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Crisis Response Journal and Major Events International (MEI) announce new partnership for 2018
CRJ is pleased to announce that this partnership will aim to bring commercial companies, host organi...

Climate change could force more than one million to migrate within countries by 2050
The worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see mo...

CRJ at ISNR Abu Dhabi 2018
The CRJ Team have just returned from participating at the ISNR Abu Dhabi 2018 event. T...

Two new Advisory Panel Members for CRJ
CRJ is pleased to welcome Dr David Rubens and Matt Minshall to its Editorial Advisory Panel. Dr Rube...

Free data recovery kit for victims of GandCrab ransomware
Europol says that as of today, a new decryption tool for victims of the GandCrab ransomware is avail...

Most British adults concerned about security of their data held by public sector organisations
From May 25, 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is enforceable, after a two-yea...

UK Government and GSMA launch Mobile for Humanitarian Innovation initiative
Entrepreneurs will explore how to use mobile technology, such as smartphones that give access to aff...

Are bots a danger for political election campaigns? Study on Japanese elections in 2014
Autonomous computer programmes – known as bots – are used to trawl the Internet, for exa...

WHO’s 2018 annual review of priority diseases list
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a tool for determining which diseases and pathogen...

Climate change an ‘Existential threat’ as 2017 among three warmest years on record
UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Robert Glasser, has descr...

Business interruption and cyber incidents dominate risk landscape for companies in 2018
Businesses worry about emerging risks and liabilities arising from new technologies. They take aim a...

Davos: Global fund to end modern slavery
Speaking at a press conference during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Uni...

Tens of thousands evacuated as volcano erupts the Philippines
Lava fountains from the Mount Mayon volcano spewing 500 metres into the sky, along with ash plumes t...

Tsunami exercise in Caribbean
Caribe Wave 18 is scheduled to take place this March. The annual exercise, organised by the Int...

iOS 11.3 will support Advanced Mobile Location
Apple has announced that the iPhone’s next update, iOS 11.3 will support Advanced Mobile Locat...

Deadly mudslides follow wildfires in Southern California
USA: Seventeen people are confirmed dead in Southern California after heavy rains triggered flooding...

Natural hazards: Working for a resilient power grid in Europe
Electricity is the backbone of European society. When a natural disaster hits the power grid, recove...

UK scientists to help prevent the global spread of new diseases
A ground-breaking new research hub has been established by UK scientists to help halt future outbrea...