More than 220,000 people died from natural disasters in 2008
Natural disasters robbed more than 220,000 people in the past year and caused about $ 200 billion in damage.
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Natural disasters robbed more than 220,000 people in the past year and caused about $ 200 billion in damage.
A Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400 heavy aircraft yesterday successfully tested a two-hour flight using a portion of vegetable fuel.
Unprecedented scenes in Hanoi, immense flood waters from morning to midnight. In the middle of the night, you may not be able to get to the street because they are so si…
On the afternoon of November 2, while many inner city streets were still flooded, dozens of kilometers of suburban dikes and dams in Hanoi were severely eroded.
Methylmercury (MeHg), the most common form of mercury found in the blood of marine animals, can hurt seals more seriously than previously thought.
Six months after Nargis stormed into Myanmar, more than 130,000 people were killed, many people living in the Irrawaddy Delta, the worst affected area, continue to rely…
On November 2, a series of Central American countries were engulfed in the rain. In Honduras, flooding caused at least 46 people to die and 16 others to disappear.
The rich often live longer than the poor, but the gap in life expectancy is significantly reduced in cities with lots of recreational space such as parks, swimming pools…
Before the convoluted creep threatens the survival of the national forbidden forest of Son Tra, Da Nang City People's Committee decided to spend 100 million emergency tr…
The war with warmer weather has an ally that nobody expected. It is the fungus that grows in dry spruce forests in Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia ....
The rate of population growth and urbanization out of control in developing countries has been causing many environmental and social consequences.
Indonesia has just launched a new tsunami warning system. This system is designed to help coastal residents have enough time to evacuate before the tsunami hits.
The US Supreme Court has issued a ruling allowing the navy to use submarine detection devices (sonar) during exercises on the California coast, ...
A city in southern China is considering the possibility of using contaminated milk powder as a raw material for brick production, to limit the risk of soil and water pol…
Early this morning (November 17), a strong earthquake struck off the island of Sulawesi, northern Indonesia, causing at least two people to die and damage hundreds of ho…