International Day of Planet or Mother Earth Day is an annual event on April 22. Its aim is to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was held first time on April 22, 1970, and now it includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network)…
As we already wrote an article about cyclone Seroja, which killed over 150 people (last data shows over 180) https://tropicalislands.net/over-150-people-died-in-cyclone-seroja/ it moved to the west coast of Australia as well. On April 11, 2021, a category 3 storm made landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns and…
Rarely, but it happens! Good news for nature in Fiji islands. The Company which caused environmental damage was found guilty in court. Three years ago, in 2018, Freesoul Real Estate, a Chinese-linked company, began work on Malolo Island, (around 25 km west from Nadi International Airport), with plans to build…
On 8 April 2021, after a sustained increase of seismic activities over few days, an alert was declared and an evacuation issued. An explosive eruption occurred at 8:41 AM local time on the following day, with an ash plume reaching 10 000 m and flying eastward towards the Atlantic ocean.…
As of today, 7 April 2021, it is estimated that at least 167 people were killed by the storm, with 140 people in Indonesia and 27 in East Timor. Dozens remain missing, while thousands of people have been displaced. That is a heavy disaster! Cyclone Seroja is still an active…
World Health Day is celebrated around the world on April 7 every year under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The decision to mark this day as World Health Day was made at the 1st Assembly of this organization, held from June 24 to July 24, 1948 in Geneva,…
World Water Day is celebrated every year on March 22. That day was adopted by a UN resolution in December 1992. As early as 1993, this day began to be celebrated, and, over time, the significance of this day began to grow. On this day, the United Nations wants to…
Happy International Day of Forests! Originally set up as World Forestry Day in 1971. at the European Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the celebration later evolved into the International Day of Forests in 2012, when the United Nations passed a resolution to celebrate this every year on March…
According to TheGuardian, last year was record, the most people whose defend environment got killed! 212 at all! Just in Colombia and the Philippines half of people were killed. 64 in Columbia, 43 in the Philippines, 18 in Mexico, 14 in Honduras... The mining industry was connected to the most…
According to N1 https://rs.n1info.com/svet/broj-zrtava-zemljotresa-u-indoneziji-porastao-na-82/ number of victims of the earthquake in Indonesia has risen to 82! Rescue teams dag out today few more bodies from the ruins. Many buildings (including hospitals) are destroyed by a heavy earthquake (magnitude 6,9) which happened on Friday on Sulawesi Island. In Majene, at least 15,000…
