Slashdot Items Tagged "disaster"

Date / Time Story
Friday January 06, 2023 @11:41AM Disaster Recovery
Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:42AM Disaster Recovery & Infrastructure As A Code
Wednesday November 11, 2020 @01:36PM Disaster 'Prepping' Was Once an American Pastime. Today, It's Mainstream Again.
Friday February 21, 2020 @06:51PM JP Morgan Economists Warn of 'Catastrophic' Climate Change
Monday December 23, 2019 @07:56PM The Navy's Flawed Bridge Technology Set the USS McCain Up For Disaster
Friday March 22, 2019 @07:59PM FEMA Data Breach Hits 2.5 Million Disaster Survivors
Monday February 11, 2019 @07:30PM Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas
Friday October 19, 2018 @06:29PM Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane
Monday January 08, 2018 @06:38PM US Disaster Costs Shatter Records In 2017, the Third-Warmest Year On Record
Friday November 24, 2017 @07:08PM Living In Nuclear Disaster Fallout Zone Would Be No Worse Than Living In London, Research Suggests
Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:01PM Evidence Suggests Updated Timeline Towards Yellowstone's Supervolcano Eruption
Friday January 27, 2017 @05:20PM Today Marks 50th Anniversary of Fatal Apollo 1 Disaster
Friday December 09, 2016 @05:37PM Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast
Wednesday May 11, 2016 @06:12PM Harvard Scientist: Rio Olympics Could Spark 'Full Blown Global Health Disaster'
Sunday March 27, 2016 @02:46PM Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error
Friday March 25, 2016 @10:24AM Area Around Chernobyl Plant To Become a Nuclear Dump
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:14PM Bob Ebeling, Challenger Engineer Who Forewarned of Shuttle Disaster, Dead At 89
Friday March 18, 2016 @11:16PM 16 US Ships That Aided In Operation Tomodachi Still Contaminated With Radiation
Saturday March 12, 2016 @01:32AM Fukushima Cleanup, 5 Years On
Monday March 07, 2016 @02:51PM 32,000 Workers At Fukushima No. 1 Got High Radiation Dose, Tepco Data Show
Sunday March 06, 2016 @03:30AM Kremlin Falls For Its Own Fake Satellite Imagery
Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:22AM Iraq's Mosul Dam Could Burst At Any Time
Tuesday March 01, 2016 @12:29PM People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong
Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:10PM To Respond To a Disease Outbreak, Bring In the Portable Genome Sequencers
Thursday January 28, 2016 @01:26PM 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You?
Tuesday December 22, 2015 @09:21AM Can Electric Signals In Earth's Atmosphere Predict Earthquakes?
Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:59PM In France, TGV Test Train Catches Fire, Derails, Killing 10
Thursday November 05, 2015 @09:46AM UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268
Monday November 02, 2015 @01:56AM Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares
Thursday October 22, 2015 @08:13AM First Cancer Case Confirmed From Fukushima Cleanup
Tuesday October 06, 2015 @09:34AM B612 Foundation Loses Partnership With NASA; Asteroids Not a Significant Risk
Wednesday September 23, 2015 @08:19AM What Hurricane Sandy Taught IT About Disaster Preparedness
Tuesday September 15, 2015 @10:57AM Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum
Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:11AM Easy-To-Clean Membrane Separates Oil From Water
Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:33PM Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars
Friday August 28, 2015 @02:54PM How NASA Defended Its Assembly Facility From Hurricane Katrina
Saturday August 22, 2015 @08:51AM NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina
Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:39AM Ecuador Declares State of Emergency Over Volcano
Tuesday August 11, 2015 @09:18AM Japan To Restart Nuclear Power Tomorrow After Energy Prices Soar
Thursday July 30, 2015 @03:05PM Indian Ocean Debris Believed To Come From Missing Flight MH370
Saturday July 25, 2015 @12:59PM Olympic Organizer Wants To Feed Athletes Fukushima Produce
Thursday July 16, 2015 @06:38AM Macon-Bibb County Government Wants $5.7 Million Drone Fleet For Emergencies
Monday July 13, 2015 @07:40AM Undersea Cable Break Disrupts Life In Northern Mariana Islands
Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:15PM A Failure For SpaceX: Falcon 9 Explodes During Ascension
Friday June 12, 2015 @07:01PM Why Our Brains Can't Process the Gravest Threats To Humanity
Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:32AM Computer Modeling Failed During the Ebola Outbreak
Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:01AM Robots Compete In Navigating Simulation Of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Plant
Friday June 05, 2015 @05:45PM How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes
Sunday May 10, 2015 @05:53PM Can Earthquakes Be Predicted Algorithmically?
