Death Due To Hunger, Sickness And Weather Disasters To Rise To Half A Million By 2030: Report
London: Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.
Senior doctors in the U.K. recently published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever spreading more easily.
Heat waves
Somalia's worst drought in a decade is pushing growing numbers of children into near-famine conditions and deepening the humanitarian crisis caused by political violence, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
Some 3.2 million Somalis are among an estimated 19 million people in the Horn of Africa in urgent need of life-saving food assistance, top UN aid officials said.
The local people complain that the government-sponsored schemes are not reaching the targeted beneficiaries.
Orissa is generally regarded as one of the least developed states in the country. At Rs 5,985 a year, the per capita income in Orissa is one of the lowest among 17 states.
It is not just a rural phenomenon. Hunger stalks our city streets too and is much more prevalent than we think ...
It is interesting that a fifth of the homeless people we spoke to said that they prefer to stay hungry than depend on charity from religious places, relatives and friends.
NEW DELHI: Lashing out at the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government for price rise and spread of hunger and malnutrition in the country during the past five years, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday said data now showed that India was the "hunger capital of the world."
