Mount Ruang erupted
Mount Ruang erupted on 18 April.
What are the impacts on tourism?
How did the eruption affect Singapore?
How did the government manage the disaster risks?
Why was there a fear of a tsunami from the volcanic eruption?
Flooding in Dubai, UAE
One-hundred millimeters (nearly 4 inches) of rain fell over the course of just 12 hours on 16 April, according to weather observations at the airport – around what Dubai usually records in an entire year according to United Nations data.
How does climate change cause the flood?
What are the impacts of the flood?
How would tourism be affected?
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/17/weather/dubai-rain-flooding-climate-wednesday-intl/index.html
Overtourism in Bali
Why does Bali attract tourists?
What are the impacts of overtourism in Bali?
How can tourism development in Bali be made more sustainable?
Which stage of Butler's tourist destination development model do you think Bali is at?
Flooding in Australia
What caused the flooding?
Where are the places affected by the flood?
How does the flood affect the people?
Flooding in Russia
Where are the places affected by the flood?
How does the flood affect the people?
Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit Taiwan
Taiwan was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on 3rd April 2024.
When did the earthquake occur?
Where are the areas affected?
Why is the damage greatest at Hualien?
What are the impacts of the earthquake?
https://www.ft.com/content/88c6df93-b657-4917-a847-bd77cb02ccdc
How will the earthquake impact on tourism?
In a notice on its website, the park said some tourists were injured on its trails, which had been damaged to different degrees by the quake and continued to be hit by tremors.
Since the quake struck, more than 25 tremors (aftershocks) measuring at least 4.5-magnitude have been detected within 50km of Hualien City, according to the US Geological Survey.
During the park’s closure, roads and trails will be repaired and the safety of the area will be assessed.
Disaster management - search and rescue
There were more than 600 aftershocks, with magnitude as high as 5.4 on 4 April at 6.01pm. The map below shows the intensity of the aftershock at the various regions in Taiwan.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/live-72-magnitude-earthquake-hits-taiwan
Update 7 April
How does aftershocks affect search and rescue？
What are the impacts of earthquakes on tourism?
Search and rescue with sniffer dogs
The earthquake is the strongest since 1999. Look at the 7.6 earthquake which hit Taiwan in 1999.
What type of plate boundary is Taiwan located at?
Why does plate movement results in earthquake?
Updated 13 April
Death toll 16 with 2 Singaporeans still missing
Restoration of Taroko will cost NT 1 billion
Google AI project against Climate Change
Amazing how technology such as Google AI projects can help in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
How does technology help to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
Land
1. AnthroKrishi, utilises AI and satellite imagery to map critical information about individual farms, aiding in informed decisions around crop planting, optimising crop yields and resource usage.
2. Google's global hydrological AI model predicts floods up to 7 days in advance, even in data-scarce and vulnerable regions, helping to save countless lives.
3. Project Green Light leverage on AI to optimise traffic lights, reducing stops and emissions at intersections by up to 30% and 10%, respectively.
4. Google's AI-based tools provide real-time mapping and fire spread modelling, aiding communities in staying safe and firefighters in battling wildfires more effectively.
Sea
1. Kelp mapping Australia's giant kelp forests to aid in conservation efforts
2. Calling in Corals, a citizen science project harnessing AI to analyse underwater audio recordings to better understand and preserve coral reef ecosystems.
3. Blue Carbon project applies AI to measure the carbon-storing capacity of seagrass ecosystems
Air
1. Contrail forecast maps using Google's AI, pilots can choose routes that minimise contrail formation, reducing carbon emissions.
2. MethaneSAT use satellite data and Google AI to identify and track methane emissions.
3. Solar API uses Google's AI to help businesses estimate rooftop solar energy potential, in adopting solar energy and reducing their carbon footprint.
Drought in Vietnam March 2024
What caused the drought?
Where are the areas affected?
How does this affect people?
Heatwave in Malaysia
A total of eight localities in Peninsular Malaysia are now under Level 2 heatwave where daily maximum temperature can go up to between 37 degrees Celcius and 40 degrees Celcius for three days consecutively.
Where are the areas affected by the heatwave?
Why do you think these areas are more affected by heatwave?
What are the impacts of heatwave?
How can the people adapt to the heatwave?
Extreme weather in Singapore 2023
What is extreme weather?
Why is there an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather?
How does Singapore adapt to climate change
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Extreme weather recorded worldwide as well
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