catastrophes

Embrace technology-driven medical techniques to prevent health catastrophes: Expert, Health News, ET HealthWorld

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Embrace technology-driven medical techniques to prevent health catastrophes: Expert, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Thiruvananthapuram: India will face a tsunami of chronic diseases such as cancer due to globalisation, growing economy, ageing population and changing lifestyle, warns a leading oncologist, making it imperative for the country to embrace technology-driven medical techniques to prevent health catastrophes in an effective and affordable manner. Cancer vaccines for prevention and treatment, expansion of … Read more

Yemen Peace Process Falters as Fighting Intensifies and Hunger Spreads

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Yemen Peace Process Falters as Fighting Intensifies and Hunger Spreads

Fighting in Yemen has intensified in recent days, threatening to unspool a stalled peace process and deepen what aid groups call the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. Clashes have escalated around the port city of Hodeidah, where the Saudi-backed government and Iran-supported Houthi rebels struck a cease-fire deal in late 2018 that was meant to pave … Read more

Hurricane Delta Bears Down on Mexico

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Hurricane Delta Bears Down on Mexico

MEXICO CITY—Mexico began evacuating residents and tourists in and around the Caribbean resort of Cancún ahead of the expected arrival of Hurricane Delta, which strengthened rapidly Tuesday as it moved toward the Yucatán Peninsula. The U.S. National Hurricane Center upgraded Delta to a Category 4 storm at 11:20 a.m. ET, with maximum sustained winds of … Read more

Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry

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Venezuela’s Food Chain Is Breaking, and Millions Go Hungry

Ana Nuñez, a 62-year-old retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her meals often consist of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as arepas. Even when she has money to buy groceries in the city of Maracaibo’s teeming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell garbage, like animal hides and rotten … Read more

CDC Chief Predicts Covid-19 Vaccine May Not Be Generally Available Until Next Summer

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CDC Chief Predicts Covid-19 Vaccine May Not Be Generally Available Until Next Summer

A top Trump administration health official predicted that a Covid-19 vaccine may not be available to the general public until next summer as the daily number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. climbed to roughly 40,000. The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Redfield, said he believes a vaccine … Read more

At Least 50 Gold Miners Die in East Congo, Adding to String of Deadly Accidents

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At Least 50 Gold Miners Die in East Congo, Adding to String of Deadly Accidents

At least 50 miners died after flooding at an unregulated gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said, adding to the deadly tally of recent accidents at illegal and small-scale mines around the developing world. The mainly young victims were working at a large, unregulated mine in the east of the country Friday … Read more

Fire Breaks Out at Beirut Port, One Month After Explosion

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Fire Breaks Out at Beirut Port, One Month After Explosion

BEIRUT—A large fire broke out Thursday at Lebanon’s main port, near the site of last month’s massive explosion that devastated a swath of the country’s capital and killed nearly 200 people. Lebanese living in the vicinity of the port rushed to get away as firefighters tackled the blaze at a warehouse. The army said the … Read more

How Koalas Survive Forest Fires: Australia Is Global Test for Animals

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How Koalas Survive Forest Fires: Australia Is Global Test for Animals

SYDNEY—Researchers are deploying heat-seeking drones and studying the chemistry of leaves to determine how creatures like the koala can survive in a burned landscape, a new effort to understand the effects of devastating wildfires across the globe. About 73,000 square miles were burned in Australia’s most recent fire season, an area bigger than Washington state, … Read more

After the Beirut Explosion, Volunteers Step Up to Do What the Government Can’t

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After the Beirut Explosion, Volunteers Step Up to Do What the Government Can’t

BEIRUT—Hours after a catastrophic blast ripped through Beirut on Aug. 4, hundreds of volunteers fanned out across devastated neighborhoods, caring for the wounded, assessing damaged buildings and clearing rubble. The people of Lebanon had little faith their government could rise to the challenge. Lebanon’s state institutions have failed the country—before and after the blast. The tragedy was … Read more

Flooding Again Pounds China’s Three Gorges Dam

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Flooding Again Pounds China’s Three Gorges Dam

Heavy rains that again swelled the Yangtze River are expected to hit the Three Gorges Dam with its largest-ever flood this week. The new rainfall at a time when summer rains usually have subsided threatens to prolong a crisis that has already caused billions of dollars in economic losses and displaced millions of people. In … Read more