By RAVI NESSMAN (AP)4 September 2010 DAIRA DINPANAH, Pakistan — Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be. In the month since his home was destroyed in the raging floodwaters that inundated Pakistan, he has gotten no […]
IANS2010-09-01 16:10:00 Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that his country has suffered losses of around $43 billion due to the floods that have displaced over 17 million people and killed over 1,600. The floods, which started with heavy monsoon rains in July, have affected 30 percent of agricultural land and […]
UPISept. 1, 2010 at 9:58 AM LONDON, Sept. 1 (UPI) — Only 20 percent of Pakistan’s flood victims have been rescued due to the enormity of the crisis, an international relief official said Wednesday. Gareth Owen, emergencies director of Save the Children in Britain, said the logistical challenges of reaching tens of thousands of people […]
By MASAMI ITO, staff writerTuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 Japan is known as the biggest consumer of tuna. Be it raw for sushi or sashimi or fried, broiled or canned, tuna is an important element of the food culture. But concerns are growing because tuna is disappearing, and this is putting Japan in a difficult diplomatic […]
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 31 Aug 2010 ISLAMABAD — It only took a few minutes on board a helicopter scudding across the wasteland that is the Pakistan flood zone for WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran to understand the full extent of the crisis currently facing the country. Hectare after hectare of prime farmland […]
A dramatic rise in the surface temperature of Indonesian waters has resulted in a large-scale bleaching event that has devastated local coral populations. Following a report of a bleaching incident in May, WCS-Indonesia dispatched a “Rapid Response Unit” of marine biologists to investigate. Their initial survey revealed that over 60 percent of corals have […]
BBC29 August 2010 Floodwater has submerged a town in the southern province of Sindh, and threatens another being used as a key staging post for flood relief workers. Sujawal, a town of some 250,000 people, has been submerged while people battle to save the nearby city of Thatta, reports say. Authorities are still trying to […]
By TIM SULLIVAN (AP)28 August 2010 SHIKARPUR, Pakistan — Thousands of farmers have crowded this once-quiet Pakistani town. They live on the hospital’s lawn, they camp on overpasses. Their fields are destroyed, covered by billions of gallons of brown soupy floodwater. But ask those farmers about their water troubles and they’ll tell you flooding is […]
By Zeina Khodr, AlJazeera English August 27, 2010 Nearly a month after Pakistan’s most catastrophic deluges swept away towns and villages across the country, hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded by fresh floods in some regions. In Sindh province – one of the worst affected areas – authorities have issued new evacuation orders […]
Corvallis, Ore. (UPI) Aug 26, 2010 – Much of the world’s electronic waste ends up in China for recycling, an activity creating significant health and environmental hazards, researchers say. Scientists from China and Oregon State University have identified toxic elements in the emissions from cottage-industry recycling workshops in southern China that use low-tech methods […]
