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One person every second displaced by natural disaster since 2008: Report
2016-09-06 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indilens: On an average, one person every second is displaced by disasters brought on by natural hazards since 2008, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). The IDMC estimates that more than 19.3 million people were forced to flee their homes by disasters in 100 countries in 2014. Hundreds of thousands more are still displaced following disasters in previous years. The latest victims of this global temperature trend are the residents of a tiny village in Alaska, on the north-western...
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