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East Christchurch 'neglected' in earthquake recovery
Mar 5 2011, Byron Clark

The devastating earthquake that hit the New Zealand city of Christchurch last month has disproportionately affected the east of the city, which also happens to be home to the city’s poorest residents. A newsletter written by Peter Hyde has been...

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Life after the quake
Byron Clark, Christchurch
A week after the big quake life was far from back to normal. While on the day of the quake I had cycled over to visit friends in the northern suburb of Casebrook, the...
Politics & Society, Christchurch earthquake, natural disaster, Politics & Society
made popular Mar 3 2011
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Mass exodus from quake damaged city
Byron Clark, Christchurch
50,000 people have departed from Christchurch Airport since the 6.3 earthquake last Tuesday that left a third of the central city buildings either destroyed or...
Politics & Society, Christchurch earthquake, natural disaster, Politics & Society
made popular Feb 28 2011
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Incompetence And Bureaucracy
Celso Camargo, Campinas
Today I met a new neighborhood in my city. The name of the neighborhood is Santa Teresa. When I say new, I do not mean new to me, but this neighborhood was the last...
Politics & Society, Brazil, Rio, São Paulo
made popular Jan 24 2011
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The Canterbury Earthquke - one person's story
Byron Clark, Christchurch
The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Canterbury, in New Zealand’s south island on Saturday has made international headlines. Rather than rehashing what’s...
Politics & Society, canterbury earthquake, christchurch earthquake
made popular Sep 6 2010
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Floods worst disaster in Pak history: Qureshi
Maqsood, Islamabad
Terming the floods in Pakistan as “worst humanitarian crisis”, the country’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has called on the world community to come its...
Environment, pakistan floods, floods in Pakistan
made popular Sep 1 2010
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Floods in south Sudan leave nearly 60,000 homeless
Dom, London
Floods have displaced nearly 60,000 people in the last month in south Sudan with many at risk of malaria and other diseases, the semi-autonomous region’s...
Politics & Society, floods, Floods in south Sudan
made popular Sep 1 2010
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Heavy rain and mudslides bring more misery to China
Sanwali, Shimla
Heavy rain across western China has caused more mudslides and flooding, killing at least 29 people and trapping more than 10,500 in the latest natural disasters to hit...
Environment, Heavy rain, mudslides
made popular Aug 13 2010
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The Taliban Demand That Desperate Pakistan Refuse Western Flood Aid
Incognito, Atlanta
There is nothing more vile than playing politics with people’s lives. The poor Pakistanis are experiencing a natural disaster of monumental proportions, millions...
Politics & Society, Pakistan, floods
made popular Aug 11 2010
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Mudslides devastate Chinese town, 127 killed
Sanwali, Shimla
Mudslides engulfed a town in northwest China on Sunday, killing at least 127 people and leaving nearly 2000 residents missing as rescue teams dug out crushed homes and...
Politics & Society, Mudslides, Zhouqu County
made popular Aug 9 2010
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Floods and landslides kill 53 in southwest China
Feng, Shanghai
The death toll was announced after rescuers found nearly 20 bodies in the aftermath of torrential rains between May 31 and June 2, the local flood control office...
Politics & Society, Landslides, China Landslide
made popular Jun 7 2010
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Guatemala City residents fearful after factory disappears into sinkhole
Rachel, Birmingham
Guatemala City residents have been warned to prepare for further sinkholes after a natural disaster swallowed an entire crossroads and a three-storey textile factory...
Environment, Guatemala City, Guatemala sinkhole
made popular Jun 4 2010
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Cyclone Phet weakens, warning remains along western coast
Ankita, Thane
Tropical cyclone Phet in the Arabian Sea is about 1100 km from Nalia in Kutch and is weakening as coastal areas of Gujarat received light to medium rainfall under its...
Environment, Tropical cyclone Phet, Cyclonic storm over Arabian Sea
made popular Jun 3 2010
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Floods Leave Behind 88 Deaths in Northern and Central Provinces
Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
88 deaths have been confirmed in the last week’s floods in Afghanistan’s central and Northern provinces. Head of the department for Natural Disaster Management,...
Environment, Flash floods, Natural Disaster
made popular May 8 2010
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China: Qinghai Earthquake 2010
Emily Emily, Australia
An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale has struck Yushu County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province at 7:45am today. According to the...
Politics & Society, China earthquake, Qinghai
made popular Apr 15 2010
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The Haitian Tragedy Brings The World Together
Incognito, Atlanta
It’s heartbreaking to witness what has happened to the Haitians. As if they already hadn’t suffered enough. Haiti is the poorest nation in the western...
Politics & Society, Haiti, earthquake
made popular Jan 14 2010
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Asia marks tsunami's fifth anniversary with prayers
Sukhmani, shimla
Thousands of saffron-robed Thai monks chanted and prayed for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Saturday as Asia marked the fifth anniversary of one of...
Politics & Society, Asia Tsunami 2004, Andaman Sea
made popular Dec 26 2009
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Afghanistan and the Global Climate Change
Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
The phenomenon of Global Warming has brought the world together in Copenhagen to face its common enemy that it has created itself. This phenomenon takes me directly to...
Entertainment, Climate change, Pollution Copenhagen Summit
made popular Dec 11 2009
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Up to 4,000 buried in Indonesian quake rubble
Halim, Jakarta
Local disaster management officials put the death toll from the quakes at 535. Earlier U.N. figures that put the death toll at 1,100 were just estimates, said...
Environment, rubble, earthquake
made popular Oct 3 2009
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Typhoon batters northern Philippines
Nicholas, Liverpool
A powerful typhoon Saturday battered extreme northern Philippines with forceful winds and heavy rains, but spared the capital and surrounding areas still recovering...
Environment, Typhoon Parma, typhoon
made popular Oct 3 2009
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Sitting on the edge of natural disaster
Kevin, Columbia
The Chaiten volcano in northern Patagonia, Chile, had been dormant for 9,500 years under its obsidian dome before erupting spectacularly and without warning one year...
Environment, Natural disaster, Volcano
made popular May 29 2009
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Flood claims 50 lives in Afghanistan
Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
Due to severe flooding and resultant deaths and damages the department of Natural Disaster Management has imposed emergency in some parts of the country. The death...
Environment, Floods in Afghanistan, Flood
made popular May 6 2009
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Powerful Italian quake kills many
Sanwali, Shimla
At least 50 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that struck central Italy, Italian officials say. Five children are said to be among the dead and many...
Politics & Society, Earthquake, Natural disaster, Death
made popular Apr 6 2009
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New Zealand to aid Fiji despite sanctions
Byron Clark, Christchurch
New Zealand will provide up to $100,000 in aid to Fiji in the wake of floods that have left seven people dead. However the money will go directly to the Red Cross...
Politics & Society, Flood, Natural disaster
made popular Jan 13 2009
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Early warning systems in disaster risk management
Narayan Poudel, kathmandu
Everyday, people around the globe are threatened by storms, floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and other natural hazards and suffer because of their social,...
Environment, Early warning systems, disaster risk management
made popular Dec 10 2008
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Awareness on climate change
Nikhil, Shimla
Climate change is one of the most critical global challenges of our time.It has become a very serious issue world over.Recent events have emphatically demonstrated our...
Environment, climate change, global challenge, erosion
made popular Aug 13 2008
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Politics Before People- Another Burmese Disaster
Incognito, Atlanta
As if the poor Burmese people hadn’t already suffered enough under a brutally oppressive, communist regime, they suffered further loss and damage at a...
Cyclone, Natural Disaster, Burma
made popular May 8 2008
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