Etiket: disasters
Statement of the day | More money is needed for water boards to prevent disasters caused by climate change
Storm Pia has been in the Netherlands in recent days. Fallen trees, blown over trailers and the wheelie bin in the hedge. According to experts, we will have to deal…
Sri Lanka has nature manager fly into the Wadden Sea for advice in the event of natural disasters: ‘A country under construction’
Take a long trip to Asia for your work as a nature manager of the Wadden Sea. That may not sound logical, but Henk Middendorp traveled to Sri Lanka to…
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron about submarine drama: “I see similarities between the two disasters” | Missing submarine
“I am shocked at the similarities this has with the Titanic disaster, where the captain was repeatedly warned of an approaching ice floe at the time, yet continued at full…
Weather disasters have claimed nearly 195,000 lives in Europe since 1980
Extreme weather events, such as heat waves and floods, have killed some 195,000 people in Europe since 1980 and caused damage worth nearly €560 billion. This is evident from a…
Weather disasters have claimed nearly 195,000 lives in Europe since 1980
Extreme weather events, such as heat waves and floods, have killed some 195,000 people in Europe since 1980 and caused damage worth nearly €560 billion. This is evident from a…
Avalanche kills 11 members of nomadic tribe in Pakistan, president warns of more natural disasters | Abroad
A group of nomads trekking through the mountains in northern Pakistan with their herds has been hit by an avalanche. At least 11 people were killed, including a 4-year-old boy.…
Avalanche kills 11 members of Pakistan’s nomadic tribe, president warns of more natural disasters
A group of nomads trekking through the mountains in northern Pakistan with their herds has been hit by an avalanche. At least 11 people were killed, including a 4-year-old boy.…
Record number of 71 million internally displaced people worldwide in 2022, mainly due to climate disasters and war
The number of internally displaced persons worldwide will rise to a record 71.1 million by 2022. This is according to a Thursday published report of the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center…
Can Chernobyl’s Dogs Teach Us New Tricks To Survive Nuclear Disasters?
More than 35 years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, dogs still roam the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Somehow they are still able to find food, reproduce and survive.…
War, poverty and earthquake: disasters pile up in northwestern Syria | Earthquake Turkey and Syria
The earthquake that hit southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday has sparked another humanitarian disaster in the partly rebel-held northwestern corner of Syria. Precisely in the area where there…