By Justin Grieser8 August 2013 (Washington Post) – While the eastern U.S. and Canada have recently seen below-normal temperatures, a major summer heat wave has been the story in eastern China since early July. Shanghai saw its hottest July in 140 years as temperatures soared to 100ºF or higher for 10 straight days between July […]
SHANGHAI, 1 August 2013 (AP) – It’s been so hot in China that folks are grilling shrimp on manhole covers, eggs are hatching without incubators and a highway billboard has mysteriously caught fire by itself. The heat wave — the worst in at least 140 years in some parts — has left dozens of people […]
By JOSH CHIN and BRIAN SPEGELE27 July 2013 (The Wall Street Journal) – In Dapu, a rain-drenched rural outpost in the heart of China’s grain basket, a farmer grows crops that she wouldn’t dare to eat. A state-backed chemicals factory next to her farm dumps wastewater directly into the local irrigation pond, she says, and […]
BEIJING, 21 July 2013 (AP) – Flooding in China this year has left at least 337 people dead and 213 missing, due mainly to unusually wet summer weather, the government said Sunday. Floods this year have struck across 30 provinces and municipalities and affected more than 47 million people, according to the Office of State […]
20 July 2013 (Reuters) – Continuous heavy rainstorms in China trigger floods, forcing local residents to evacuate. Lily Grimes reports. [TRANSCRIPT] Two small children are pulled to safety as floods hit Shandong Province in eastern China on Friday, 19 July 2013. State television reports torrential rain left at least 10 villagers trapped by flood water […]
BEIJING, 16 July 2013 (AFP) – At least 295 people have been confirmed dead or missing after rainstorms and Typhoon Soulik hit China, causing floods, landslides and buildings to collapse, the government said today. Torrential rains have battered the southwestern province of Sichuan since July 7 and have led to 68 deaths, with another 179 […]
13 July 2013 (BBC) – Torrential rain and landslides in the west of China have left more than 200 people dead or missing. Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces have been the worst affected by severe flooding and mudslides. Now more than 300,000 people have been evacuated as Typhoon Soulik hits the country’s eastern coastline. Nick Childs […]
12 July 2013 (Reuters) – China and Taiwan braced on Friday for the impact of Typhoon Soulik as the toll of dead and missing from torrential rain across a broad swathe of China climbed beyond 200. Soulik is expected to hit northern Taiwan later in the day, before crossing the narrow Taiwan Strait and slamming […]
By Holli Riebeek13 July 2013 (NASA) – The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image of Typhoon Soulik on July 12, 2013. The storm is moving west across the Pacific Ocean on course to strike Taiwan and China in the next couple of days. At the time the image was […]
10 July 2013 (BBC) – A landslide has buried between 30 and 40 people in China’s Sichuan province following heavy rain, state media say. Rescue workers with search dogs are at the scene in the city of Djiangyan, Xinhua news agency reports. On Tuesday a bridge collapsed in the nearby city of Jiangyou, leaving at […]
