19 May 2013 (The New York Times) – Portions of the High Plains Aquifer are rapidly being depleted by farmers who are pumping too much water to irrigate their crops, particularly in the southern half in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Levels have declined up to 242 feet in some areas, from predevelopment — before substantial […]
By BEN NEARY and P. SOLOMON BANDA13 September 2013 LYONS, Colorado (AP) – By air and by land, the rescue of hundreds of Coloradoans stranded by epic mountain flooding was accelerating as food and water supplies ran low, while thousands more were driven from their homes on the plains as debris-filled rivers became muddy seas […]
By Marina Obrazkova12 September 2013 (RBTH) – Russia’s Far East has entered a second month of flooding, leaving flooded cities and villages in the waters’ wake. People have been forced to live on rooftops and even in the vacant cars of passenger trains. The area’s climate is northern and temperatures should drop below freezing within […]
By Matt Pearce13 September 2013 (Los Angeles Times) – Fish began dying en masse in the waters around Honolulu after hundreds of thousands of gallons of molasses spilled into Honolulu Harbor early this week, and there’s nothing officials can do to clean it up. Thousands of fish have died from the sugary sludge. Crabs lay […]
By Jeremy Hance 12 September 2013 (mongabay.com) – Africa’s elephant poaching crisis doesn’t just threaten a species, but imperils one of humanity’s most important links to the natural world and even our collective sanity, according to acclaimed photographers and film-makers, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson. Authors of the book Walking Thunder – In the Footsteps […]
By Christopher C. Burt3 September 2013 (wunderground.com) – This past August was the warmest such on record at the South Pole’s Amundsen-Scott Station. The temperature averaged -53.3°C (-63.9°F) breaking the previous record of -53.5°C (-64.3°F) set in August 1996. The departure from normal was +6.3°C (+11.3°F). The ‘warmest’ temperature was -38.3°C (-37.0°F) on August 6th […]
By Holli Riebeek16 August 2013 (NASA) – For the entire month of July and the first half of August, eastern China baked in a record-breaking heat wave. Nineteen provinces endured above-normal temperatures. Shanghai broke its all-time record high three times in as many weeks. The current record—40.8 degrees Celsius (105.4°F)—was set on 7 August 2013. […]
By P. Solomon Banda, with additional reporting by Colleen Slevin, Steven K. Paulson, and Thomas Peipert in Denver and Mead Gruver in Longmont 13 September 2013 LYONS, Colorado (Associated Press) – With rain still falling and the flood threat still real, authorities called on thousands more people in the inundated city of Boulder and nearby […]
12 September 2013 (BBC News) – A famous Hindu temple badly damaged by floods in India’s Uttarakhand state has reopened for prayers. The temple at Kedarnath in Rudraprayag district is famous for its temple of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction. But it was damaged by the floods and landslides in June that affected more […]
By Tom McGhee12 September 2013 (The Denver Post) – The record-breaking rain that has dropped up to 10 inches in the metro area, tapered off a bit Thursday afternoon but is expected to come down with a vengeance again after 6 p.m., said Mike Nelson, chief meteorologist at Denver’s Channel 7 News. Flooding that killed […]