Tuesday April 28, 2015 @08:40AM A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System
Monday April 27, 2015 @12:46PM Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Among Victims of Everest Avalanche
Friday April 24, 2015 @07:22AM Yellowstone Supervolcano Even Bigger Than We Realized
Thursday April 23, 2015 @10:52AM USGS: Oil and Gas Operations Could Trigger Large Earthquakes
Friday April 17, 2015 @07:45PM Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help
Monday April 13, 2015 @12:37AM Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster)
Thursday April 02, 2015 @09:19AM NASA-ESA Project Will Shoot an Asteroid To See What Happens
Monday March 09, 2015 @12:11AM MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired
Monday March 02, 2015 @11:07PM 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit
Tuesday January 27, 2015 @11:30AM Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away!
Sunday January 11, 2015 @10:21AM AirAsia QZ8501 Black Box Found
Tuesday December 30, 2014 @12:40PM Debris, Bodies Recovered From AirAsia Flight 8501
Monday December 29, 2014 @01:53PM Belize's "Blue Hole" Reveals Clues To Maya's Demise
Monday December 29, 2014 @01:30PM AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore
Tuesday November 11, 2014 @01:44PM Fukushima Radiation Nears California Coast, Judged Harmless
Tuesday November 04, 2014 @09:44AM Some Virgin Galactic Customers Demand Money Back
Tuesday November 04, 2014 @09:32AM Japan's Annual Nuclear Drill Highlights Problems
Sunday November 02, 2014 @12:54AM Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For
Saturday November 01, 2014 @04:35PM SpaceShipTwo Pilot Named; Branson Vows To 'Move Forward Together'
Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:20AM Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps
Monday October 27, 2014 @01:39PM Century Old Antarctic Expedition Notebook Found Underneath Ice
Monday October 27, 2014 @01:15PM Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients
Sunday October 19, 2014 @12:41AM Canada Will Ship 800 Doses of Experimental Ebola Drug to WHO
Friday October 17, 2014 @07:22PM Facebook 'Safety Check' Lets Friends Know You're OK After a Major Disaster
Monday October 13, 2014 @02:44AM First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster
Sunday October 12, 2014 @10:08AM Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola
Saturday October 11, 2014 @05:06PM Experts Decry Randomized Ebola Treatment Trials As Unethical, Impractical
Saturday September 27, 2014 @03:08PM Japan's Mt. Ontake Erupts, Stranding Hundreds of Hikers
Friday September 26, 2014 @10:25PM Underwater Landslide May Have Doubled 2011 Japanese Tsunami
Friday August 29, 2014 @07:29PM Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection
Sunday August 24, 2014 @02:38PM Slashdot Asks: How Prepared Are You For an Earthquake?
Sunday August 24, 2014 @08:58AM Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Northern California, Causing Injuries and Outages
Tuesday August 19, 2014 @08:39AM Ebola Quarantine Center In Liberia Looted
Sunday August 10, 2014 @08:03PM Toxic Algae Threatens Florida's Gulf Coast
Sunday August 10, 2014 @03:52PM Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem?
