41. Science And The Environment Bulletin: Natural Disasters On The Rise drought is Canada s most expensive natural disaster in a cumulative sense.Over 40 severe events have occurred over the past 200 years in Western Canada http://www.ec.gc.ca/science/sandefeb03/a3_e.html

Natural Disasters on the Rise Over the past decade, Canada has experienced many of its largest natural disasters, and experts believe that even bigger and more devastating ones are inevitable. While geophysical disasters, such as earthquakes, have remained relatively constant in this country over the past 50 years, weather-related disasters have skyrocketed. Climate change is projected to exacerbate this situation in future, as it is expected to increase the frequency and severity of some extreme weather events. To examine this trend and help determine ways to mitigate its risks, a team of public- and private-sector partners, led by Environment Canada's Meteorological Service of Canada, formed the Canadian Natural Hazards Assessment Project. Key players include the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness, the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, private insurance companies, emergency responders, academics, sociologists, and engineers. After more than three years of collecting and analyzing data, the project team has written 20 technical papers on the subject, most of which will be published early this year in a special edition of the Journal of Natural Hazards . Also scheduled for release by this spring is a summary document for decision makers and members of the public. The team's findings indicate that a combination of factors are behind this upward trend, not only in Canada, but also around the world. Chief among these is the fact that human beings have greatly increased their vulnerability to suffering some degree of loss from a hazardous event. This has occurred due to the many economic, socio-demographic, and technological changes that have taken place over the past 50 years.

42. Natural Disasters This unit covers the special interest of natural disasters and is linked to anovel which How have people contributed to the severity of drought? http://scs.une.edu.au/TalentEd/EdSupport/Disasters.htm

TalentEd UNIT: NATURAL DISASTERS L.M. Horder, Sydney This Literature/Special Interest Unit was devised to cater for the special needs of the Year 7/8 composite gifted and talented class at a junior secondary Catholic school in Sydney. In the class there are 17 boys who have been selected for the Extended Studies Program, which is a pull-out program in the school. RATIONALE This unit is one of three I devised for my term working as the teacher of the year 7 composite gifted and talented class. Each of the other three terms are taken by different teachers as the Co-ordinator believes this utilises the teachers' skills and interests best. Before the term begins the units of work are discussed with the other teachers involved in the program and a general overview given to the whole staff. OBJECTIVES 1. To broaden the students' experiences by exposing them to the realities of past and possibly future natural disasters. 2. To increase the students' factual knowledge of the causes, actualities and consequences of natural disasters. 3. To appreciate the broad spectrum of knowledge across a range of subject areas.

43. United Nations - OCHA IRIN Africa News ASMARA, 27 Jul 2005 (IRIN) Of all the natural disasters that strike communitiesand environments, a drought can be the most devastating. http://www.irinnews.org/frontpage.asp?SelectTheme=Natural_Disasters

44. United Nations - OCHA IRIN Web Special Disaster Reduction Individual natural disasters often create humanitarian emergencies that are drought Cracked earth from lack of water and baked from the heat of the sun http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/DR/47332.asp

top Your browser does not support script Wednesday 21 September 2005 Search Disaster Reduction and the human cost of disaster IRIN Web Special Humanitarian emergencies caused by natural disasters Forest Fires are another form of natural disaster but which can also cause millions of dollars of damage and destroy homes in a few hours or days. Credit: WMO Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja, Indonesia’s director of human rights, humanitarian and socio-cultural affairs, was visibly shaken when he described to IRIN his country’s initial reaction to the tsunami on the morning of 26 December 2004. “We were all immediately in a state of shock. So very shocked by this calamity beyond imagination,” he said. Puja described how thousands of police and military personnel also were killed as the wave swept through Aceh, washing away helicopters, vehicles, weapons and whole barracks. “They just disappeared,” he said, “and we were all scrambling to help the survivors. Even on the first day lines and lines of trucks were waiting at Jakarta airport with assistance - so much spontaneous reaction from ordinary people. On the second day, the prayers were attended by everyone - Christians, Muslims and Buddhists.” POLLUTION: Years of poorly regulated emissions from modern industry have contributed to climate change and less predictable weather paterns. Experts say the main cause of increased natural disasters is climate change

