This Envisat image shows the flooded area – represented by the blue colour – south of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. Envisat acquired this multi-temporal false colour image with its onboard Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, working in wide swath medium resolution (WSM) mode, in January 2011. Queensland inundated Technorati Tags: Australia,flood,monsoon,global warming,climate change
25 Jan 2011 (Reuters) – Flood waters continue to swamp parts of northwest Victoria, as a massive inland sea threatens towns and villages. Simon Hanna reports. Floods swamp Australia’s Victoria Technorati Tags: Australia,flood,monsoon,global warming,climate change
Al Jazeera EnglishJanuary 24, 2011 Towns in Victoria in southern Australia are preparing for the worst as flood waters head their way. Meanwhile, in Queensland in the north of the country, where around 30 people died in the recent floods, things are slowly returning to normal. Al Jazeera’s Azhar Sukri reports. Australia’s south expects […]
By Bonnie Malkin, Sydney24 Jan 2011 Australia is facing more flood chaos as a ‘floodwater lake’ the size of Luxembourg is bearing down on scores of towns in the southern Australian state of Victoria, threatening tens of thousands of homes. Over the past two weeks, swollen rivers following torrential rains have merged to create a […]
By Nichola Saminather; editors: Paul Tighe, Suresh SeshadriJanuary 23, 2011, 8:03 AM EST an. 24 (Bloomberg) — Australia faces an “enormous” economic impact from the worst floods in Queensland state in almost 40 years, with coal exports likely to be one of the “biggest casualties,” Treasurer Wayne Swan said. “Queensland’s rapid development has meant that […]
By Mark RalstonSunday 23 January 2011 HORSHAM (AFP) — Marshall Rodda weathered Australia’s decade-long drought, but as he recovers from record-breaking floods the seasoned farmer can’t help thinking that when it rains, it pours. Before the rains began in April, Rodda was among the thousands of Australian farmers struggling to make ends meet in the […]
23 January 2011 (BBC) – Parts of the south-eastern Australian state of Victoria are braced for the approach of a giant lake of floodwater 55 miles (90km) long, as Australia’s severe flooding problems continue. Deputy PM Wayne Swan said the recent floods would rank as one of Australia’s most costly natural disasters ever. More than […]
Caption by Holli RiebeekJanuary 12, 2011 Torrential rain pounded southeast Queensland, Australia, on January 10, 2011, bringing devastating flash floods to several communities just west of Brisbane. This image, made from the Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) based on data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), shows the intense rain on January 10. The storm […]
MELBOURNE, 21 Jan 2011 (AFP) — Australia’s flood crisis deepened Saturday with a giant “inland sea” threatening more communities in the southeast, as officials continued the grim search for bodies in worst-hit Queensland. Sandbagging was underway in some villages in Victoria, where weeks of floods have affected as much as one-third of the state, with […]
By James Mitchell Crow 18 January 2011 The floods that have devastated swathes of southern Queensland are beginning to perturb one of the world’s largest World Heritage Sites, the Great Barrier Reef, scientists in Australia say. Southern parts of the reef, which extends more than 2,000 kilometres along the Queensland coast in northeastern Australia, are […]
