New warning system in Bangladesh to tackle rising landslide risk By Naimul Karim DHAKA, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new system that can warn people of landslides nearly a week in advance is set to be launched in Bangladesh later this year, helping tackle increasing risks from a disaster linked to climate-change-driven extreme rainfall, experts said on Tuesday. Developed by the United Nations and Bangladesh s environment ministry, the warning system uses satellite imagery, rainfall measurements and other meteorological data to predict landslides in vulnerable regions.Reuters | Updated: 26-01-2021 19:06 IST | Created: 26-01-2021 19:06 IST
By Naimul Karim DHAKA, Jan 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new system that can warn people of landslides nearly a week in advance is set to be launched in Bangladesh later this year, helping tackle increasing risks from a disaster linked to climate-change-driven extreme rainfall, experts said on Tuesday.
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By Anastasia Moloney and Nita Bhalla
BOGOTA/NAIROBI, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As an undocumented migrant living in Colombia, Venezuelan Leidi Gutierrez has little chance of getting a COVID-19 vaccination. With the death toll rising fast, the mother-of-two said all she could do was pray. I ask God to protect us from the coronavirus. If we get sick, I don t know what to do. Would a hospital take us in?, said Gutierrez, who fled a deep economic crisis in her homeland two years ago, as she begged in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
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By Anastasia Moloney and Nita Bhalla
BOGOTA/NAIROBI, Jan 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As an undocumented migrant living in Colombia, Venezuelan Leidi Gutierrez has little chance of getting a COVID-19 vaccination. With the death toll rising fast, the mother-of-two said all she could do was pray. I ask God to protect us from the coronavirus. If we get sick, I don t know what to do. Would a hospital take us in?, said Gutierrez, who fled a deep economic crisis in her homeland two years ago, as she begged in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
As an undocumented migrant living in Colombia, Venezuelan Leidi Gutierrez has little chance of getting a COVID-19 vaccination. With the death toll rising fast, the mother-of-two said all she could do was pray.