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The Japan Times
September 12, 2017
Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, regularly ... In this regard, the needed construction of levees can also makeÃÂ ...
Millennium Post
September 3, 2017
... respectively, a levee that was near breaking point and houses that were ... to weather extremes, may not directly generalise upon Indonesia.
Jacobin magazine
August 31, 2017
... dikes and levees make people feel safe, even when they are not.” ... the Straits of Malacca, which run between Malaysia and Indonesian.
Jamaica Observer
August 31, 2017
Cecile Levee (CL): My love affair with wine started in New York City while ... Belgium, UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden and Indonesia.
Investing.com
August 30, 2017
... Houston and a levee in a suburban subdivision began overflowing Tuesday, .... In exchange, the Indonesian government agreed to extendÃÂ ...
Eos
August 10, 2017
... Hawaii Tsunami”) and Azizah Dewi Suryaningsih, State Senior High School 1 Yogyakarta, Indonesia (“Bamboo Forest as a Natural Levee ofÃÂ ...
AccuWeather.com
May 4, 2017
A dangerous flooding situation in northeastern Arkansas worsened on Wednesday morning when a levee failed along the Black River near theÃÂ ...
wwlp.com
April 6, 2017
Surveillance video from a Live Oak homeowner shows Yeoman's truck driving onto a levee around 10:55 p.m. Thursday night. The video showsÃÂ ...
9news.com.au
April 6, 2017
The Queensland premier is committed to help fund a new levee for ... be more cost-effective in the long term to build levees, but they needÃÂ ...
The Independent
April 6, 2017
Jet boats and tractors have been used to help rescue around 2,000 people in a New Zealand town after a river burst through a concrete levee,ÃÂ ...
9news.com.au
April 3, 2017
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has pressured the federal government to match her commitment to fund flood levees inÃÂ ...
Daily Advertiser
March 16, 2017
ALL SMILES: Kerry Weir is thankful he managed to get Levee Bank reinstated for the SDRA Country Championships Qualifier at Albury onÃÂ ...
Tempo.co
March 8, 2017
“However, there will be another decision to make, which is Jakarta needs to build a 20-kilometer long levee,” Bambang said after a meetingÃÂ ...
KGO-TV
February 20, 2017
A levee along the San Joaquin River near Manteca, Calif. was breached Monday evening. Mandatory evacuations were ordered near the area.
Modesto Bee
February 20, 2017
An evacuation was ordered Monday night by San Joaquin County after a report of a levee breach in a rural area southwest of Manteca.
The Guardian
November 21, 2016
That's a drop in the ocean compared to Indonesia's capital, .... Wall, the Indonesian government asked the Dutch consultants to deliver a moreÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 2, 2016
The Indonesian government signed over to Freeport the right to extract ... child and maternal mortality rates in Indonesia, as well as the worst health ... A 2009 report by the company says it utilises levees to contain tailings inÃÂ ...
Philippine Star
December 31, 1999
Indonesia, however, will be the most affected country in the region by coastal ... Government should be building and reinforcing levees andÃÂ ...
WAOW
February 23, 2017
(AP Photo/Vincent Thian). Malaysian Police stand outside North Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. North Korea denied Thursday that its agents masterminded the assassination of the half brother of leader Kim Jong Un,ÃÂ ...
Castanet.net
February 22, 2017
One woman is Indonesian; the other is Vietnamese. Police were already searching for five additional North Koreans .... Further north, farmers used tractors to shore up an endangered levee in California's agricultural heartland, officials opened a ...
Mother Nature Network (blog)
February 22, 2017
One of nine major global migratory flyways, the East Asian-Australasian Flyway encompasses 22 different countries including China, Japan, New Zealand, Indonesia, Thailand, Russia and the United States (just Alaska). Lingang Bird Sanctuary, a migratoryÃÂ ...
Castanet.net
February 21, 2017
Torrential rains in the Indonesian capital have overwhelmed drains and flooded roads and thousands of homes. The disaster mitigation agency said Tuesday that more than 50 areas are flooded in Jakarta, with waters up to 1.5 metres high in East Jakarta.
Canton Repository
February 20, 2017
In 2015, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it would spend $11.5 million to repair the aging Zoar Levee, which protects the town from flooding.
The Indian Express
January 24, 2017
It sought to bind Pacific nations closer, and serve as a levee against China's regional influence. An independent study said the deal, championed by President Barack Obama as a way to establish a ... His Trade Minister Steven Ciobo said, "There would ...
Dallas News
December 29, 2016
Recently I've been dismayed, as an ecologist, by politicians using "swamp" as a derogatory term for our nation's capital and what goes on there.
Asia Pacific Report
November 30, 2016
Today, these remote, sharp-edged mountains are part of West Papua, Indonesia, and home to the Grasberg mine, one of the biggest gold mines - and third largest copper mine - in the world.
Tempo.co
October 25, 2016
"Building and reinforcing levees in the coastal areas should be enough," Muin said at the National Commission for Human Rights office on Tuesday, October 25, 2016.
WEEI.com
October 3, 2016
It'll give himself a little bit you know rather than yell runner down the field of Indonesia the fight nobody accused the automatic you know make a play.
