In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
Coinciding events in Abu Dhabi next week will bring together leaders from more than 170 countries to discuss solutions to the world’s biggest energy challenges. Energy access and security, air pollution, climate change and the need for global renewable energy expansion are all on the agenda. Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, …
Saudi Arabia’s largest water supplier is planning 4 billion riyals ($1.1 billion) of infrastructure projects in the desert kingdom for early next year. That’s on top of 319 contracts awarded this year by state-run National Water Co. that the utility valued at 23.5 billion riyals for works in the capital …
In a significant move, India today did not oppose participation in a discussion on the issue of harmful greenhouse gas hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under the UN Montreal Protocol on ozone-depleting substances. The change in Indian stand comes in the wake of a joint statement on HFCs signed by Prime Minister Narendra …
The world will have to completely phase out fossil fuels in electricity generation by the end of this century and reduce their use to 20% by 2050 if disastrous consequences of climate change are to be avoided, the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its synthesis report …
National Water Co., the biggest water supplier in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, plans to build a 1.8 billion-riyal ($480 million) storage facility in its desert capital Riyadh. The 4.6 million-cubic-meter storage facility is part of the first phase of a project to “achieve a sustainable and secure water supply and meet …
Energy drinks have become popularized and the market value for these drinks is continually growing. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of three popular kinds of energy drinks (Power Horse, Red Bull and Code Red) on certain hematological parameters and on the ultrastructure of blood cells in …
Researchers in Saudi Arabia said Tuesday they have found genetic traces of the dangerous Middle East respiratory virus, MERS-CoV, in the air of a barn that housed a sick camel. The study in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology, calls for further research to determine if the …
When the United Nations' last major climate change report was released in April, it omitted some country-specific emissions data for political reasons, a trio of new papers argue, sounding a warning bell about the global politicization of climate science. Written by thousands of science, policy, and economics experts from around …
Saudi Arabia has attracted more low-paid Indian migrants over the last 25 years than any other country in the Gulf region. Every day, close to 1,000 Indian low-wage migrant workers are provided with emigration clearances to travel to Saudi Arabia. They are recruited to work in cafeterias, supermarkets, construction sites, …
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — As the virus tore through the city’s largest hospital, jumping from bed to bed and afflicting scores of people, terror filled the wards. Some doctors and nurses refused to treat the sick or stopped coming to work altogether. Patients panicked. One surgeon recalled a man with …
We describe the isolation and sequencing of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) obtained from a dromedary camel and from a patient who died of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV infection after close contact with camels that had rhinorrhea. Nasal swabs collected from the patient and from one of his nine camels were …
Religious festivals attract a large number of pilgrims from worldwide and are a potential risk for the transmission of infectious diseases between pilgrims, and to the indigenous population. The gathering of a large number of pilgrims could compromise the health system of the host country. The threat to global health …
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh government has directed all hospitals in state to keep strict vigil on patients, particularly those who have recently travelled to Middle Eastern countries, with symptoms of the dreaded Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a severe pneumonia-like respiratory disease caused by coronavirus (CoV). These directions come close on the …
Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company is planning to add more solar power, a move to limit domestic fossil-fuel consumption in the world’s biggest exporter of crude. “We are looking at solar investments with great interest,” Chief Executive Officer Khalid Al-Falih of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. told a conference in Bahrain. …
Saudi health authorities reported Monday new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, taking to 173 the overall number of fatalities from the disease in the world's worst-hit country. The health ministry said on its website that five people have died, including a 28-year-old woman in the port city of Jeddah, and …
Thiruvananthapuram: The spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus in Saudi Arabia, which has claimed the lives of 150 people so far, has not attained the proportions of a global health emergency till now, clarified the World Health Organisation (WHO). This comes in the backdrop of rising concerns regarding …
Two Florida healthcare workers who came in contact with a confirmed Mers case are being tested for the virus after beginning to show flu-like symptoms. Officials at Dr P Phillips Hospital said one worker is in hospital and the second is being isolated in his home. On Monday, the second …
The kingdom has given construction developers five years to go green. How will this change life in the oil-rich kingdom? Happy days are here for Saudi Arabia's environmentalists. In early March, the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) announced a decree giving all companies five years to meet new air, …
Saudi Arabia has urged its citizens to wear masks and gloves when dealing with camels so as to avoid spreading the deadly Mers virus. The agriculture ministry advised people not to come into contact with camels unless necessary and to wash their hands if they did. Saudia Arabia is the …
A deadly virus from the Middle East that causes severe acute respiratory illness has turned up in Indiana in the first known case in the United States. The man fell ill after arriving in the U.S. about a week ago from Saudi Arabia, where he is a health care worker. …
