Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Natural Disasters
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Cure before birth
Genetically weak foetuses can grow into healthy humans with bone marrow transplants
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Ozone overview
Nearly 82 per cent of ozone depleting substances (ods) responsible for most of the harm done to the ozone layer are anthropogenic in nature, related to the West's consumptive lifestyle. If their
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Dead… naturally!
In the last two decades, the number of persons affected by disasters increased at the rate of six per cent per year, which corresponds to three times the annual population growth. There were nearly
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Havoc in the Himalaya
<p>Read this chapter from the report "floods, flood plains and environmental myths" published by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), that broke many myths about floods in the Himalaya.</p>
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Then and now...
RITA ANAND explores how a megacity civilisation of Central American Indians Had survived on natural resource management, and what needs to be done to Salvage the system
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THAILAND
Rice producing areas across Asia have been hit by huge floods in early October. Thailand, one of the world's top growers and rice exporters has been hard hit with as much as 10 per cent of the
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Tracing truth
The Sherlock Holmeses of today have moved from the familiar confines of Baker Street to the esoteric climes of biological labs
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RATS!
Bangladesh premier Begum Khaleda Zia has launched a nation-wide "kill rodents" campaign. She is offering attractive prizes to the killers, provided they produce the tails of their victims before the
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Green peace in black curls
Traditional tea cultivation in China"s Jinuoshan area, unlike in most other places, ensures ecological balance
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A CASE OF HUNGER
An imminent food crisis threatens to envelop thousands of Sri Lankans in the island's war-torn Jaffna peninsula in the north, as food supplies to the region have been suspeIJded. The suspension is