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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UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations Food Agency (UNFA) has predicted that 1999 will be a difficult year as far as natural disasters are concerned. "Forecasts for the 1999 show there will be a likely increase in the
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Catastrophic change
Continents break up, move away and rejoin again. Such unsteady phenomenon on the Earth has been happening for ages. Recently, scientists have predicted that in 50 million years from now, the
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UNITED NATIONS
With the world perilously close to a global crisis in infectious diseases, the UN health body has chalked out a 20-point programme on how to prevent it. WHO has admitted that the promised slogan of
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Change in cycles
Disasters occur in cycles, suggests a recent study. A discovery by resear chers at the National Geophysical Research Institute in Hyderabad, lends force to their earlier finding that geological and
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SAARC ratifies committee on environment
The ad hoc South Asian technical committee for environmental reforms is accorded permanent status
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Forced migration
A disaster the world prefers to forget
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Earth shaking intervention
An earthquake rocks El Salvador causing widespread destruction. Deforestation aggravates the situation
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Disaster Management Bill 2005
Ignores to far has been reactive; not much
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Online
www.indiadisasters.org A GOOD HELP This is arguably the first Indian website to deal with disasters. And www.indiadisasters.org covers a broad canvas: from hooch tragedies to the recent
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Stand up again
The tsunami is a chance to rebuild self reliance and governance of the Nicobar Islands. <font class='UCASE'>suresh babu</font> returns from the islands to tell <font class='UCASE'>nitin sethi</font> how