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Fresh avalanche warning in Gurez sector of J-K

Authorities here on Tuesday issued a fresh avalanche warning for snow-bound areas in Gurez sector of...

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

Scientists from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) have come up with a method to identify wildli...

`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

Oficials launched a database dubbed the `Google of Central American weather`, designed to predict na...

Scientists develop tool to predict tsunamis, landslides

Landslide probabilities can be predicted by establishing rainstorm threshold totals for any area on ...

Scientists warn of water woes

Within a generation, water demand in many countries is forecast to exceed supply by an estimated 40%...

New satellites to be able to predict earthquakes

The two linked satellites will monitor zones with high seismic and volcanic activity.

India ranks 2nd in world for natural disasters: UN

India ranks second in the world for natural disasters after China, a top UN official has said unde...

Brazil`s `worst natural disaster` kills nearly 500 people

Nearly 500 people have dead from mudslides in Brazil facing its worst natural disaster.

`Natural disasters to cost $185bn yearly`

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

Resettle people hit by natural disaster: Rawat to U`kand govt

Harish Rawat said that since 252 villages have become unsafe the state government should search the ...

Pak flood threatens to submerge Thatta; forces mass exodus

UN warned that an estimated 72,000 children were at "high risk of death" due to malnutrition.

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

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

A survey shows 21% Filipinos attribute the natural disasters to God`s wrath.

Nature’s fury affects nation; 500 still missing in Leh

People struggled to cope with the aftermath of cloudburst in Leh, and heavy rains and subsequent flo...

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...

Comprehensive Plan for natural disaster needed: Rosaiah

Chief Minister K Rosaiah on Sunday complimented the government officials in tackling the cyclonic ...

Here`s the science behind quakes

In a new study, Northeastern earth and environmental sciences professor Jennifer Cole has discussed ...

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...

Now, cybugs `to access areas people can`t go

You can call it straight from a science fiction -- a "cybug" that can access those areas where peopl...

Philippine floods: Schools reopen, homeless remain

Students carrying mud-stained books returned to some schools on Monday for the first time since dead...

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

Typhoon Ketsana leaves over 360 dead across SE Asia

A new typhoon gathered strength on Thursday off the Philippines while nearly 700,000 people still so...

Death toll in Russian dam disaster rises to 72: Reports

The death toll in the disaster at a Russian hydroelectric power plant rose to 72 today as searchers ...

Asia-Pacific quakes herald a disaster?

Powerful earthquakes that have jolted Asia recently do not presage a disaster, although it is only a...

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

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

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