian assistance into Haiti, opening up air, sea and land corridors, and rehabilitating emergency telecoms systems for…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 20 January 2010 (IRIN) – Joanne, 18, a high-school student, is living in a makeshift camp on a football…
Photos from the streets of Port-au-Prince.
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Already at high risk for malaria, Haiti faces an even greater likelihood that the disease will spread after the January…
Food distributions; incoming food supplies; reconnaissance flights; logistical operations; emergency telecommunications.
Learn about the most recent developments in WFP’s operations in…
In the week since the earthquake struck Haiti, more than 250,000 ready-to-eat food rations have been distributed by the United…
The crew of a US aircraft carrier, which is stationed off the coast of Haiti, is working to supply victims…
Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2010
The international community fears the death toll from the earthquake in Haiti could be as high…
When the immediate crisis passes, how can we ensure that Haiti becomes a functioning nation? Eight experts give their prescriptions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/opinion/17rebuildhaiti.html?hp
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View satellite photos from GeoEye that show Port-au-Prince before and after the Jan. 12 earthquake. The after photograph was taken…
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Rescue teams and emergency supplies are slowly getting on the ground in Haiti as the Caribbean nation begins burying…
