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This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows Kazakhstan’s Alakol Lake on which large chunks of broken ice float in 5 April, 2016. Climate change threatens to disappear more than one third of Central Asia’s glaciers raising the disaster risk for vulnerable communities. Image: ESA.
28 Jan 2019
World Bank project receives new funding for disaster risk reduction in Central Asia
The CCSTEAP organizes several courses and programmes in the upcoming academic year. Image: CSSTEAP.
28 Jan 2019
24th postgraduate programme in remote sensing and geographic system commences this summer at CSSTEAP
The Japanese coastal town of Otsuchi few days after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Image: Al Jazeera/Flickr.
25 Jan 2019
Japan prepares to test early warning system using Michibiki satellites
Image of the tailings dam flood on 30 January acquired by Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8. Image: NASA.
25 Jan 2019
International Charter activated for dam collapse in Brazil
Mission team and counterparts during the Institutional Strengthening Mission to Nepal in December 2018.
25 Jan 2019
UN-SPIDER carries out Institutional Strengthening Mission to Nepal
African farmers harvesting the crop in South Sudan. Image: FAO/South Sudan.
23 Jan 2019
Satellite data key part of early warning system for plant pest infestations
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured false-color images of the State of Rio Grande Du Sul in 2007 Image: NASA
14 Jan 2019
International Charter activated for floods in Brazil
Image: Group on Earth Observations.
14 Jan 2019
Group on Earth Observations and Amazon Web Services open applications for access to cloud computing programme
In September 2018, an earthquake and tsunami hit the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, leaving thousands dead and injured. Image: European Union 2018 / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
24 Dec 2018
UNOOSA requests activation of International Charter for tsunami in Indonesia
Screenshot of the Collect Earth Online tool.
17 Dec 2018
FAO and NASA launch Collect Earth Online tool to track landscapes, land-use, disasters

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