ARACHI, 20 October 2010 (IRIN) – An outbreak of dengue fever has hit the Pakistani coastal city of Karachi, with five reported deaths out of 1,000 confirmed cases, triggering a run on shops selling mosquito nets. “People get very irritated when we tell them we have run out; some are quite desperate,” said Sadiq Hameed, […]
By Staff WritersDakar (AFP) Oct 19, 2010 The United Nations said Tuesday that 377 people had died in flooding in central and west Africa, with nearly 1.5 million people affected since the start of the rainy season in June. “2010 has seen the largest number of people affected and dying from flooding”, the UN Office […]
Paris (AFP) Oct 20, 2010 – South Asia is the world’s most climate-vulnerable region, its fast-growing populations badly exposed to flood, drought, storms and sea-level rise, according to a survey of 170 nations published on Wednesday. Of the 16 countries listed as being at “extreme” risk from climate change over the next 30 years, five […]
Measured on conventional indicators, water stress is increasing. Today, about 700 million people in 43 countries live below the water-stress threshold of 1,700 cubic metres per person—an admittedly arbitrary dividing line. By 2025 that figure will reach 3 billion, as water stress intensifies in China, India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on national averages, the projection […]
Washington (AFP) Oct 19, 2010 – Large swathes of the planet could experience extreme drought within the next 30 years unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut, according to a study released Tuesday. “We are facing the possibility of widespread drought in the coming decades, but this has yet to be fully recognized by both the […]
Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely Record temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and links to some Northern Hemisphere weather support this conclusion. Arctic Report Card: Update for 2010 Technorati Tags: Arctic,global warming,climate change,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption,sea ice,deglaciation,glacier,fish decline,mammal decline,polar bear
By Nigel Hunt; editing by James JukweyMon Oct 18, 2010 4:04pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Agricultural crops in Britain may need to be moved to new areas as the threat of both drought and flooding rises in the coming decades, a report [pdf] commissioned by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) said on Monday. […]
By Jasper Fakkert, Epoch Times StaffOct 20, 2010 Three months after severe floods hit Pakistan, millions of displaced people have yet to find a home. “At least 7 million people are currently without shelter in the flood-affected areas,” U.N. spokeswoman Stacey Winston told a news conference in Islamabad, according to AFP. According to the U.N., […]
Gil Smart says that after a summer of climate catastrophes, conservative climate change deniers have to work extra hard to ignore the obvious. Climate denial: More to deny than ever via R. Pauli Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,coral,Indonesia,ocean,flood,wildfire,forest fire,heat wave
[Desdemona remembers when only “developing nations” had austerity measures clamped onto them.] By Daniel Pimlott and Chris Giles in London and Robin Harding in WashingtonOctober 20 2010 23:30 | Last updated: October 20 2010 23:30 The UK’s Conservative-led coalition has announced the most drastic budget cuts in living memory, outstripping measures taken by other advanced […]
