flooding struck due to an unusual melt-off of Himalayan glaciers, covering two-thirds of Bangladesh with floodwater, and in 2017, hundreds of villages were submerged, and tens of thousands of people were displaced by two months of monsoon flooding. ...
1974 Bangladesh Flood The event happened between April and June 1974 when heavy rains caused a series of floods in Bangladesh’s Brahmaputra River. An estimated 28,700 people died in the initial flood. 1975 Banqiao Dam Failure The Banqiao Dam on the Ru River failed after a massive typhoon...
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By 2050 many cities around the world will be affected by flooding, among them Houston and New Orleans/USA, Rotterdam/Netherlands, Bangkok/Thailand, Dhaka/Bangladesh and Venice/Italy. Flooded shop in Venice in 2019 - image by Ihor Serdyukov By 2100, about 200 million people will live in citie...
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EpidemiologyNipah virus claims few lives, but in Bangladesh, where nearly all known cases in the past decade have occurred, the virus kills almost three-quarters of those it infects and leaves many survivors with crippling neurological d... Richard,Stone - 《Science》 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 ...
Bangladesh: While having the seventh largest population in the world doesn’t sound impressive at first, Bangladesh’s 147 million people are crammed into an area half the size of Italy (population 58 million.) To make matters worse, flooding and monsoons regularly devastate much of the land, ...
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Waste material from a garment factory is dumped in a canal at Savar on February 21, 2022, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Getty Images TRUE:The fashion sector in 2018 was responsible for approximately 2.1 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, which is about 4% of the global total, according...