Sub-Saharan Africa, Former Soviet Union Rate Roads Worst.Synopsis: Fifty-nine percent of the world's adults are satisfied with their local roads and highways, but satisfaction is as low as 36% in sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Union.Hoff...
Heavy rains during this, one of the world’s worst natural disasters of 2023, have rendered major roads leading to Nyamukubi, Bushushu, and Rambira villages inaccessible, causing delays in emergency response operations. The frequency and severity of extreme rainfall events and related natural ...
India would keep me guessing. I spent two years wandering dusty roads, camping out in dilapidated train stations and relying on the kindness of theCouchsurfingcommunity to shave my scraggly beard and mend my tattered clothes.
South Africa is one of the most dangerous countries worldwide for road accidents with 25.1 deaths per 100,000 people every year according to the WHO's Global Status report on Road Safety for 2015. A shocking 6 out of every 10 fatalities on the country's roads are caused by alcohol impairm...
East Africa is suffering its worst drought in years. In Kenya, at least three and a half million people are going hungry, especially in the North. Farmers say bad roads and a lack of transportation make it difficult for them to get their produce to market. Storage is another problem. An...
Commissioned by consulting firm Arcadis, the study found Houston, the fourth largest city in theUnited States, at the bottom of the ranking, only before Indianapolis, a much smaller city in the north central U.S. state of Indiana. Houston was even beaten by Tampa, Florida, a city with rou...
Harvey claimed at least 82 lives in Texas. Officials say that number includes those who died as a direct result of the storm, drowning in flash floods or on roads. 11: Hugo When it made landfall in 1989, Hugo was the strongest storm to hit the East Coast since Hurricane Hazel in 1954...
Given Texas is at #33, its mean household income is pretty good. In fact, it ranks in the top half of all states. So perhaps money isn't the biggest variable to be ranked the worst state either. What's also interesting is thatDallas and Houstonresidents have high expectations for how ...
Meanwhile, the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) said its engineers were appraising the port access road and appealed to hauliers not to try to come to the port. Sanral’s eastern region design and construction manager, Ravi Ronny, said: “We are working with emergency services to get the ...
Biodiversity-related impacts at wind energy facilities have increasingly become a cause of conservation concern, central issue being the collision of birds. Utilizing spatial information of their carcass detections at wind turbines (WTs), we quantified t