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Natural disasters make 2011 costliest year

Natural disasters make 2011 costliest year


Natural disasters cost the global economy 380 billion dollars last year, making it the costliest yea...
Wildlife under threat from natural disasters

Wildlife under threat from natural disasters


Scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have come up with a method to identify wildli...
`India, China most prone to natural disasters`

`India, China most prone to natural disasters`


Emerging economies like India, China face the highest economic risk from natural disasters, says a r...
Central America launches its Google of weather

Central America launches its Google of weather


Oficials launched a database dubbed the `Google of Central American weather`, designed to predict na...
Scientists develop tool to predict tsunamis, landslides

Scientists develop tool to predict tsunamis, landslides


Landslide probabilities can be predicted by establishing rainstorm threshold totals for any area on ...
`Natural disasters to cost $185bn yearly`

`Natural disasters to cost $185bn yearly`


Annual global losses from natural disasters could triple to a whopping USD 185 billion by the end of...

Indo-Pak precedent of help during natural disasters: Qureshi


Pakistan`s foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said that New Delhi and Islamabad had ...
Natural disasters can linked to climate change: Hillary

Natural disasters can linked to climate change: Hillary


The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the increase in natural disasters across t...
Filipinos fear God`s wrath in natural disasters

Filipinos fear God`s wrath in natural disasters


A survey shows 21% Filipinos attribute the natural disasters to God`s wrath.
WB loan to help India battle natural disasters

WB loan to help India battle natural disasters


The World Bank approved a $255 mn assistance to India to help mitigate the risks by natural disaster...

Orissa lost 49,736 lives in disasters in 38 years


Altogether 49,736 people were killed and property worth Rs 8814 crore was lost due to natural disa...
Typhoon turns back, dumps rain on northern Philippines

Typhoon turns back, dumps rain on northern Philippines


A powerful typhoon that slammed into the northern Philippines over the weekend has made a U-turn and...
President declares `state of calamity` in Philippines

President declares `state of calamity` in Philippines


President Gloria Arroyo on Friday placed the entire Philippines under a "state of calamity”, as a po...

`100 villages in U`khand prone to natural disasters`


About 100 villages in Uttarakhand are prone to natural disasters, a recent official report stated....