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- Alert Earth!
 - Creating a grassroots alerting infrastructure for earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters by using the Internet, cell phones, and volunteers. - AlertNet
- Combines breaking stories from the Reuters news agency with communications services for relief organizations.
- Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh and West Bengal@
- BBC: Natural Disasters
- Features information on earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and hurricanes, floods and storms, droughts, and more.
- Bhopal Chemical Leak@
- Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters 1980-1999
- Comprehensive reports including data, images, and movies from the National Climatic Data Centre.
- Blackout History Project: 1977 Blackout
- Collection of personal accounts, articles, and documents about the 1977 power outage in New York City.
- CBS News Disaster Links
- Collection of web sites addressing natural and man-made disasters.
- Disaster Center
- Provides news and resources about a variety of catastrophes and response agencies.
- Disaster News Network
- News and information about U.S. disaster response and volunteer opportunities.
- Disaster Research Center
- Social science research devoted to the study of disasters. At The University of Delaware.
- Disaster Resources
- Provides information for educators and families on disaster preparedness and recovery. It includes information on current and recent disasters and links to agencies, organizations, and networks involved in disaster response, recovery, and research.
- DisasterHelp
- Homepage of the Disaster Management e-Government Initiative of U.S. government. Offers help resources and information to reduce the loss of life and property from various hazards including natural disasters and acts of terror.
- DisasterRelief.org
- Exchange information on natural and manmade disasters, worldwide.
- Dust Bowl@
- Emergency Net News Service
- News of and related links to disasters and major emergency events, including infectious diseases, terrorism, and military actions.
- FEMA For Kids
- Filled with games, student artwork, activities and cutting-edge graphics that deliver a serious message of disaster preparedness and mitigation for youngsters preschool through eighth grade.
- FEMA: Hazards
- Find information about specific hazards and what to do to lessen the loss of life and property damage.
- Forces of Nature
- In-depth feature from CBC News. Includes information on tornadoes, avalanches, earthquakes, and snow.
- HGTVPro.com: Disasters
- See how disasters affect the building industry, and stay abreast of preparation and recovery news. HGTVPro offers articles and video segments about hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, mudslides, earthquakes, and floods for homeowners and members of the construction industry.
- International Charter Space and Major Disasters - Charte internationale Espace et catastrophes majeures
- Aims to provide a unified system of space data acquisition and delivery to those affected by natural or man-made disasters.
- Mega Disasters
- History Channel series Mega Disasters combines science and history to recreate past disasters in modern times and locations. Weekly scenarios examine how vulnerable our complex society is to the power of Mother Nature.
- National Science Foundation: Disasters
- Special report from the NSF on understanding, preparing for, and responding to both man-made and natural disasters. Includes links to research, latest news, and teacher resources.
- Natural Disaster Reference Database
- Bibliographic database on research, programs, and results which relate to the use of satellite remote sensing for disaster mitigation.
- Natural Hazards - Earth Observatory
- Images of natural hazards observed by NASA satellites.
- Natural Hazards Center - University of Colorado, Boulder
- Clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters.
- Natural Hazards.org
- Provides information on all types of atmospheric and geologic hazards and links to hazard warning sources.
- NATURE: Can Animals Predict Disaster?
- PBS show explores a variety of science-based explanations for unusual animal behaviour observed prior to natural disasters.
- NOAAWatch: NOAA's All-Hazard Monitor
- NOAAWatch provides public access to current information on a number of environmental threats ranging from oil spills, to hurricanes and tsunamis, to space weather.
- PBS: Savage Earth
- PBS series dealing with earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, and other disasters.
- Perfect Disaster
- Discovery Channel series about perfect disasters, storms that are larger, more dangerous, and more deadly than any before them. Episodes explore what would happen if amajor metropolis were hit with a super tornado, the effects of a solar storm, a typhoon, megaflood, fire storm, or ice storm.
- Projectarcix
- Information portal on natural and synthetic disasters highlighting educator resources and terminology.
- Safe and Well List
- American Red Cross website provides a way for you to register yourself as "safe and well" if you have been affected by a disaster.
- Severe Weather Awareness
- Covers tornadoes, flash floods, lightning, blizzards, and hurricanes. From the National Weather Service.
- Sprol
- Planetary sightseeing blog. Visit some of the worst places in the world via satellite imagery.
- Texas City Disaster@
- USGS Natural Hazards Gateway
- Designed to educate citizens, emergency managers, and lawmakers on seven natural hazards facing the U.S. -- earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanoes, and wildfires -- and show how USGS science helps mitigate disasters and build resilient communities.
- World Wide Help
- Group blog using the web to point help in the direction where it's most needed. Started by the founders of the SEA EAT (South East Asian Earthquake And Tsunami) blog, wiki, and database to aid in other relief efforts.
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