Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 16th - 22nd November 2024
UK Health Security Agency sent this bulletin at 22-11-2024 04:09 PM GMT
16th - 22nd November 2024
Regional Hazards
Central America
Tropical Storm Sara kills 4 in Honduras and Nicaragua
North America
Country Hazards
Cameroon
Finland
France
Cable car accident at ski resort injures 8 workers in French Alps | AP News
France - Severe weather (COGIC, media, Meteo France)(ECHO Daily Flash of 22 November 2024)
Haiti
Haiti - Floods (UN OCHA, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 18 November 2024) - Haiti | ReliefWeb
Honduras
Storm Sara: Hundreds of Honduran villages cut off by rain - BBC News
India
Ten newborns killed in hospital fire in Jhansi northern India - BBC News
Severe air pollution grips Delhi with AQI at 373, second worst worldwide - The Watchers
Indonesia
Landslide claims 4 lives in Central Java, Indonesia - The Watchers
Laos
Deaths rise to 6 in mass alcohol poisoning of foreign tourists in Laos | AP News
Philippines
Death toll in Philippines from Super Typhoon Man-yi rises to 12 - CNA
160 deaths recorded in three weeks as six typhoons batter the Philippines - The Watchers
Sudan
Sudan - Cholera outbreak (DG ECHO, WHO) (ECHO Daily Flash of 22 November 2024) - Sudan | ReliefWeb
Tanzania
Rescue efforts will continue at collapsed building in Tanzania where at least 13 died | AP News
Kariakoo building collapse: Tanzanian rescuers send water to trapped - BBC News
Turkey
Deadly landslide strikes Rize, leaving one dead and three injured, Turkey - The Watchers
USA
Organic carrots recalled in US after deadly E. coli outbreak - BBC News
US reports first case of Clade I mpox in California - BBC News
Other items of interest
Baku talks heat up: New climate finance deal, urban challenges in COP29 spotlight | UN News
- New UN initiative aims to counter climate disinformation | UN News
- Climate and Health: Science-based policy solutions Interacademy Partnership and Save the Children
- Charting the Exceptional, Unexpected Heat of 2023 and 2024 NASA
The State of the World's Children 2024 | UNICEF
How Pakistan's melting glaciers destroy mountain villages - BBC News
Signs of Sea Level Rise in the Bahamas - NASA
WHO permits emergency use of Japan-made mpox vaccine | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
CDC A(H5N1) Bird Flu Response Update November 18, 2024 | Bird Flu | CDC
- Oregon confirms first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza
- Bird flu risk to humans: Canadian case has unsettling viral mutations | STAT
Recent papers of note
- Future Earth, The Earth League, WCRP (2024). 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2024/2025. doi:10.5281/zenodo.13950099
- Yao Wu, Bo Wen, Danijela Gasevic, Jonathan A. Patz, Andy Haines, Kristie Ebi, Virginia Murray, Shanshan Li, and Yuming Guo. Climate Change, Floods, and Human Health Published November 20, 2024 N Engl J Med 2024;391:1949-1958 391 NO. 20 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsr2402457
- Dasgupta, S., Robinson, E.J.Z., Shayegh, S. et al.Heat stress and the labour force. Nat Rev Earth Environ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00606-1
- Shrivastava P, Jackson L, Ghneim-Herrera T, Caron P, Correa C, Alvarez Pereira C, et al. (2024) Science in crisis times: The crucial role of science in sustainability and transformation. PLOS Sustain Transform 3(10): e0000132. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000132