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Natural Disasters: Get To Know Them All

By   /  May 23, 2012  /  Blog  /  No Comments

Winter storm

INTRODUCTION: Years ago, whenever there are changes in the normal weather pattern, we simply ignore the occurrence of a particular phenomenon. We were all confident that these are normal happenings and will just subside. However, at the moment, at this very present age, these phenomena are beginning to become more and more unpredictable. People often [...]

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Severe Snowstorm and Drought in China

By   /  March 7, 2012  /  News  /  No Comments

The Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China’s Qinghai Province has been experiencing an extreme weather since January. 40 hectares of pasture were frozen and over  35,000 livestock did not live long from the extreme cold weather. Gande county in the Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is one of the regions that was greatly hit by [...]

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East Africa’s Drought: The Avoidable Disaster

By   /  January 29, 2012  /  News  /  No Comments

Report says that ten thousands of lives could have been saved if only agencies and governments had responded to the warnings and were quick in taking actions to the clear warning signs that a disaster was in the making. In a statistics compiled by DfID or the Department for International Development, around 50,000- 100,000 people, in [...]

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