• Is climate change causing more natural disasters? (weforum.org)
  • The relationship between natural disasters and communicable diseases is frequently misconstrued. (cdc.gov)
  • The risk for outbreaks is often presumed to be very high in the chaos that follows natural disasters, a fear likely derived from a perceived association between dead bodies and epidemics. (cdc.gov)
  • Natural disasters are catastrophic events with atmospheric, geologic, and hydrologic origins. (cdc.gov)
  • Natural disasters can have rapid or slow onset, with serious health, social, and economic consequences. (cdc.gov)
  • During the past 2 decades, natural disasters have killed millions of people, adversely affected the lives of at least 1 billion more people, and resulted in substantial economic damages ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Deaths associated with natural disasters, particularly rapid-onset disasters, are overwhelmingly due to blunt trauma, crush-related injuries, or drowning. (cdc.gov)
  • Deaths from communicable diseases after natural disasters are less common. (cdc.gov)
  • The sudden presence of large numbers of dead bodies in the disaster-affected area may heighten concerns of disease outbreaks ( 2 ), despite the absence of evidence that dead bodies pose a risk for epidemics after natural disasters ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Although outbreaks after flooding ( 11 ) have been better documented than those after earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or tsunamis ( 12 ), natural disasters (regardless of type) that do not result in population displacement are rarely associated with outbreaks ( 8 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Historically, the large-scale displacement of populations as a result of natural disasters is not common ( 8 ), which likely contributes to the low risk for outbreaks overall and to the variability in risk among disasters of different types. (cdc.gov)
  • Conflict and natural disasters have devastating health consequences. (who.int)
  • Representatives from over 160 of the world's leading organizations, spanning business, finance, accounting, conservation, academia, and policy, meet today in London to celebrate the culmination of a unique collaborative project that has produced the first global Natural Capital Protocol. (wbcsd.org)
  • In 2001, the Chinese Tibetan epic King Gesar, the world's longest epic, was listed by UNESCO in the world millennium memorials. (china.org.cn)
  • Airline says it has made history by operating world's first commercial flight using fuel made from natural gas, creating a potential new source of aircraft fuel for the future. (mbtmag.com)
  • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Qatar Airways says it has made history by operating the world's first commercial flight using fuel made from natural gas, creating a potential new source of aircraft fuel for the future. (mbtmag.com)
  • The tiny Persian Gulf state of Qatar has some of the world's largest reserves of natural gas. (mbtmag.com)
  • As the rate of global development accelerates, these outstanding sites become ever more valuable to society, providing refuges for highly endangered species and safeguarding the world's most precious natural treasures. (unesco.org)
  • Over its more than 10 years of existence, the RRF has provided over US$1,200,000 of emergency support to more than 25 World Heritage properties and 5 sites inscribed on Tentative Lists in more than 25 States Parties, contributing to the protection of over 30 million hectares of the world's most valuable natural heritage. (unesco.org)
  • At the heart of these directives is the EU's Natura 2000 network of protected areas, the largest of its kind in the world. (europa.eu)
  • Many Natura 2000 protected areas are already connected by natural and semi-natural landscapes that provide ecosystem services, such as pollination, soil fertility, flood control and recreation, and are essential for climate change mitigation and disaster risk. (europa.eu)
  • Percent of forest loss between 2000 and 2012 in Natural World Heritage Sites. (yale.edu)
  • The UK only has half of its natural biodiversity left. (nhm.ac.uk)
  • Natural capital brings together the environmental strands of climate, water, energy, biodiversity and waste into a uniform strategic approach. (wbcsd.org)
  • If adopted at scale, the Natural Capital Protocol has the power to revolutionize the way that businesses evaluate their operations and make decisions, helping them to reduce pollution, protect biodiversity, and limit the impacts of climate change, while simultaneously producing positive business results, safeguarding operations and supporting efforts to create a more sustainable world. (wbcsd.org)
  • Response to time sensitive opportunities that will significantly strengthen the biodiversity status of a threatened natural World Heritage property. (unesco.org)
  • Kenya has 7 cultural and natural sites that are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites because of their importance in cultural, historical, natural and archaeological value. (magicalkenya.com)
  • The "Historic Center of Macao," China's only 2005 submission for World Heritage listing, was approved at the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). (china.org.cn)
  • When UNESCO named it a Natural World Heritage Site in 1981, it praised the reef not just for "superlative natural beauty above and below the water," but also as "one of a few living structures visible from space. (yale.edu)
