Disaster News
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Scientists have identified a bacterium that could be used in the future to help combat oil spill disasters. The bacterium helps to 'clean up' the slick by ingesting the oil.
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Earlier this week, New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, signed into law nine bills relating to the city’s disaster preparedness.
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A hotel in Secunderabad, a city in Andhra Pradesh state, has collapsed and killed several people. Reports say the building was very old and the walls showed cracks. Several buildings have collapsed in India in recent months, many of them apartments.
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The death toll in Indonesia's 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit the province of Aceh in the island of Sumatra Tuesday has risen to 22 while more than 200 to have been injured.
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Whether you buy top brands or cheap and cheerful, there is a one in five chance that the clothes you are wearing have blood on them. If you didn't know, the United States receives 23 percent of all garment products made in the death traps of Bangladesh.
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One year ago today a cruise liner, the Costa Concordia, sank off the coast of Italy. 32 people died in the tragedy and today the anniversary has been marked.
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New York City's Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport have reopened with limited flights scheduled, but LaGuardia remains closed. New York airports account for one-quarter of the nation’s daily air traffic.
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On the 89th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake, Japan held nationwide earthquake readiness drills as part of their Disaster Prevention Day. The drills were based on the scenario of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake striking northern Tokyo Bay.
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The Interior Secretary of the Philippines Jesse Robredo is missing after the small plane he was traveling on plunged into the sea.
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Arkansas residents are still looking to the skies for relief from drought conditions that plague the state as well as many others.
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A 3-day long media workshop, organized by global environment forum Third Pole in Kathmandu, Nepal from 13-16 October brought together, for the first time, journalists from China, India and Bangladesh to deliberate upon the effects of climate change in Brahmaputra/Yurlung Zangbo river basin
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