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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Tripura roused
Government wakes up to the need for disaster management
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Salt of the sea
Disasters often help science researchers to understand natural phenomenon closely, and the Asian tsunami is no different.
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A look at world urban population
Homo sapien as an urban, undeveloped species >> From 1950 to 2000, the urban population of the world quadrupled
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Death tremors
On October 8, 2005, a powerful earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, rocked Pakistan and India's northern border. More than 30,000 died and there was widespread damage. The death toll is
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Delhi is earthquake prone
The 2001 Bhuj earthquake was something of a watershed in Indian disaster preparedness. Several state governments, most so in the Northeast, and various central ministries were shocked into a comprehension of the dangers. However, national capital New Delh
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Dangerously beautiful
Lake Nyos in western Cameroon is waiting to spill carbon dioxide that would choke entire communities along its shores. A similar disaster asphyxiated hundreds of cattle and killed over 1,700 people
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Their Misery Continues
Post tsunami relief work in Sri Lanka is bogged down by corruption, inefficiency and political machinations
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So that they can aid
Disasters
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Mission impossible
Post Tsunami Sri Lanka traverses the snag infested path to disaster management
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Self sufficient victims
Post-tsunami, expensive coral restoration plans might not be needed after all, says a recent advisory report commissioned by the World Bank (wb) and prepared by scientists led by a researcher from