45. Natural Disasters - Drought - Taxation natural disasters + natural resources Pests/Feral Animals Salinity Soil Vegetation Tax relief available for people affected by the drought http://www.agriculture.gov.au/nrm4.cfm?display2=Natural Disasters&display3=Droug

46. Natural Disasters - Drought - Contacts natural disasters + natural resources Pests/Feral Animals Salinity This NSW Agriculture page gives you the drought hotline numbers and other http://www.agriculture.gov.au/nrm4.cfm?display2=Natural Disasters&display3=Droug

47. Natural Disasters ALMANAC OF disasters Forces of Nature. Avalanche, Blizzard, drought, Dust Storm.Earthquake, Fire, Flood, Freezing Rain http://mccants.anderson5.net/library/natural_disaster.htm

Natural Disasters ALMANAC OF DISASTERS Forces of Nature Avalanche Blizzard ... Waterspout Avalanche NOVA Online Avalanche! Avalanche.org CyberSpace Avalanche Center (CSAC) - Comprehensive global snow avalanche information Utah Avalanche Service Home Page ... Avalanche Dogs Blizzards Weather Ice and Snow Blizzard Attack Home Page NWS Norman, Oklahoma - Severe Weather Safety Guide : Winter Storm/Blizzard All About Snow Discovery.com, Extreme Snow weather.com - encyclopedia - winter - Blizzards Blizzards of 1996 ... Blizzard : Snowbound Blizzards : What makes blizzards dangerous? Drought USGS, Drought Watch - Eastern U.S. Discovery.com News Drought Drought Monitor Drought A Paleo Perspective Home Page ... S.C. Drought Information Center Dust Storm Dust Storms and their Damage NASA Goddard Institute Desert Dust, Dust Storms and Climate China’s Dust Storms Raise Fears of Impending Catastrophe CNN.com - African dust storms send germs to America - June 18, 2001 ... Geoindicator Dust storm magnitude, duration, and frequency Earthquakes USGS Earthquake Hazards Program-Home Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions Understanding Earthquakes Savage Earth Restless Planet ... Natural Hazards Slides Vol. 2 - Earthquake Events Earthquake in San Francisco, April 18, 1906

48. Natural Disasters natural disasters, Definition Calamity caused by nature resulting in loss of life Multiple disasters. drought A drought is a period of abnormally dry http://hsmedia.nksd.net/project_links/natural_disasters/Drought & Dust Storms.ht

Natural Disasters Definition: Calamity caused by nature resulting in loss of life or destruction of property. http://www.un.org/popin/ Tsunami Hurricane Flood ... Multiple Disasters Drought: A drought is a period of abnormally dry weather which persists long enough to produce a serious hydrologic imbalance (for example crop damage, water supply shortage, etc.) The severity of the drought depends upon the degree of moisture deficiency, the duration and the size of the affected area. http://205.156.54.206/om/drought.htm Informative Sites: http://205.156.54.206/om/drought.htm http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe/drought.html http://www.fsa.usda.gov/drought/links.htm http://www.unisdr.org/ndr/drought.htm#t1

49. Natural Disasters Learn English Magazine - British Council Another kind of natural disaster is a drought. This happens when there is nowater, when it doesn’t rain for a long time and rivers dry up. http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/magazine/magazine_home_disasters.html

This week in LearnEnglish... Natural disasters by John Russell Double-click on any word in the text to get its definition from Cambridge Dictionaries Online . The definition will open in a new window. Natural disasters take many different forms and can happen without warning. Earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, drought, typhoons and hurricanes are all natural disasters. Picture by Damien Hazell The recent earthquake of 26th December 2004 has resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in living memory. It was a massive underwater quake and occurred in the Indian Ocean. This caused a huge tidal-wave (a tsunami) to cross the Indian Ocean. It destroyed coastlines, communities and brought death and destruction to many people. Thousands of people were killed as the wave travelled miles across the ocean to distant beaches. Whole families were swept out to sea or drowned as the sea invaded the land. The survivors need fresh water, food and shelter as well as medical help. People from all over the world are giving lots of money so that towns and villages can be rebuilt. Why do earthquakes happen?

