Blogging the End of the World™
October 5 (Save the Children) – The lives of at least three million children in Pakistan are at risk from malnutrition and disease because of a huge shortfall in emergency funding needed to help families left destitute by recent heavy flooding in Sindh province, says Save the Children. Only 9% of the £233 million required […]
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 4 (Bernama) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has warned that rising sea levels could put coastal cities from Kolkata to Miami at “serious” risk in the years to come. In his message on the occasion of ‘World Habitat Day’, Ban said rising sea levels are an urgent concern given that 60 million […]
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch 4 October 2011 SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) – Memo to the Super Rich, your high-paid lobbyists and your no-compromise political puppets whose sole mission is destroying the presidency: Yes, you are succeeding. You’re also killing the economy. Thanks to your self-destructive ideology, America is now in the second of […]
By On The Level Productions18 April 2010 This is a trailer for the climate change documentary, There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho. Four years in the making, this film is the story of a Pacific Island community in Papua New Guinea – their unique way of life and their fight to preserve […]
By Heidi Blake2 October 2011 The north of England is no stranger to grim weather. As the south enjoyed the hottest October 2nd for more than 100 years, northerners were forced to wrap up warm and put up their umbrellas. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, they were last night warned to brace themselves […]
By Jutarat Skulpichetrat, additional reporting by Prak Chan Thul in Phnom Penh; Editing by Alan Raybould4 October 2011 BANGKOK (Reuters) – At least 224 people have died in flooding in Thailand since mid-July and water has inundated the 400-year-old Chai Wattanaram temple in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a World Heritage Site, officials said Tuesday. […]
By Neil Sands4 October 2011 (AFP) – A second South Pacific community has declared a state of emergency in a drought crisis that has seen water rationing imposed in parts of the region, officials in Wellington said Tuesday. Tokelau, a New Zealand-administered territory of about 1,400 people, has less than a week’s drinking water after […]
October 4 (Pakistan News Service) – ISLAMABAD: The United Nations warned on Monday that the international community had failed to respond to the latest flooding crisis in Pakistan, leaving three million people in urgent need of food handouts. The nuclear-armed Muslim state has suffered two consecutive years of floods but has been at increasing risk […]
By Elizabeth Grossman16 May 2011 New York City’s low-income neighborhoods and California’s Salinas Valley, where 80 percent of the United States’ lettuce is grown, could hardly be more different. But scientists have discovered that children growing up in these communities — one characterized by the rattle of subway trains, the other by acres of produce […]
[Update: CatMap is Back, hurrah! Good Bye Hello] One of the brightest luminaries on the doomer landscape has withdrawn from the field, presumably to focus on building a doomstead. Here’s the final communiqué: Goodbye CatastropheMap is closed permanently. Feel free to enjoy our archives, and especially peruse the 2020 Foresight Prophecy Service. Free Guide to […]
