The huge locust swarm which hit the Horn of Africa in the Spring of 2020, and Cyclone Amphan, which struck the border region of India and Bangladesh in May that year, might not seem, on the face of it, to be connected, but a report released on Wednesday by UN University, the academic and research arm of the UN, shows that there were connected underlying causes: greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, which are affecting the environment in unpredictable ways, and a lack of sufficient disaster risk management.
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‘It’s connected to you’: Shared causes fuel surge in disasters
From Arctic heat and wildfires to Texas cold-weather power outages and Amazon deforestation, threats around the world that may seem unrelated are increasingly compounding each other, United Nations researchers said in a report released Wednesday.
The underlying causes of the rising risks – from climate change to lack of cooperation among governments and ignoring the value of nature in economic decision-making – are common across many of them, researchers said.
At least 50 missing after boat capsizes on Brahmaputra in Assam
Jorhat district police chief Ankur Jain said that the police and the disaster management personnel located the capsized boat about 350 metres from the riverbank.
“We have rescued around 20 people on board the boar from various places downstream. However, around 50 people are missing till late evening,” he told the media adding that the searches for the missing people are on.
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