Pakistan is facing a “major humanitarian crisis” with up to two-and-a-half million people hit by the worst flooding in 80 years a United Nations official has said. By Ben Farmer in Kabul and Khalid Khan in Peshawar02 Aug 2010 7:00PM BST Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed 1,500 and officials fear the […]
By STEVEN LEE MYERSAugust 1, 2010 BAGHDAD — Ikbal Ali, a bureaucrat in a beaded head scarf, accompanied by a phalanx of police officers, quickly found what she was out looking for in the summer swelter: electricity thieves. Six black cables stretched from a power pole to a row of auto-repair shops, siphoning what few […]
By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKYPublished: August 2, 2010 MOSCOW — President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday declared a state of emergency in seven regions as forest and peat bog fires raged across Russia, killing dozens and leaving thousands homeless in a heat wave that has badly hurt Moscow and many other parts of the country. Moscow was […]
The Daily Telegraph July 21, 2010 12:00AM THEIR bodies rotting on the floor of a Japanese dock, hundreds of sharks have been slaughtered for just one thing – their fins. Moving slowly up and down the rows of the dead, Japanese workers on a dock in the Japanese city of Kesen-numa hack off the fins […]
Official: Trash is two feet deep, so compacted people can walk on it Reuters8/2/2010 4:39:11 AM ET BEIJING — Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media […]
A worker attempts to rescue his co-worker from drowning in an oil slick while attempting to fix an underwater pump during oil spill clean-up operations at Dalian’s Port in China’s Liaoning province July 20, 2010. REUTERS/Jiang He/Greenpeace Slideshow: Drowning in oil Dalian oil spill is all cleaned up Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,China,Asia
Smoke from the fires has swept as far as Moscow, cloaking the city in a veil of smog, 30 July 2010. BBC In pictures: Russia fires A burnt-out car sits in front of a destroyed house in the village of Mokhovoye, some 130 kilometers from Moscow on July 31, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of firefighters, […]
Associated PressJuly 30, 2010 Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency Friday as more than 10,000 firefighters fought to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country’s hottest summer on record. Video: Russia Mobilizes Army to Fight Deadly Fires Technorati Tags: forest fire,wildfire,Asia,drought,heat wave,global warming,climate change
By Meredith Kolodner, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSunday, August 1st 2010, 10:50 AM More than 1,100 people are dead after record-breaking rains and devastating floods swept Pakistan, officials said Sunday. The death toll could rise as another 27,000 people are still trapped by surging waters, and disease threatens survivors in rescue camps. “Whole villages have washed […]
By Katie Cassidy, Sky News OnlineSunday August 01, 2010 Firefighters in Russia are struggling to contain blazes sweeping across large swathes of the country. More than 214,000 acres of woodland and peat bog are burning and all of the army’s 300 firetrucks have been deployed to help local units. “There are thousands of small smouldering […]