Thursday August 07, 2014 @03:46PM TEPCO: Nearly All Nuclear Fuel Melted At Fukushima No. 3 Reactor
Tuesday August 05, 2014 @11:49AM Australia Rebooting Search For MH370
Saturday July 26, 2014 @11:37PM Report: Nuclear Plants Should Focus On Risks Posed By External Events
Friday July 25, 2014 @09:17PM One Trillion Bq Released By Nuclear Debris Removal At Fukushima So Far
Friday July 25, 2014 @07:11PM The Truth About Solar Storms
Monday May 19, 2014 @03:31PM Fujitsu Is Growing Radiation-Free Lettuce In Japan's Fukushima Prefecture
Friday May 16, 2014 @08:35AM For US Customers, Text Access To 911 Slowly Rolls Out
Thursday May 08, 2014 @12:30PM Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:46AM Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, Redux
Tuesday May 06, 2014 @08:20AM Skepticism Grows Over Claims That MH370 Lies In the Bay of Bengal
Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:47AM 3 Former Astronauts: Earth-Asteroid Collisions Are a Real But Preventable Danger
Saturday April 05, 2014 @05:44PM Under Revised Quake Estimates, Dozens of Nuclear Reactors Face Problems
Friday April 04, 2014 @09:37PM Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370
Thursday April 03, 2014 @01:21PM How a 'Seismic Cloak' Could Slow Down an Earthquake
Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:08AM 8.2 Earthquake Off the Coast of Chile, Tsunami Triggered
Saturday March 29, 2014 @01:39AM Geologists Warned of Washington State Mudslides For Decades
Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:38AM French, Chinese Satellite Images May Show Malaysian Jet Debris
Friday March 21, 2014 @06:10PM It Was the Worst Industrial Disaster In US History, and We Learned Nothing
Monday March 17, 2014 @12:32AM Forests Around Chernobyl Aren't Decaying Properly
Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:56PM The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery
Tuesday March 11, 2014 @08:27AM China Deploys Satellites In Search For Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
Sunday March 09, 2014 @02:01PM 3 Years Later: A Fukushima Worker's Eyewitness Story
Saturday March 08, 2014 @10:51PM 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight
Monday March 03, 2014 @11:03AM Oil From the Exxon Valdez Spill Still Lingers On Alaska Beaches
Saturday March 01, 2014 @11:49AM Vodafone Foundation Launches Cell Site In a Backpack
Thursday January 16, 2014 @02:24PM Previously-Unseen Photos of Challenger Disaster Appear Online
Thursday January 02, 2014 @11:00AM Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship
Sunday December 29, 2013 @05:33PM Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship
Thursday December 26, 2013 @09:21AM Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength
Tuesday December 24, 2013 @11:56AM 2013: an Ominous Year For Warnings and Predictions
Thursday December 05, 2013 @09:20AM The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up
Saturday November 16, 2013 @07:12PM Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires
Thursday November 14, 2013 @11:03AM We're Safe From the Latest SARS-Like Disease...For the Moment
Thursday November 07, 2013 @04:28PM Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire
Sunday November 03, 2013 @09:18PM Indonesian Erruption Forces Evacuation of 1300
Thursday October 03, 2013 @08:59AM Fukushima Leak Traced To Overflow Tank Built On a Slope
Thursday September 26, 2013 @08:05AM Twitter Launches Emergency Alerts
Monday September 09, 2013 @11:50AM Fixing Fukushima's Water Problem
Friday August 23, 2013 @08:25PM Search For Evi Nemeth Continues
Thursday August 22, 2013 @11:27AM Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts
Tuesday August 06, 2013 @11:42AM Fukishima Springs Water Leak
Tuesday July 30, 2013 @09:25AM Second SFO Disaster Avoided Seconds Before Crash
Tuesday July 16, 2013 @02:17PM Hurricane Sandy a 1-in-700-Year Event Says NASA Study
Friday July 12, 2013 @06:04PM Gladwell's Culture & Air Crashes Analysis Badly Flawed
Friday July 12, 2013 @05:57PM Container Ship Breaks In Two, Sinks
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @10:40AM Malcolm Gladwell On Culture and Airplane Crashes
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:59AM Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:03AM Detroit's Emergency Dispatch System Fails
Saturday June 29, 2013 @11:02AM Unix Guru Evi Nemeth Missing, Feared Lost At Sea
Friday May 03, 2013 @11:31PM In Sandy-Struck NJ Town, Verizon Goes All Wireless, No Copper
Thursday January 31, 2013 @09:26AM Oil Detection Methods Miss Important Class of Chemicals
Thursday January 17, 2013 @05:55PM New Microsoft App To Coordinate Disaster-Relief Efforts
Tuesday January 08, 2013 @09:18AM Researchers Seek to Use Drones For Brushfire Forecasting
Saturday December 22, 2012 @08:20PM Asteroid 2011 AG5 Will Miss Earth In 2040
Tuesday December 11, 2012 @09:09AM US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns
Thursday November 15, 2012 @10:10AM Fukushima Ocean Radiation Won't Quit
Sunday November 04, 2012 @02:06PM New Jersey Residents Displaced By Storm Can Vote By Email
Friday November 02, 2012 @07:26PM Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday
Thursday November 01, 2012 @03:23PM NYC Data Center Needs Focus On Fuel
Thursday November 01, 2012 @02:47PM Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy
Monday October 22, 2012 @12:34PM Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter
Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:06PM Scientists Link Deep Wells To Deadly Spanish Quake
Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:50AM Around 200,000 Tons of Deep Water Horizon Oil and Gas Consumed By Bacteria
Monday September 10, 2012 @01:13PM Following FEMA's Zombie Preparedness Plan Could Land You On Terrorist List
Friday September 07, 2012 @07:26PM Mt. Fuji May Be Close To Erupting
Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:55PM Twitter Based "Ted" System Warns of Earthquakes Earlier
Saturday September 01, 2012 @05:21PM Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles?
