This year's edition marks sustained international efforts dedicated to reporting on, analysing and understanding the year-to-year variations and long-term trends of a changing climate.
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This year's edition marks sustained international efforts dedicated to reporting on, analysing and understanding the year-to-year variations and long-term trends of a changing climate.
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Worldwide, there were about 5.2 million new internal displacements associated with conflict and violence in the first half of 2018. More than 1.7 million of these occurred in Ethiopia and Somalia.
DPRK + 4 more
Heavy flooding caused by Tropical Storm Soulik displaced over 58,000 people in Kangwon and South Hamgyong provinces of DPR Korea. The government is providing assistance.
Kerala's floods and landslides have left ruin so terrible that about 200,000 people will be unable return home for at least six months, Christian Aid estimates.
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As of 19 August, flooding in India's Kerala state has caused 361 deaths and displaced 725,000 people. Cyclone Bebinca caused flooding in Viet Nam, Thailand, and Laos.
"We’re hearing reports of damage to major infrastructure and homes, while hundreds of schools are being used to shelter those who fled their homes,” said the head of Save the Children in India.
El presente análisis tiene por objetivo evaluar el impacto de las inundaciones en el estado de Tabasco entre los años 2007 y 2010 y de las inversiones en RRD en el bienestar socioeconómico de la población de Tabasco.
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The publication gathers a variety of cases studies, such as Typhoon Bopha, planned development-induced migration from hydroelectric dams in China and the Lower Mekong Delta and slow-onset droughts displacing pastoralists in Kenya.
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The world has experienced three consecutive years where annual economic losses have exceeded $100 billion due to an enormous increase in exposure of industrial assets to extreme disaster events.
Myanmar + 7 more
Myanmar - The total IDP caseload in Rakhine state is nearly 110,000 people. Violence in Oct caused 89 deaths and 136 injuries. Over 5,300 houses and religious buildings were burned or destroyed. The Gov requested international assistance to support the humanitarian response. Source: OCHA Viet...
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Despite a four-day truce which was supposed to come into effect on Friday 26 October, fighting has continued to escalate in Damascus province, Aleppo, Idlib, Daara and Deir Ezzor in Syria manifested by a new wave of airstrikes by the Syrian forces and attacks by the rebels on strategic army...
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Grants help partners quickly respond to disasters October 1, 2012 AmeriCares Global Pre-Positioning Initiative, launched in early 2012, has already helped crucial aid quickly reach flood survivors in Pakistan, the Philippines, Colombia, India and Indonesia – aid that is put in place before...
Amalendu KunduAmalendu Kundu, TNN | Sep 23, 2012, 12.52AM IST GANGTOK: Flash flood killed 22 people, triggered a series of landslides and washed away nearly 30km of highway in north Sikkim amid torrential rain Friday evening. Dozens of people on the North Sikkim Highway between Mangan and Chungthang...
Brief description of the emergency and impact Around midnight of 4 August 2012, cloud bursts triggered flash floods and land-slides along the river Assi Ganga and caused loss of life and destruction of houses and infrastructure, in the Uttarkashi district headquarters and surrounding areas. 34...
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July 25 2012 -Tens of thousands of people will be without safe drinking water for months as flooding continues in India’s Assam state, making them vulnerable to life-threatening conditions such as diarrhoea and dysentery. The north-eastern Indian state of Assam is suffering from its worst flooding...
by Stephen Ryan in India The monsoon is part of the yearly cycle of life in India, and has been for centuries. While those in the north west have been praying for rain to come and lower temperatures, the people of Assam have been inundated and driven from their homes. Soil and paddy fields have been...
Paraguay + 4 more
DESTACADOS: PARAGUAY: Las autoridades estiman que aún hay 10,000 familias en necesidad alimentaria. CUBA: Un inusual brote de cólera en la provincia de Granma ha dejado tres muertos. PERÚ: Las autoridades han movilizado más de 92,000 frazadas a las zonas afectadas por las heladas.
Mexico + 4 more
HIGHLIGHTS: PERU: Cold Weather affects about 11,665 people in the Andean region. MEXICO: Hurricane Carlotta affected more than 12,000 families in the state of Oaxaca BOLIVIA: More than 720 confirmed cases of influenza AH1N1.
China + 9 more
(Shanghai/New York, 12 October 2011): Asia and the Pacific’s most experienced emergency responders have gathered in Shanghai, China to look at strengthening disaster response and preparedness. Up to 100 disaster management professionals from 25 countries in Asia and the Pacific as well as...
China's meteorological authority said Tuesday that drought-stricken regions along the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze River will get some relief with the arrival of light rainfalls in the coming three days. Drizzles, moderate rains and thundershowers are forecast to hit central China over...