[caption id="attachment_121623" align="alignright" width="202"] The theme for this year's international day for disaster reduction focuses on older people and disasters: resilience for life. In this picture an elderly woman who was affected by the 2003 Bam earthquake is depicted. Credit: ASIA News[/caption] Every year on 13th October,International ...

Held each year on 11 December, International Day of Mountains was established by the UN General Assembly in 2003 to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life and to encourage sustainable development in mountains. Mountains are crucial to life as they provide freshwater to at least half of the worlds population. Alongside this ...