  • Launched in 2006, the RRF is a partnership between Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, with past and present donor support provided by the United Nations Foundation and the Fondation Franz Weber. (unesco.org)
  • Watch this short film from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to learn about how important it is to value your company's relationship with nature. (wbcsd.org)
  • Representing the complexity of the natural world in global climate models is critical to enhancing models' predictive capabilities. (ornl.gov)
  • Turkish national wrestler Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu has bagged the gold medal in the women's 68-kilogram category at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships held in the Serbian capital Belgrade. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Over four centuries of cultural exchange between China and the Western world are represented in this jewel. (china.org.cn)
  • Since it joined the Convention Concerning the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1985, China now has 31 world heritage sites, ranking third in the world. (china.org.cn)
  • Watson contrasted the general indifference to the decline of Natural World Heritage Sites to the worldwide outrage in March 2001, "when the Taliban blew up those amazing temples in Afghanistan," the monumental 1,700-year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan, a cultural World Heritage Site. (yale.edu)
  • A marine site belonging to the Pacific island nation of Palau was listed for its cultural and natural importance. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Perhaps even more than others who live among the Florida Keys' natural wonders - including the continental United States' only living coral barrier reef - local artists are deeply aware of the unique environment that surrounds and inspires them. (fla-keys.com)
  • With no shortage of World Wonders, each one is more impressive than the next. (iexplore.com)
  • And the true natural wonders? (iexplore.com)
  • On our previous list, Top 10 Amazing Natural Wonders , we covered a variety of amazing places. (listverse.com)
  • Critics object that the free will defense (FWD) doesn't address natural evils (things such as disease, earthquakes, famine, falling off a mountain, etc.), thus it is insufficient, and fails. (ncregister.com)
  • Take advantage of the search to browse through the World Heritage Centre information. (unesco.org)
  • As with other types of programs designed to decrease the risk of diabetes in high-risk patients, the effectiveness of these resource-intensive programs when broadly implemented in real-world clinical populations remains a question of interest to health plans, purchasers, and other stakeholders. (cdc.gov)
  • The Natural Experiments in Translation for Diabetes (NEXT-D) study provides a unique opportunity for KPNC researchers and operations leaders, partnering together using participatory research principles (21), to evaluate the effect of health-plan-based diabetes prevention programs on populations at high risk for developing the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. (weforum.org)
  • The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum. (weforum.org)
  • What is the World Economic Forum doing on natural climate solutions? (weforum.org)
  • While the UK has made some gains, natural landscapes have been so heavily degraded over decades and centuries that we are simply not doing enough to turn back the tide. (nhm.ac.uk)
  • When a place is designated a Natural World Heritage Site, it is a recognition that it has "outstanding universal value" and must be protected. (yale.edu)
  • Russia's new World Heritage site, Lena Pillars Nature Park, is distinguished by spectacular natural rock formations along the Lena River in far eastern Siberia. (ens-newswire.com)
  • The Museum's focus on the interdependence of humankind and the natural world is a valuable contribution to understanding how humanity affects the environment. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • rather, the museum seeks to integrate these subjects to further show the complexity of the world humanity lives in. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Renowned conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall has stressed the need for humanity to seize the coronavirus pandemic as a turning point to forge 'a new relationship with the natural world. (commondreams.org)
  • Wilson kicked off the webinar by highlighting that the concept of dominion - the idea that humanity is superior to all other species - is a very hierarchical way of thinking and is at the core of why nature is afforded few or no rights in our country and across most parts of the world. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The panellists added that such drives by communities were a clear indication of a greater need for harmony between humanity and the natural world - something we should be aiming for in South Africa. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Changes in the way humanity inhabits the planet have given the volatile microbial world multiple new opportunities to exploit. (who.int)
  • The "natural evil" of a crushed skull or broken nose and severe scrapes may, therefore, occur. (ncregister.com)
