confirmed. Medical examinations on children in the area found that nearly 40% of them suffered from lymph node diseases‚ turbinate congestion and recurrent rhinitis. Seven of the leukaemia victims have since died. Equally heartrending is the parallel story of the villagers’ attempt to stop the ARE operations. It was a saga that ran for more than two decades‚ and it pitted the villagers‚ helped by various civic organisations ‚ against big business and powerful state authorities. An exercise to decommission
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Natural Disasters We have all seen the awful effects of a flood or an earthquake - if we’re lucky only on the news. About 75 percent of the world’s population live in areas affected at least once by earthquake‚ tropical cyclone‚ flood or drought between 1980 and 2000 (Reducing Disaster Risk UNDP report‚ 2005). What causes natural disasters? First we need to get a bit technical. Natural hazards and natural disasters may sound like the same thing but there is a small but vital
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GO125 Natural disasters eARTHQUAKE‚ TYPHOON‚ AND TORNADO Kenneth W. Lingenfelter Instructor Wael Hassian Park University Internet Campus A course paper presented to the School for Arts and Sciences and Distance Learning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Baccalaureate Natural Disasters Park University April 24‚ 2013 Earthquakes‚ typhoons‚ and tornadoes continue to devastate the United States and the entire plant through the activities
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Natural Disasters With the tropical climate and unstable landforms‚ coupled with high population density‚ poverty‚ illiteracy and lack of adequate infrastructure‚ India is one of the most vulnerable developing countries to suffer very often from various Natural Disasters‚ viz. flood‚ cyclone‚ earthquake‚forest fire‚ drought‚ etc. Asia tops the list of casualties due to natural disasters. Space technology plays a crucial role in efficient mitigation of disasters. Communication satellite provides
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many disaster but mast important disaster is natural disaster . natural disaster is the impact of the human causing the wasteage of natural resoures andusing it very widly range becaus of using natural resoures in bulk amount it harmes pur planet as well as our country .the goverment should take action toward those industries which use the natural resoures in wide range. ande give them punishment to them and save our planet from natural disaters. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard
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|.| | [pic]Natural disaster From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For the professional wrestling tag team‚ see The Natural Disasters. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g. flood‚ tornado‚ hurricane‚ volcanic eruption‚ earthquake‚ or landslide) that affects the environment‚ and leads to financial‚ environmental and/or human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster‚ and their resilience
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Earthquakes Natural disasters‚ such as earthquakes‚ hurricanes and cyclones‚ floods‚ and tornadoes are some of the traumatic experiences that may cause posttraumatic stress disorders. This type of disorders and other disaster related psychological problems are prevalent after natural disasters. As a result it is important to analyse those individuals that develop psychological problems especially to prepare and plan interventions both in the short and long term after disaster (Coşkun‚ Coşkun
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INTRODUCTION A natural calamities is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods‚ volcanic eruptions‚ earthquakes‚ tsunamis‚ and other geologic processes. It can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake‚ the severity of which depends on the affected population’s resilience‚ or ability to recover. The earth’s wrath destroys everything in its stride. Usually it is at peace but once it unleashes its
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key points you can use in your essay. Why do Natural disaster occur : here you can include the reasons why natural disaster occurs. the reasons could be both man made and natural. i said man made because there is a theory called "Population theory of Malthus " where its stated that if the balance of population exceeds that of food supply many natural disaster would occur. you can google "Population theory of Malthus" for more details. and the natural ones could be earthquakes on which humans have
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as much horror‚ misery‚ helplessness and doom as the term “Natural Disaster”. A natural disaster is any event of force of nature that is caused by environmental factors that has catastrophic consequences. Every year they not only decimate thousands of people and their properties but end entire blood lines. These calamities wreak havoc in the part of the world it chooses to act upon. Over the centuries various types of natural disasters or “Acts of god” have stolen human lives. Several criterions
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