Typhoon Bolaven has helped firefighters to put out wildfires in the Khabarovsk Region, the local administration says. A total of 11 wildfires were raging in the region’s northeastern areas when the cyclone struck. The ensuing heavy rain enabled fire-fighting brigades to extinguish six wildfires and contain the remaining five within 24 hours. The last pockets […]
By JEAN H. LEE, with additional reporting by Foster Klug30 August 2012 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Twin typhoons renewed fears of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, where poor drainage, widespread deforestation and crumbling infrastructure can turn even a routine rainstorm into a catastrophic flood. Typhoon Bolaven struck the North on Tuesday and Wednesday, […]
a, Glacier retreat for 82 Himalaya glaciers (Supplementary Table S4). b, Area reduction for 7,090 glaciers (Supplementary Tables S2 and S3 and Fig. S1). c, Mass balance for 15 glaciers (Supplementary Table S5). Glaciers are categorized into seven regions and marked clockwise with Roman numerals in a–c. ABSTRACT: The Tibetan Plateau and surroundings contain the […]
By Foster Klug and Sam Kim30 August 2012 SEOUL, South Korea – Strong winds and hard rain pounded southern South Korea on Thursday, as the second typhoon this week barreled down on the Korean Peninsula only days after 20 people died or went missing in the South in the first storm. North Korea was also […]
Jilin Province, China, 29 August 2012 (CCTV/CNN) – Gales and downpours brought by Typhoon Bolaven swept through northeast China’s Jilin Province since Tuesday, flooding downtown areas and damaging farmlands. The tropical storm affected Changchun, the provincial capital, with rainfall exceeding 10 centimeters from 8 a.m. Tuesday to 8 a.m. Wednesday. The maximum precipitation reached 120.6 […]
By SAM KIM with additional reporting by Associated Press writers Hye Soo Nah, Foster Klug, and Hyung-jin Kim SEOUL, South Korea August 29, 2012 (AP) – The Korean Peninsula cleaned up Wednesday after one powerful typhoon and girded itself for another that could be particularly damaging to North Korea, which is still recovering from earlier […]
On 28 August 2012, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this natural-color satellite image of several wildfires burning in the Khabarovsk region of eastern Russia. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fires. Large fires have burned across Siberia throughout the summer. Wildfires […]
By Yoo Li-an, Arirang News28 August 2012 Typhoon Bolaven is currently steering back into the West Sea, a hundred and twenty kilometers from Seoul at a speed of 44 kilometers per hour. The Korea Meteorological Administration says the typhoon will enter the western region of North Korea starting tonight and reach China by early Wednesday. […]
By Charles Digges28 August 2012 Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian authorities and published in Norwegian media. Bellona had received in 2011 a draft […]
By HYUNG-JIN KIM, with additional reporting by Associated Press writers Hye Soo Nah, Foster Klug and Sam Kim in Seoul, and Annie Huang in Taipei, Taiwan28 August 2012 SEOUL, South Korea – A powerful typhoon pounded South Korea with strong winds and heavy rain Tuesday, killing nine and churning up rough seas that smashed two […]