  • Natural laws are such (by their very nature, and given physical objects) that "injuries" and "annihilations" will inevitably occur. (ncregister.com)
  • A number of common natural diseases can occur spontaneously or can be secondary to a non-natural, injurious event. (medscape.com)
  • Understanding magnetic reconnection is fundamental to comprehending explosive phenomena throughout the Universe, such as solar flares (billion-megaton explosions in the Sun's atmosphere), gamma-ray bursts (intense bursts of radiation from exotic stars), and laboratory nuclear fusion. (universetoday.com)
  • The near-Earth space environment is the only natural laboratory where we can make direct measurements of the physics of explosive magnetic phenomena occurring throughout the Universe. (universetoday.com)
  • Through her research at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Colleen Iversen collaborates with colleagues around the world to add knowledge about climate-vulnerable ecosystems into Earth system models that predict the planet's future. (ornl.gov)
  • In 2016, Indonesia liquefied and exported 16.6 MMT of natural gas, good for 6.4% of global supply. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The article discussed the hybrid warfare threat Russia poses to Norwegian natural gas exports to Europe. (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • But with substantial offshore natural gas reserves, the country has become a major player in LNG exports over the past decade, more than doubling its output since 2004. (foxbusiness.com)
  • When the EU launched an investigation into Chinese electric car subsidies, Brussels wanted the world to know that it will protect the automotive sector that is the jewel in Europe's industrial crown, even if it upsets Beijing. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • While the above solutions require intensively managed processes to restore nature, rewilding is a newer, more natural approach. (europa.eu)
  • By identifying spaces where natural processes are encouraged, it allows nature to heal so that it can start to manage on its own again. (europa.eu)
  • So even though I study and measure only a small part of the natural world, I can put those pieces together like a puzzle with the measurements that other people are making and use that to inform the mathematical models that run on supercomputers that can help us to do experiments with the entire world. (ornl.gov)
  • As a part of the Natural Experiments in Translation for Diabetes (NEXT-D) network, the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Division of Research is assessing the effectiveness of 2 health plan-initiated programs to prevent the onset of diabetes in patients at high risk. (cdc.gov)
  • The Ebola outbreak in three small countries paralysed the world with fear and travel constraints. (who.int)
  • Thanks to the success of vaccination, the last natural outbreak of smallpox in the United States occurred in 1949. (cdc.gov)
  • Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today's complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict. (unesco.org)
  • The natural sites are Kenya's Lake System in the Great Rift Valley (Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru and Lake Elementaita), Lake Turkana National Parks and Mt. Kenya National Park/Natural Forest. (magicalkenya.com)
  • Instead, in the face of intense lobbying by an Australian government intent on avoiding embarrassment, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee declined in 2015 even to add the reef to its list of sites that are "in danger. (yale.edu)
  • That failure to make much difference to conservation may be more the rule than the exception for Natural World Heritage Sites, a new study in the journal Biological Conservation suggests. (yale.edu)
  • A team of a half-dozen researchers examined about 150 of the current 238 Natural World Heritage Sites (NWHS) worldwide, from Yellowstone National Park in the United States, among the first designated World Heritage sites, in the class of 1978, to Manas Wildlife Sanctuary in India, class of 1985. (yale.edu)
  • The first, using high-resolution Landsat data, identified significant forest loss in 91 percent of forested World Heritage sites (together with a surrounding 10-kilometer buffer zone). (yale.edu)
  • The second data set indicated that Natural World Heritage Sites have a human footprint closer to farmland than to wilderness, based on a cumulative measurement of population, roadways, construction, agriculture, and other forms of development. (yale.edu)
  • To the surprise of the researchers, the study revealed that North American sites accounted for 57 percent of all forest loss in Natural World Heritage Sites worldwide, "despite their protection and management being considered highly effective. (yale.edu)
  • ST. PETERSBURG, Russia , July 3, 2012 (ENS) - The World Heritage Committee has inscribed five new natural sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List, including Chad's first World Heritage property. (ens-newswire.com)
  • These new World Heritage sites were inscribed in addition to the Sangha Trinational Protected Area, shared among Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo, which ENS covered in a separate report . (ens-newswire.com)
  • The official World Heritage advisory body on nature, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, presented its evaluations of nine sites to the World Heritage Committee. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Natural World Heritage sites face many challenges that threaten their existence. (unesco.org)