Thursday August 30, 2012 @08:08AM Japan Considers '911' Calls From Twitter, Social Networks
Tuesday August 28, 2012 @09:52AM Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers?
Thursday August 23, 2012 @05:23PM Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @12:40PM "Knitted" Wi-Fi Routers Create Failover Network For First Responders
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:32AM How Technology Might Avert an Apocalypse
Tuesday August 21, 2012 @08:22AM The Panic Over Fukushima
Thursday August 16, 2012 @01:12PM Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event?
Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:26AM "Severe Abnormalities" Found In Fukushima Butterflies
Thursday August 09, 2012 @03:10PM For Much of the World, Demand For Water Outstrips Supply
Thursday August 09, 2012 @08:24AM Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers?
Saturday June 23, 2012 @08:38PM Fires Sparked By Utah Target Shooters Prompt Evacuations
Saturday June 23, 2012 @12:10PM Laser Treatment For Earth-Bound Asteroids
Monday June 18, 2012 @05:00AM Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network
Friday June 08, 2012 @08:20PM OpenRelief Project Launches Disaster Drone Project at LinuxCon Japan
Sunday June 03, 2012 @01:35AM Canadian Agency Investigates US Air Crash
Thursday May 10, 2012 @09:36AM Russian Superjet 100 Crashes During Demo Flight, Killing All Aboard
Friday April 06, 2012 @11:29PM Data Safety In a Time of Natural Disasters
Thursday April 05, 2012 @04:56PM World Is Ignoring Most Important Lesson From Fukushima
Saturday March 31, 2012 @03:55PM Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami
Friday March 30, 2012 @11:04PM JAXA Creates Camera That Can See Radiation
Tuesday March 27, 2012 @11:05AM 'Frothy Gunk' From Deepwater Horizon Spill Harming Coral
Thursday March 08, 2012 @09:10AM What To Do About an Asteroid That Has a 1 In 625 Chance of Hitting Us In 2040?
Friday March 02, 2012 @07:30PM One In Eight Chance of a Financially Catastrophic Solar Storm By 2020
Tuesday February 28, 2012 @09:20AM Facebook Tests 'Safe' User Tag For Disasters
Saturday February 25, 2012 @04:13PM NRC Releases Audio of Fukushima Disaster
Friday February 24, 2012 @08:19PM Hard Drive Shortage Relief Coming In Q1 2012
Thursday February 16, 2012 @05:29PM US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case
Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:22AM Air Guns Shake Up Earthquake Monitoring
Tuesday January 24, 2012 @10:15PM The High-Radiation Lives and Risks of Nuclear-Nomad Subcontractors
Friday January 20, 2012 @11:56PM Endoscopic Exam of Fukushima Reactor
Friday January 20, 2012 @10:18AM What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship?
Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:22AM Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:44PM The Doomsday Clock Is Moved Closer To Midnight
Sunday January 08, 2012 @12:00PM Where Were the Robots In Fukushima Crisis?
Saturday January 07, 2012 @03:27AM NetApp, Lenovo Raise Prices, Citing Thailand Flooding Effects
Thursday December 29, 2011 @10:52AM Melting Glaciers Cutting Peru Water Supply
Tuesday December 27, 2011 @10:04AM Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident
Thursday December 22, 2011 @09:30AM Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides
Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:58AM Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive
Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:25AM Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties
Friday December 16, 2011 @12:26PM Fukushima Finally Reaches Cold Shutdown
Thursday December 15, 2011 @08:50AM Japanese Use Wild Monkeys To Track Radiation
Friday December 09, 2011 @10:40PM PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives
Thursday December 08, 2011 @10:18AM Wielding Supercomputers To Make High-Stakes Predictions
Friday December 02, 2011 @07:03PM Using Toads to Predict Earthquakes
Thursday December 01, 2011 @09:09AM Stephen Wolfram Joins The Life Boat Foundation and Bets On Singularity
Thursday December 01, 2011 @03:33AM UK Plans Space Based Radar System
Friday November 25, 2011 @06:58PM Worldwide Support For Nuclear Power Drops
Friday November 18, 2011 @01:42AM All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe