News in Japan - January

GEJET
One in four tsunami children needs psychiatric care
Naraha mayor rejects gov't plan to build nuclear waste storage facility

Japan
Tokyo can't handle heavy snowfall If the temperature drops below minus 4 degrees Celsius for several hours, water in the pipes freezes and expands, causing pipes to rupture. Last winter, Tokyo reported some 200 such cases, and the figure in 2011 was about 550 cases. Ominously, in both of these cases the temperature remained higher than minus 4 degrees.

USA
'It's too darn cold': Historic freeze brings rare danger warning
Storm Surge Barriers for Manhattan Could Worsen Effects On Nearby Areas: Other Options Proposed

Other areas
Roots of Deadly 2010 India Flood Identified; Findings Could Improve Warnings
Mapping the Benefits of Our Ecosystems
Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up

Top 50 Water Blogs 2013

SDGs open way for ‘resilient development’

Call for applications: Future Earth Engagement Committee

Climate change research is globally skewed

Sea level variations escalating along eastern Gulf of Mexico coast

World's most vulnerable areas to climate change mapped

Vulnerable people
Equality man and woman in constitution Tunesia (Dutch)

Only 15% of Davos attendees are women, even fewer than last year

Psychological vulnerable older adults are more susceptible to fraud