  • Since 2006, the Rapid Response Facility (RRF) has been providing emergency support to natural World Heritage sites in developing countries at times of crisis. (unesco.org)
  • The Rapid Response Facility (RRF) provides emergency support to natural World Heritage sites - sites of 'Outstanding Universal Value' - in developing countries. (unesco.org)
  • By focusing on World Heritage sites, the RRF prioritizes support for natural heritage sites of outstanding universal value that are the planet's lasting legacy for future generations. (unesco.org)
  • We're changing the world way more rapidly than it's ever changed in the past. (ornl.gov)
  • Adressing the challenge of sustainably meeting the natural resource demands of a rapidly urbanizing world. (lu.se)
  • Critics object that the 'free will defense' fails because it doesn't address natural evils. (ncregister.com)
  • As National Heritage Week focuses on nature, Sylvia Thompson asks environmentalists how - in spite of the gloomy statistics on species loss and habitat decline - we can have a joyful relationship with the natural world. (irishtimes.com)
  • The world needs an organization to prevent, detect and respond to outbreaks so they do not become epidemics - and to finish the job of eradicating polio. (who.int)
  • The world needs an organization with 1 Evaluation of WHO Reform, Third Stage (April 2017). (who.int)
  • Only 60% of the people in the world have access to health care without financial hardship.1 An estimated 400 million have no access even to essential health services.2 The world needs an organization to fight for these people, who are often the poorest, so they can receive access to health services without financial hardship. (who.int)
  • The world needs an organization to provide authoritative advice to governments and the public to help them to provide the most evidence based health services, prevention and promotion. (who.int)
  • The 2005 World Health Organization-European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (WHO-EORTC) classification of CTCLs is divided into those with indolent clinical behavior and those with aggressive subtypes. (medscape.com)
  • To the extent that humans are adapted to think of agriculture as a natural system, when it isn't at all. (nhm.ac.uk)
  • Writing in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science Dr. Peter Kahn, a developmental psychologist, explores the different effects produced by humans interacting with actual nature and technological nature, i.e. technology meant to represent the natural world in some aspect. (mongabay.com)
  • More human figures are juxtaposed with bats and birds, wild animals many humans are likely to encounter, and major sources of diverse zoonotic viruses throughout the world. (cdc.gov)
  • still, at least half of the deaths coming to the attention of the medical examiner will be due to natural causes. (medscape.com)
  • Similar to nearby Australia, Malaysia has substantial offshore natural gas reserves located on a continental shelf it shares with Thailand. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The backlash against Palo Alto's gas ban comes after the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a natural gas ban in Berkeley in April. (freebeacon.com)
  • Especially a system of natural satellites orbiting around a gas giant can be regarded as a miniature solar system that contains precious clues for studying the formation of solar systems. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Most regular natural satellites in the solar system are tidally locked to their primaries, meaning that one side of the moon is always turned toward the planet. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The largest natural satellites in the solar system (those bigger than about 3,000 kilometers across) are Earth's moon , Jupiter 's Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto), Saturn 's moon Titan, and Neptune 's captured moon Triton. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • For the 2007 World Environment Day exhibit, Envisioning Change: Melting Ice / A Hot Topic, NWM commissioned Alfio Bonnano to create a site-specific outdoor nature installation entitled "Ark", depicting a boat balanced in the treetops. (wikipedia.org)
  • NWM also held an ongoing lecture series and annual international symposium that bridged the worlds of art, science, and the environment, featuring guest speakers such as Al Gore, Ernest Callenbach, Hunter Lovins, Joanna Macy, Daryl Hannah, and Wangari Maathai, Nobel Laureate 2004. (wikipedia.org)
  • We have led the world in degrading the natural environment. (nhm.ac.uk)
  • Kahn's environmental generational amnesia proposes that people believe the natural environment they encounter during their early life is the norm. (mongabay.com)
  • Everyone is exposed to uranium in food, air, and water as part of the natural environment. (cdc.gov)
  • While Thailand isn't on this list, the two countries jointly develop the natural gas and share the proceeds, having worked together on developing these assets for almost three decades. (foxbusiness.com)
  • What is the natural history of asthma in WTC workers, including clinical, physiologic and etiologic characteristics? (cdc.gov)