50. Natural Disasters Article Learnenglish What other type of natural disaster often results from drought? Where were manyof the people who were killed by the earthquake that destroyed the Chinese http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/magazine/natural_disasters.html

Natural disasters ON-LINE - NATURAL DISASTERS AND CATASTROPHES AND SOME RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS is a website which draws together a broad range of data covering a variety of subjects with a developing emphasis on the causes, consequences and costs of natural disasters and catastrophes. Here we link to an article, SOME NATURAL DISASTERS and/or CATASTROPHES, which lists facts and relates stories about the following types of natural disasters and catastrophes: avalanches, diseases, drought, earthquakes, environmental disasters, flooding, locusts, storms, volcanic activity and wild fires. Read the texts , and try to answers the following questions: What type of disaster: Claimed up to 500,000 lives in Bangladesh? Mostly affects Saharan Africa and the Middle East? Claimed as many as 5 million lives in the 1920s?

51. Web-and-Flow Hotlist: Australian Natural Disasters Australian natural disasters. by Linda Macaulay Australia State of theEnvironment Report 2001 drought relief payments. http://ptc.nsw.edu.au/members/lmacaula/disasters/hotlist.htm

Australian natural disasters by Linda Macaulay Introduction rubric conclusion ... Earthquakes Introduction Here are a few links to get you started on your Internet research. Please look at the Disasters - General section. It has sites like the Bureau of Meteorology, which you can probably use for your Australian disaster topics. Internet Links Disasters - General Emergency Management Australia Definitions, case studies and emergency plans for various major natural catastrophes in Australia. Queensland Government site Check the side-bar for various disasters, clicking on ‘History’ and ‘What you should do’ for ideas for general disaster management strategies. Macquarie Uni - Natural Hazards Quarterly Brief natural hazards database. NOVA Online - Disasters Excellent graphics and general information (non-Australian). Bureau of Transport Economics Detailed analysis of the economic costs of natural disasters to the Australian economy. Uniserve Bushfires Yarra Plenty Regional Library Excellent links to info. on major Australian bushfires, including prevention and mapping tools. A.N.U.

52. Floods, Drought, Poverty And Science natural disasters (principally floods and droughts) are often the triggeringmechanism If the principles of natural disaster reduction particularly http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2001/september/floods.htm

Feature Home Events Jobs Funding ... Archives Floods, droughts, poverty and science W.J.R. Alexander, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Pretoria. Poverty is tearing Africa apart. It is the root cause of internal unrest, cross-border conflicts, land redistribution problems and political instability in many African countries. Natural disasters (principally floods and droughts) are often the triggering mechanism for the downward spiral of impoverishment and eventually to anarchy if not brought under control. Is there anything that scientists can do to check and reverse this trend? Budapest Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge A combined UNESCO/ICSU World Conference on Science was held in Budapest, Hungary from 26 June to 1 July 1999. The following are extracts from the Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge produced by the Conference. We seek active collaboration across all fields of scientific endeavour, i.e. the natural sciences such as the physical, earth and biological sciences, the biomedical and engineering sciences, and the social and human sciences Greater interdisciplinary efforts are a prerequisite for dealing with ethical, social, cultural, environmental, gender, economic, and health issues What distinguishes the poor (be they people or countries) from the rich is not only that they have fewer assets, but also that they are largely excluded from the creation and benefits of scientific knowledge The declaration considered that:

53. Welcome To The Pacific Disaster Center(PDC) USGS Water Use UNL National drought Mitigation Center USDA drought Latin American Disaster Information Center (CRID) OAS natural Hazards Project http://www.pdc.org/iweb3/disasters.jsp

54. Drought + War = Disaster drought + War = Disaster. By Brian Carnell. Wednesday, February 28, 2001 But natural disasters do not have to lead to famine. http://www.overpopulation.com/articles/2001/000012.html

Home Archives Drought + War = Disaster Overpopulation.Com Guests Logon Account Signup Drought + War = Disaster By Brian Carnell Wednesday, February 28, 2001 Since 1995, the number of people living in areas that the World Food Program has designated as desperately in need of food aid has soared from only 4 million people five years ago to a near-record 60 million people today. What's been happening? The World Food Program blames the increase in near-famine conditions on a series of natural disasters, primarily floods and earthquakes. WFP director Catherine Bertine told the Boston GLobe, "There are so many countries affected. It's as if Mother Nature took a paint brush and painted a whole huge swath of the world with drought." To be sure, there has been a good deal of drought affection Africa and Asia. Part of the blame goes to the erratic weather patterns that are a result of the El Nino/La Nina event, and of course part of the answer is that since recorded time there have always been natural disasters. But natural disasters do not have to lead to famine. Jean Francois Vidal of Action Against Hunger puts the causation of hunger quite succinctly. "Where there is drought there is not necessarily famine," Vidal told the Globe, "But where there is drought and civil war, there is disaster."

