Weather, War, Disease and Economic crisis
can drastically alter any business.
Keep up to date with the latest disaster information and avoid being
caught in the middle.
Here a number of
Emergency Links
Weather and Natural Disasters
The National
Hurricane Center brings up to date and historical hurricane information. Go to www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics.html
for direct visual images
Tropical weather and daily checking during hurricane
season:
Was
that a truck or was that an earth tremor last night? Check out all recent data
on the National Earthquake Information Center for a subscription to immediate reports
log into http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/data_services/data_services.htm
United States
drought information found here. Also definitions of drought and other related
info.
http://edcw2ks40.cr.usgs.gov/sa_floods
Southern Africa Flood
& Drought Network: Latest info on the South
African Drought and food security in the Region.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
This NASA site
gives ample information of vegetation cover, pollution, temperatures, Global
Warming with a large selection of clear satellite images.
Monitoring of volcanic
activity around the globe.
http://home.wfp.org/epweb/
(restricted access, wfpgo and ep password required)
The Emergency
Preparedness Web is a tool to support the corporate information management
needs of WFP for emergency preparedness and response worldwide.
mobile home / epbrowser ep
GM Contamination (are fears justified?;
make your own opinion)
http://mars.cropsoil.uga.edu/~parrottlab/forum2.htm
This University of Georgia site
provides tones of information on the true dangers and false rumors of GM foods.
Do you have to worry?
One of the biggest threats to
Economic Development in the Developing World. How does it affect you and your
business?
The UN AIDS organization provides up to date information on the Spread of the HIV virus
A HIV-AIDS information page with info on prevention, treatment, living with HIV-AIDS.
Information site on HIV-AIDS with video presentations and
treatment descriptions
Everything you
always wanted to know about condoms but were afraid to ask
http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/tropmed/
This very good
site is aimed at the traveler who wants to be informed about risks of, and
prevention of, illness in a tropical setting. Gives descriptions of many
different diseases, indications and treatments as well as geographical data.
World Health
Organization gives a wide variety of information on health related issues,
prevention and prevalence.
What is that
drug the doctor prescribed? Avoid using too strong or even dangerous drugs by
checking your prescription on this very informative US government site.
University of California
Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (UC IPM) develops and promotes the
use of integrated, ecologically sound pest management programs. Very good
source of information on all types of pests and control mechanisms
www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/hortcrops/english
This WWW site will help to increase crop pest diagnosis and integrated pest management information capability among farmers of developing countries. Improvement in pest identification and pest biology and ecology will allow an increase in the adoption of IPM practices to control crop pest problems
http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/2_0cat.htm
Mom. Look at
this cute little octopus” heeelp!!!
A list of poisonous plants and animals. An Australian based site full of surprises