Typhoon Bolaven takes aim at North Korea and China

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. […]

Typhoon Bolaven pounds South Korea, smashes ships; 9 dead – Typhoon Tembin skirts Taiwan

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 […]

Most serious drought for 6 decades in Hubei Province, China – ‘We don’t have enough water for residents, let alone for irrigation’

20 August 2012 (SINA) – In Suizhou City of Hubei Province, where maximum temperatures have been as high as 35 degree centigrade, since July, insufficient rainfall over the past 25 months is endangering the drinking water supply for more than 520,000 local residents and 160,000 livestock. In Langhe Village, worst hit in Suizhou, nearly one […]

World nuclear electric production peaked in 2006 and is already declining

By Gail the Actuary 27 August 2012 The issue of nuclear electricity is a complex one. In this post, I offer a few insights into the nuclear electric situation based on recent reports and statistical data. Nuclear Electric Production Is Already Declining According to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy, the highest year of nuclear […]

Typhoon Tembin seen looping back to Taiwan

By Peter Enav in Taipei, Taiwan, and Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, Associated Press writers27 August 2012 TOKYO – Typhoon Tembin, which drenched southern Taiwan last week before going out to sea, appeared to be looping back Monday for another run at the island and the nearby Philippines, forecasters said. The revisit comes after another […]

Typhoon Bolaven hits Okinawa, takes aim at China and Korean peninsula, drags Typhoon Tembin back to Taiwan

Tokyo (CNN) – A massive typhoon began to make landfall Sunday over Okinawa, bringing winds more ferocious than even the typhoon-weary Japanese island has seen in decades. It will likely be the strongest since 1956, said CNN International meteorologist Tom Sater. With a cloud field of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), Typhoon Bolaven is 20 times […]

Super Typhoon Bolaven bears down on Okinawa, Typhoon Tembin to follow

By John Kraft  25 August 2012 Super Typhoon Bolaven now has sustained winds of 146 mph and gusts to 188 mph. It is expected to hammer down on the small island of Okinawa, Japan where 7 U.S. military installations have almost 50,000 military, family members, civilians and contractors await the impending storm. The center of […]

Graph of the Day: Global Groundwater Extraction Footprints of Aquifers

Aquifers are major groundwater basins with recharge of >2 mm yr−1 in the global inventory of groundwater resources20 (see Supplementary Information). At the bottom of this figure, the areas of the six aquifers (Western Mexico, High Plains, North Arabian, Persian, Upper Ganges and North China plain) are shown at the same scale as the global map; the […]

Warnings sounded as typhoons near

By Wang Qian in Beijing and Sun Li in Fuzhou 24 August 2012 (China Daily) – Taiwan, coastal mainland provinces brace for Tembin as massive storm gains strength near cross-Straits area China’s national meteorological authority on Thursday issued a warning about Tembin, the 14th typhoon of the year, as it approaches southeastern Taiwan. The violent […]

China declares emergency as two typhoons close in – Typhoon Tembin to dump 1 meter of rain in Taiwan mountains – Typhoon Bolaven to be strongest storm yet this season

23 August 2012 By Wang Qian (China Daily) – Two powerful typhoons are heading toward China, putting the weather-beaten nation on alert again after four storms have caused landfalls across the country since the start of August. “Typhoons Tembin and Bolaven may have a combined impact on coastal areas in the coming 10 days,” Zhang […]

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