The flood disaster in Pakistan is worsening with 20 million people or 12 percent of the population affected, according to the latest government estimates.
Related Links Report/Articles Kuensel Online 2015/04/08The windstorm damaged 815 homes, 89 government structures, and 15 public infrastructures across 52 gewogs in nine dzongkhags.
The highest tide in decades has submerged more than 85% of Venice in floodwaters, causing catastrophic damage to the historic Italian lagoon city and its monuments.
Verizon's cybersecurity research has consistently found that since 2009 organizations suffering a data breach showed lower than normal compliance with a number of PCI DSS controls.
Damage to health facilities: In 7 communities, the health facilities have been completely destroyed, while in another 10 districts the damage has been evaluated at between 30% and 90.
A study in 2017 by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health showed that more than 25.5 million people who died in 2015 experienced serious health-related suffering.
According to official reports, as of 17 July 2016, over 1,350 people have been evacuated and over 735 houses have been damaged in North Konawe Regency Southeast Sulawesi province, Sulawesi island.
The purpose of IYDD is to raise the recognition of the international community concerning countries which suffer from serious drought and desertification, especially the people who take damage from desertification in Africa.
By building the seaweed farms in places that suffer from nutrient pollution or even in marine dead areas, the growing algae could potentially remove the excess nutrients from the water, and thereby decontaminating it.
(What are they saying now when they discover that the lack of concrete to protect Japan's fishing ports has done very severe damage to the welfare of the many good people in some of those ports?).
Related Links Report/Articles AFP 2013/04/24Eleven people are confirmed dead and three are missing after flash floods swept through part of northern Afghanistan, damaging almost a thousand homes, an official said Wednesday 24 April 2013.
In Ituango, Colombia around 400 people from impacted communities stood firm on their right of freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration by taking to the streets of the city, occupying the public space, after being surprised by police who tried to prevent their planned demonstration against the Hidroituango hydroelectric plant and the expansion of fossil fuels.
Heinz Hödl, also from the Caritas delegation, said,“Inspired by the words of Pope Francis, together with hundreds of thousands of people from all around the world, we called on governments to consider the moral dimension of political decisions in relation to climate change and to put the poorest communities who are suffering the most from climate change impacts at the centre of the debate in Paris,” he explained.
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