2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Africa
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Under the axe
Forest areas continue to decrease though plantations are slowing down the rate of net loss
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Tax burden on HIV patients
A new tax introduced by the newly formed East Africa Customs Union (eacu) will increase the prices of hiv drugs in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, accentuating the sufferings of the most vulnerable
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Nobel prize for African environmentalist
Wangari Maathai, Kenya's popular envi ronmental acti vist who is also the country's deputy environment minister, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting poverty by trying to save Africa's
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Killing fields
AIDS threatens subsistence agriculture in Africa
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Bok review: Heady stuff
Conservation and Society by Kamaljit S Bawa
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Bytes
marine boom: An unprecedented census of marine life is reporting three new fish species a week on an average. In the first interim report of the census, an international team of scientists predicts
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REACH Africa s bane
Thabo Mbeki, President, African National Congress, expressed his concerns to the eu regarding its Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (reach) legislation. reach is designed to
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The Birds II
This story reminds one of the Hollywood blockbuster of the 1960s that changed the way many people looked at birds. Gigantic flocks of the quela quela (Quelea quelea) bird have attacked rice and maize
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Hectic parleys
The G 20 bloc of nations faces new challenges
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Song without succour
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