55. Natural Disaster There are a number natural disasters that may affect a society drought, floods,tropical cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis (giant sea waves), and volcanoes. http://www.tulane.edu/~panda2/FS/Coping strategy/disasters/natural.htm

56. CBS NEWS Disaster Links Disaster Links Guide for journalists to find information on disasters. USDA natural Resources Conservation Service NOAA s drought Info. Earthquakes http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml

CBS NEWS DISASTER LINKS contains updated websites for quick reference. Please email Dan Dubno at CBS News Special Events if there is an important link omitted or if a link is broken. 2004 TSUNAMI CATASTROPHE CBS News Interactive: Tsunami CBS News Video Archive: Tsunami CBS News Photo Essay: Tsunami Pacific Disaster Center: Great Sumatra Earthquake ... Wikipedia: 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake GENERAL TSUNAMI INFORMATION NOAA Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Tsunami and Earthquake Links Pacific Disaster Center NGDC: Tsunami Data ... Pacific Tsunami Museum HOW TO HELP Action Against Hunger American Red Cross via Amazon American Jewish World Service ... World Food Programme (UN) DISASTERS-COMPREHENSIVE CBS News Interactive: N atural Disasters US Government Office of Homeland Security DHS Disaster Help Emergency Planning and Prevention Emergency Response and Recovery ... Ready.Gov: Useful Sites Other ESRI-Hazards Disasterrelief.org Relief Web Incident.com Events Map ... Emergency-Management.net AIRPLANE DISASTERS Air Disaster.com

57. Disaster News: Severe Weather, Natural Disasters, FEMA & More At HeadlineSpot.co natural disasters Severe Weather Transportation disasters Oil Spills drought Monitor National drought Mitigation Center NOAA s drought http://www.headlinespot.com/subject/disaster/

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58. Children At Risk Issue drought and natural disasters can have devastating effects on communities andeconomies, threatening the lives of many people, especially children, http://www.viva.org/?page_id=50&risk_id=RGN

59. Zimbabwe Natural Disasters News - Media Monitoring Service By EIN News Zimbabwe natural disasters News. Service for global professionals. Recent figuresshowed that drought conditions in Zimbabwe had reduced the maize http://www.einnews.com/zimbabwe/newsfeed-ZimbabweNaturalDisasters

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60. Congos Natural Disasters News - Media Monitoring Service By EIN News Constantly updated news and information about Congos natural disasters. and the return natural disasters, such as floods, drought, and earthquakes, http://www.einnews.com/congos/newsfeed-CongosNaturalDisasters

Congos News: Natural Disasters EIN Home Congos Home Natural Disasters Pictures of the Day abcnews.go.com: British Soldiers Free Two From Iraq Jail Using Tank Iraq News Basra News United Kingdom News chron.com: New Orleans Reopening on Hold As More Flooding Is Feared Hurricane Katrina News Louisiana News Ray Nagin News dailystar.com.lb: Modest Turnout for Historic Afghan Vote Afghanistan News Afghanistan Elections News chinadaily.com.cn: Al-Qaida Takes Blame for London Blasts London Bombings News United Kingdom News voanews.com: Rice Expects Referral of Iran Nuclear Issue to UN Security Council Iran News Iran - UN Relations News cnn.com: Rita Nearing Hurricane Status Florida News thanhniennews.com: Indonesia on High Alert Over Bird Flu Threat Indonesia News bbc.co.uk: Ex-Iraqi Minister Facing Arrest for Alleged Theft of $1 Billion Iraq News usatoday.com: Holocaust Survivor, Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Dies United States News Austria News Take This Poll Have you become more afraid of flying as a result of the recent plane crashes? (Sep. 5, 2005) Yes.

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