[Somehow missed posting this back in July, but Des definitely wants to keep this story.] By Dr. Manpreet Bajwa and Dr. Harman Boparai 6 July 2013 LACHMOLI, India (Global Post) – Ninety-year-old Sarita’s sunken eyes stared into the damp earth that had flooded into the terrace of her one bedroom house. Her two grandchildren played […]
Khabarovsk Stadium on Lenin Avenue, the main entrance to the football field, 3 September 2013. Alexander Kolbin has been flying over and paddling around the flooded Eastern Russian city of Khabarovsk, photographing the disaster. This is his blog, updated daily. kolbasin Technorati Tags: Asia,flood,monsoon,global warming,climate change,climate refugees
ULAN-UDE, 2 September 2013 (RIA Novosti) – Seven forest fires rage in the Siberian republic of Buryatia covering an area of over 50 hectares, a spokesman for the local forestry department said on Monday. Firefighters managed to put out 12 forest fires over the weekend but winds and record temperatures started a new wave of […]
3 September 2013 (The Siberian Times) – Water levels hit record high levels in both Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur on Tuesday. ‘The water continues to rise in the Khabarovsk territory. The Komsomolsk-on-Amur area is at worst risk’, presidential envoy to the Far East Federal District Yury Trutnev told a meeting with prime minister Dmitry Medvedev. The […]
29 August 2013 (mongabay.com) – Nearly 500 fires are burning across the Indonesian island of Sumatra, raising fears that choking air pollution could return to Singapore and Malaysia. The fires, set to clear land for agriculture, are concentrated in Riau, Jambi, and South Sumatra provinces. Like the fires that charred the region two months ago, […]
By Rhett A. Butler3 September 2013 (mongabay.com) – Conversion of forests for palm oil production now appears to be the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, accounting for roughly a quarter of forest loss between 2009 and 2011, asserts a new Greenpeace report that accuses the sector’s main certification standard of failing to stop […]
1 September 2013 (Press TV) – Indian officials say floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have affected more than five million people in over a dozen districts of the northern Bihar state, as rain-swollen rivers burst their banks. “Major rivers, including the Ganga, Sone, Budhi Gandak, Kosi and Gandak, are not showing receding trend so […]
By Vlad Grinkevich2 September 2013 (Voice of Russia) – The Russian Far East is into a second month of an unusually rainy monsoon season. In its main city Khabarovsk, the Amur River is flowing at a record 8 meters above its normal level, more than a meter and a half higher than at the time […]
The aerial photo taken on 31 August 2013 shows a flooded house in Bacha Township in Tongjiang City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. The water level in a section of the Sino-Russia bordering Heilongjiang River has risen to a record high in the region’s worst flooding in more than a decade. Northeast China has been hit […]
By Denis Dyomkin; editing by Andrew Roche29 August 2013 KHABAROVSK, Russia (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin ordered an inquiry on Thursday into local officials’ handling of Russia’s worst floods in 120 years, which have cost the country nearly $1 billion (645 million pounds). Putin made the announcement after visiting devastated regions in Russia’s far east […]