  • Prognosis and Determinants of Asthma Morbidity in World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers' will provide a detailed assessment of the clinical presentation, relationship with exposure, treatment needs, evaluation of the influence of comorbidities on disease presentation, and the impact of asthma on the quality of life of WTC workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Europe has set ambitious policy goals to allow nature to recover and flourish, increasing the benefits to society of a healthy natural world. (europa.eu)
  • The threat of technological nature to human development and the natural world has yet to make into mainstream dialogue, however it likely affects how people respond to many environmental issues. (mongabay.com)
  • It brings together and builds on a number of approaches that already exist to help business measure and value natural capital, and, by harmonizing them, will allow all businesses everywhere to benefit from understanding their relationships with nature. (wbcsd.org)
  • The Natural Capital Protocol will allow all businesses around the world to realize the benefits of including nature in their decision making. (wbcsd.org)
  • Human beings being the only species with absolute rights is a natural system imbalance that needs to be addressed and corrected, lawyers and experts said during Daily Maverick 's "Should nature have rights? (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Dave Young has done the scholarly world an immense service by his painstaking inquiry into Calvin's views about nature and our knowledge of it. (rowman.com)
  • This book is comprehensive in terms of Calvin's thinking about creation, nature, and the world. (rowman.com)
  • Or a plasma screen displaying high definition images of natural splendor and a window that looks out an on actual natural scene? (mongabay.com)
  • The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh is a new book about Ashdown Forest, the place that inspired A.A. Milne to create his classic children's tales. (npr.org)
  • She's the author of The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh: A Walk Through The Forest That Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood . (npr.org)
  • The orbital properties and compositions of natural satellites provides us with important information on the origin and evolution of the satellite system. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • They are a natural part of our immune system, and development of resistance against them seem to be rather low. (lu.se)
  • 1-3 are all natural laws (physics, chemistry, and biochemistry). (ncregister.com)
  • The Natural World Museum (NWM) was a mobile institution based in San Francisco, California that presented art as a catalyst to inspire and engage people in environmental awareness and action. (wikipedia.org)
  • In an interconnected world characterized by extensive mobility of people and goods, few threats to health are local anymore. (who.int)
  • Understandably, our forebears came to view such calamities as manifestations of the fury of gods incensed by human disrespect for and mistreatment of their universe, the natural world. (thenation.com)
  • When death is directly due to the natural disaster, human remains do not pose a risk for outbreaks ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • I study a small part of the world - the belowground world, the soils and the roots tangled there - but other folks study greenhouse gases or soil carbon or plant photosynthesis. (ornl.gov)
  • The objective of this study is to examine the natural history, self-management, and impact of physical and mental health comorbidities on asthma morbidity among WTC rescue and recovery workers. (cdc.gov)
  • The Lakes of Ounianga are a jewel of the Sahara, not only of overwhelming natural beauty, but a testimony to the fragile and unique equilibrium of life on Earth," says Youssouph Diedhiou of IUCN's Protected Areas Programme in Central and Western Africa. (ens-newswire.com)
  • Yet when it comes to natural science (which is precisely what we are talking about, in terms of "natural evil"), all of a sudden none of this is plausible (barely even possible) at all. (ncregister.com)
  • The World Heritage Centre is at the forefront of the international community's efforts to protect and preserve. (unesco.org)
  • A natural satellite is an object that orbits a planet or other body larger than itself and which is not man-made. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Royal Dutch Shell made the fuel using a half-and-half mixture of regular jet fuel and synthetic kerosene made from natural gas. (mbtmag.com)
  • It hopes to become the top producer of liquid kerosene made from natural gas once commercial production begins in 2012. (mbtmag.com)
  • Asthma is a common illness among World Trade Center (WTC) workers (9-year cumulative incidence ~28%) and is responsible for a high rate of morbidity and diminished quality of life in this population. (cdc.gov)
  • Hurricane Sandy exposure and the mental health of World Trade Center responders. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1980, the World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated (eliminated), and no cases of naturally occurring smallpox have happened since. (cdc.gov)
  • On October 11, an article by Thomas Warrick appeared in Natural Gas World . (atlanticcouncil.org)
  • Qatar's natural gas and oil reserves are the biggest single driver of the economy. (foxbusiness.com)