Hollywood Reporter
September 28, 2016
Chris Jackson, editor-in-chief of Random House imprint One World, reveals the book will be released in January, just ahead of the five-year anniversary of the teen's shooting, and also shares how TV's diversity is influencing his work and whether ...
Truthdig
September 19, 2016
For an example of a society that has been utterly destroyed, and whose lands have been left as a kind of buffer zone against future disasters, our authors travel to the island of Java, Indonesia, where a volcano erupted in 2006, slowly burying a nearby ...
WUNC
September 17, 2016
"Basically this is a life threatening situation," says Victor Coenen, an engineer for the Dutch engineering firm Witteveen+Bos, whom the Indonesian government has asked for help shoring up its flood-control infrastructure. "If this seawall ... And ...
Tempo.co
September 13, 2016
We will also build a levee across Cilincing and build another flats for fishermen," Ahok said Tuesday evening at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry office building, Central Jakarta.
KALW
August 30, 2016
Today Tuesday, 30th of August of 2016 is the 243rd day of the year There are 123 days remaining until the end of the year. The sun rose in San Francisco at 6:40 am and sunset will be at 7:40 pm.
Tempo.co
August 19, 2016
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Head of Jakarta Water System Teguh Hendrawan confirmed of a levee breach at Pondok Labu, South Jakarta.
Tempo.co
June 19, 2016
"As a result, the rivers and creeks around the area burst its' banks - and destroyed the levees at the village of Penggarutan," said Adisana Village Chief, Komarudin, on Sunday, June 19, 2016.
Tempo.co
June 4, 2016
The managers of Pantai Mutiara Estate have also deployed at least five dump trucks filled with bags of soil to reinforce the damaged levees. Efforts to temporarily patch the damage is still ongoing - with the aid of DKI Jakarta's BPBD, the Indonesian ...
Chicago Tribune
May 31, 2016
It's been 10 years, but Muslimah still remembers vividly the quiet morning in May of 2006, when scalding mud and gas burst violently from the ground here in Sidoarjo, a small regency in East Java, Indonesia. "I was shocked," she ... Atop the levee that ...
Jakarta Globe
May 30, 2016
Police said a 14-year-old girl had been raped by eight men near a levee on Sekretaris River in Tanjung Barat, West Jakarta.
Foreign Policy (blog)
May 29, 2016
It's been ten years, but Muslimah still remembers vividly the quiet morning in May of 2006, when scalding mud and gas burst violently from the ground here in Sidoarjo, a small regency in East Java, Indonesia. "I was shocked," she says. "It was ... Atop ...
Maxim Indonesia
May 3, 2016
Apa jadinya pentolan grup dari Guns N' Roses dan Pearl Jam bergabung dalam satu grup band? Penulis : Wahyu Kurniawan. Belum lama ini Duff McKagan bassist Guns N' Roses dan Mike McGready gitaris dari Pearl Jam membentuk Levee WalkersÃÂ ...
Tempo.co
April 23, 2016
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Residents on the banks of the Ciliwung River in Ancol Sub-District in North Jakarta are celebrating the World's Earth Day on April 22 every year, by working together to clean up the river, teaching and sorting out rubbish and ...
Tempo.co
April 21, 2016
"We recommend [the goverment to announce it as] an extraordinary event," Tri said. Therefore flood handling could immediately be carried out, he said.
Arizona State University
April 8, 2016
The Netherlands are far wealthier than the other countries discussed in the study - India, Nepal and Indonesia. Global death rates from natural disasters plummeted in the 20th century, a chart in the report illustrates.
Esquire.com
March 24, 2016
TV reporters wait below on the levee of the C-4 canal, which drains water from the Everglades toward Biscayne Bay. ... catfish, Malagasy chameleons, Indonesian gecko, Australian melaleuca, Cuban tree frog, Brazilian peppertree, Cuban anole, Mayan ...
The Guardian
March 27, 2016
It's an angry, in-depth look at how the levees failed in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and what happened in the aftermath.
Esquire.com
March 24, 2016
ALLIGATOR RON BERGERON, one of Florida's leading conservationists, steps out of his glinting gold-and-black Hummer. TV reporters wait below on the levee of the C-4 canal, which drains water from the Everglades toward Biscayne Bay. In snakeskin bootsÃÂ ...
GreenBiz
March 22, 2016
After dealing with devastating floods, the city built levees and relocated businesses, including my grandfather's, out of the flood plain.
Yahoo News
March 16, 2016
It would also pale in size and toxicity compared to the world's largest volcanic acid lake, Kawah Ijen, located in the mountains of East Java, Indonesia. Exploring a ... While tourists and workers visit Kawah Ijen on a daily basis, Indonesian and ...
Tempo.co
March 16, 2016
The flood is due to a levee burst of Cikidang River. Before the levee bursted, continous heavy rain occurred in the region.
National Mirror
March 7, 2016
In recent time, millions of people across the world have been affected by deadly floods resulting from torrential rains in China, Australia, Japan, United States of America, Indonesia and Brazil. All of these experiences are largely ... According to ...
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