Contact: Clare Nullis, Press Officer, WMO, Tel +41 (0)22 730 8478 Michael Williams, Chief, Communications and Public Affairs. Tel: +41 (0)22 730 8315 GENEVA, 14 September 2012 (WMO) – An international agreement to phase out chemicals which attack the Earth’s vital ozone shield celebrates its 25th anniversary as a showcase for successful global environmental cooperation, […]
Satellite view of Benue River, Nigeria in 2009 Satellite view of Benue River, Nigeria in 2012 KANO, Nigeria, 10 September 2012 (AFP) – The death toll from flooding in eastern Nigeria after heavy rain and the release of water from a dam in Cameroon has risen to 30, with some 120,000 people displaced, an […]
By Neela Banerjee16 September 2012 FAYETTEVILLE, Georgia (Los Angeles Times) – In this southern suburb of Atlanta, the lawns skirting the million-dollar homes are lush, and the swimming pools full. But farther south, the Flint River has thinned into mud flats at a time of year when surges of white water would normally be crashing […]
By MIREYA NAVARRO10 September 2012 With a 520-mile-long coast lined largely by teeming roads and fragile infrastructure, New York City is gingerly facing up to the intertwined threats posed by rising seas and ever-more-severe storm flooding. So far, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has commissioned exhaustive research on the challenge of climate change. His administration is […]
By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya; Editing by Alister Doyle and Pravin Char13 September 2012 Moscow says Kyoto extension ineffective Says developing nations must be involved in emissions deal MOSCOW, 13 September 2012 (Reuters) – Russia confirmed on Thursday it would not make cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from 2013 under the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol, joining Canada and […]
By JESS BIDGOOD and KIRK JOHNSON13 September 2012 BOSTON – The Commerce Department on Thursday issued a formal disaster declaration for the Northeastern commercial groundfish fishery, paving the way for financial relief for the battered industry and the communities that depend on it. To many here, the declaration underscored the urgency of a groundfish depletion […]
Contact: Lisa Lee, Director of Communications, CDP Headquarters, London +44 (0)7554 430 962 / +44 (0) 20 7415 7196 lisa.lee@cdproject.net Catherine von Altheer, Communications Manager, CDP Headquarters, London+44 (0) 7794 003 903 | +44 (0) 20 7970 5682 Catherine.vonAltheer@cdproject.net 12 September 2012 London – Following increasing incidents of extreme weather events which disrupted business operations […]
By Greg Botelho15 September 2012 (CNN) – Well before Hurricane Isaac hit Louisiana and brought localized heavy flooding, the weather story of the summer was not about an abundance of water – it was the lack thereof. And it still is. Farmers and residents in 40 states know this all too well, as this summer’s […]
By Richard Gootee14 September 2012 NEW HARMONY, Indiana – The summer’s extreme drought is on track of being one of the nation’s costliest natural disasters since 1980, according to Chris Hurt, a Purdue University agricultural economist. Speaking to nearly 100 area farmers during a breakfast presentation Thursday at the Posey County 4-H Fairgrounds, Hurt said […]
By Joanna Lillis7 September 2012 President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has upped his rhetoric against neighboring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, warning that their efforts to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers upstream could spark war. Speaking during an official visit to Astana on September 7, Karimov launched a broadside against Bishkek and Dushanbe, which, he said, […]
