In urban areas, where extreme weather events like floods and heat waves can have devastating impacts, the dense network of smartphones has the potential to provide better spatial coverage than traditional weather stations.
Israel, Cyprus, and Greece have signed a cooperation agreement in 2016 to build a wide-ranging system of emergency cooperation between the countries, including firefighting and handling of natural disasters.
An Israeli zoo sent assistance to koalas and other indigenous animals as Australia faces apocalyptic fires that have killed an estimated 480 million creatures thus far.
As Israel braces for more wildfires while temperatures spike, the Israeli prime minister thanked its neighbors Greece, Croatia, Italy, Egypt and Cyprus for sending help battling the blazes.
Continuing the Israeli tradition of international assistance in the face of natural disasters, firefighters from the Jewish state helped battle massive fires in Macedonia. After Macedonia declared a state of emergency earlier this month based on a heatwave accompanied by raging wildfires, Israeli firefighters heeded the call, heading to the Balkan nation to get the... Read more »