2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Tsunami
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Calling Dx Pedition
Amateur Radio
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Sea walls opposed
Andaman s ecology will suffer
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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
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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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Andhra salt makers want recognition as farmers
"Why shouldn't salt-making be classed as agriculture?' asks R Potharaju. "Both require land, water and sunshine, and are subject to vagaries of nature,' he reasons. Potharaju is convenor of the
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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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Trouble s back door entry
Eu members recently agreed over eu fisheries commissioner Joe Borg's proposal to send fishing boats to tsunami-affected Asian countries. But experts warn that instead of having a positive effect,
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Mission impossible
Post Tsunami Sri Lanka traverses the snag infested path to disaster management
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Learning to bargain
Aggressively claiming its right over its natural resources post tsunami, Indonesia recently adopted a new law that requires all foreign fishing vessels to give 70 per cent of their catch to the
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South Asia
Averse to law: The Afghanistan government, along with the UN, has rejected a call of experts to legalise cultivation of opium crops in the country. Eighty seven per cent of the world's opium is