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08Eighth: natural and environmental hazards
1. Internal and natural hazards: born of hidden forces inside the Earth, with no human part in causing them — earthquakes, measured on theRichter scale, andtsunamiwaves; volcanoes, which destroy villages yetincrease the fertility of the soil.
2. Environmental and climatic hazards: aggravated by unjust human activity — tropical spiral cyclones; desertificationcaused by drought and overgrazing; andglobal warming caused by greenhouse-gas emission, which threatens melting of the polar ice, a rise in sea level and the submergence of coastal deltas.
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