News headlines for “Natural Disasters”, page 330
Gazan Fishermen Dying to Survive
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Feb 27 (IPS) - The beautiful Mediterranean Sea laps gently onto the white sandy beach near Gaza City's port. Fishing boats dot the beach as fishermen tend to their boats and fix their nets.
All-Out War in Libya Predicted without Further Peace Talks
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) - Libya is teetering on the edge of all-out war, with a brutal stalemate and misery for civilians predicted unless a recent minor diplomatic breakthrough can be built upon.
Sometimes a Single Tree Is More Effective than a Government
- Inter Press Service
BARDIYA, Nepal, Feb 26 (IPS) - Every morning, Raj Kumari Chaudhari walks from her home to the other end of Padnaha village, located in the Bardiya district of mid-west Nepal, to a big mango tree to offer prayers.
Natural Disasters Cost Asia-Pacific 60 Billion Dollars, 6,000 Lives in 2014
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (IPS) - Natural disasters in Asian and Pacific nations cost almost 60 billion dollars and killed 6,000 people in 2014.
A New Forensic Weapon to Track Illegal Ivory Trade
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - The wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC, is deploying a new forensic weapon - DNA testing - to track illegal ivory products responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of endangered elephants in Asia and Africa.
Opinion: Water and the World We Want
- Inter Press Service
HAMILTON, Canada, Feb 25 (IPS) - We have entered a watershed year, a moment critical for humanity.
Analysis: Mega-Cities, Mortality and Migration, A Snapshot of Post-U.N. World Population
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - As the international community marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, one question worthy of some reflection is: Is world population better or worse off demographically since the establishment of the U.N.?
Syria's "Barrel Bombs" Cause Human Devastation, Says Rights Group
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24 (IPS) - The warring parties in the brutal four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 civilians and triggered "the greatest refugee crisis in modern times," continue to break every single pledge held out to the United Nations.
At the Margins of a Hot War, Somalis Are ‘Hanging on by a Thread’
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 24 (IPS) - After twin suicide bombings at a popular Mogadishu hotel last week that killed 25 and wounded 40, news reporters were seen swarming through the city, spotlighting the victims, the assassins, the motives and the official response.
Analysis: Economic Growth Is Not Enough
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 23 (IPS) - Recent new data show a worrying picture of Latin America and the Caribbean. Income poverty reduction has stagnated and the number of poor has risen — for the first time in a decade — according to recent figures from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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