Page 37 - Resilience Program News Today

Date Time NIST Community Resilience and Center of Excellence Researchers NIST Community Resilience Program researchers and researchers at the Community Resilience Center of Excellence will be participating in the upcoming Natural Hazards Workshop 2021 and the following Researchers Meeting. The 46th Annual Natural Hazards Workshop will focus on the theme “The Hazards and Disaster Workforce: Preparing to Meet 21st Century Challenges”. The Workshop will take place virtually July 11 – July 14...

Children slept over an hour more with mindfulness training, study finds By Sandee LaMotte, CNN enablePagination: false FILE PHOTO (CNN) — Elementary schoolchildren who took mindfulness training two times a week for two years slept an average of 74 extra minutes a night, a new study found. That boost in total sleep time included an additional 24 minutes of rapid eye movement (REM), the dream stage of sleep when memories are consolidated and stored. "The improvement in the rapid eye movement s...

WFP Takes Diverse Approach Towards Challenges Hindering Development All these are being done in an effort to assist Malawi government achieve the sustainable development goals - pic by Moses Masiye Food insecurity, poverty, high illiteracy levels and malnutrition are some of the main challenges hindering development of Malawi as a country. The sick, the hungry, the illiterate and those nursing natural disasters due to climate change fail to contribute efficiently towards the c...

Visakhapatnam: The Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) has decided to leverage the programme run by United Nation Development Programme (UNDP), in association with the Government of India, to take up Covid-19 prevention and control measures in the city. GVMC will conduct decentralised activities at the ward level involving ward corporators, secretariats, the community and other stakeholders under the initiative. GVMC mayor G Hari Venkata Kumari has requested corporators to get i...

While celebrating the 218 th anniversary of the Haitian Flag, May 18, 2021, civil society organizations within the country and in the US planned joint protests in opposition to what they call the unconstitutional and illegal referendum on the constitution and elections being organized and promoted by President Jovenel Moïse. The protests are also aimed to highlight the hypocrisy of the international community that still supports Mr. Moïse’s autocratic rule. The organizers hope to bring the ...

Sursa foto: Inquam Photos/ Octav Ganea Prime Minister Florin Citu announced that he will have a meeting at the Victoria Palace on Thursday with Social Democratic Party (PSD) representatives on the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), agerpres reports. He added that also on other topics he addressed invitations to dialogue to PSD representatives, but they did not respond. "Tomorrow at 15:00 I will have a meeting with the Government with some PSD representatives on exactly this topic. I ...

The science behind why people have missed traveling By Jon Marcus Globe Correspondent,Updated May 13, 2021, 10:00 a.m. Email to a Friend There’s science behind why people missed travel so much and are returning to it so eagerly.aanbetta - stock.adobe.com Adam Johnson used part of his enforced free time over the last year to scroll wistfully through photos and social media posts about his pre-pandemic travels, join a Boston travel Meetup group, and dream about future trips. The son of schoo...

8:18 CAT | 12 May 2021 0 Comments Share Map figures during cyclone Idai, which severely impacted Mozambique’s central provinces in March 2019; satellite image from NOAA (left) and numerical forecasts for surface wind and ocean waves (right). Deltares is a major partner in a winning consortium led by Consultec, one of the leading engineering firms in Mozambique. The consortium was selected by the Mozambique National Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) to strengthen...

Dr. Victor G. Carrión, professor of child and adolescent psychology at Stanford University, will discuss the impact of traumatic stress on mental health, including the COVID-19 pandemic and recent political and social conflicts, during a free online seminar on Tuesday, May 11. The webinar is sponsored by the Pleasanton-based Alan Hu Foundation, created by Xiaofang Chen and Chih-Ching Hu in memory of their son, who committed suicide in 2018 at the age of 15, after struggling with mental illne...

Cyclone Seroja child survivors in Lembata begin to recover Format 5 May 2021 A month has passed since the flash flood and landslide that was caused by Cyclone Seroja hit the East Nusa Tenggara Province, which has also hit the Lembata District. After undergoing an emergency phase, the Lembata district has now entered the recovery phase, as announced by the local government in late April. Following this, Yayasan Plan International Indonesia (Plan Indonesia), a humanitarian organisation that has b...