Congenital metabolic diseases usually lead to devastating consequences.
On top of that, ethanol has been blamed for contributing to the devastating global rise in food prices.
"Humidity that comes from the Amazon in the form of vapor clouds - what we call 'flying rivers' - has dropped dramatically, contributing to this devastating situation we are living today," Antonio Nobre, a Climate Scientist at INPE, Brazil's National Space Research Institute, said.
Rebuilding So, the post-tsunami fertility boom was driven not only by parents who lost a child but also by others in the devastated communities who contributed to rebuilding after the devastating disaster.
The chronic weaknesses of civil institutions in Sierra Leone and Liberia contributed to the outbreak of devastating civil wars in both countries, fuelled by the profits from the illegal smuggling of "blood diamonds".
The April 1906 earthquake that devastated San Francisco contributed to the market instability, prompting an even greater flood of money from New York to San Francisco to aid reconstruction.
There, it said, "ethnic unrest during the last two years has devastated the economy and contributed to a general breakdown in law and order.
During the 6th and 7th centuries, the Empire was struck by a series of epidemics, which greatly devastated the population and contributed to a significant economic decline and a weakening of the Empire.
"This has become an all-too-familiar pattern in which the deceptive practices of Wall Street devastated homeowners and investors, and ultimately contributed to the collapse of our economy," Ms. Coakley said in a news conference on Thursday.
Forty years of almost continuous war devastated basic health and education services, contributed to one of the world's worst child mortality rates, crippled capacity and productivity, and destroyed the social and economic fabric of society.
