Tag Archives : natural disaster

When the Gulf Oil Spill happened, a lot of brouhaha was created and rightly so. The BP executives faced the ire of the media and the environmentalists. But recently the scrutiny of the public has gone down a bit after reports from the media that much of the work that has been done by now to remove the oil from the Ocean is successful to a large extent. [...]

Can you imagine if natural disasters such as cyclones, could be predicted well before they happen? Can you imagine how many lifes and properties coud be safe if such thing could exist? Well, the good news is that a supercomputer developed by NASA can do all those things, and with five days in advance. Thus, it allows the authorities to prepare the [...]

Michael Reynolds, architect, was convened by the United Nations (UN) to spearhead a project to build houses made from tires – which he said can easily be raised up to $ 50 and in just one day. For this, the architect defends a fundraising campaign in the face of large organizations to get the minimum amount of raw material required to bring this [...]

Sudden eruption of Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland has forced Britain to close down its airspace and suspend all flights. It is an unusual condition because the volcano has been spewing loads of ash clouds which is drifting over Europe and many other countries have been forced to suspend flights and shut down airports. Tens of thousands of travelers [...]

On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]