Monday, April 18, 2011

2010: A Really Bad Year for Natural Disasters | UN Dispatch

2010: A Really Bad Year for Natural Disasters | UN Dispatch: "If you ever find yourself thinking that there seemed to be a lot of natural disasters last year, you’d be correct. The Japan earthquake and tsunami has rightly dominated the headlines recently, but between the Pakistan floods, Haiti earthquake, floods in China and West Africa, 2010 was a particularly bad year for natural disasters.

In a new report A Year of Living Dangerously, the Brookings Institution takes a look back at the natural disasters that shook the world in 2010."

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