ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2011) — According to research published November 16 by a University of Cincinnati faculty member, native plants in southwestern Ohio are flowering significantly earlier, a finding he attributes, at least in part, to global warming. UC biologist Denis Conover, field service associate professor, has spent countless hours walking the Shaker Trace Wetlands […]
By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer, rebecca.kimitch@sgvn.com Posted: 12/24/2010 10:21:50 PM PST The storms that brought flooding and destruction to the region last week had something of a silver lining, at least to water managers. The rains went a long way to refueling water supplies that were precariously low after three years of drought. More than […]
By Torsten BlackwoodThu Dec 30, 3:22 am ET BUNDABERG, Australia (AFP) – Hundreds of people fled worsening floods in Australia’s rural northeast Thursday as officials warned the disaster may last for weeks, prompting fears over food shortages and disease outbreaks. The latest evacuees, including 100 residents air-lifted from one town, join over 1,000 moved earlier, […]
29 December 2010 North-eastern Australia’s worst flooding in decades is continuing to cause chaos across the region. There have so far been five flood related deaths in the last month. Rural towns west of Brisbane have been cut off, and crops have been damaged. The overall cost from flood damage is expected to exceed one […]
BBC29 December 2010 Last updated at 04:18 ET A glaciologist is warning that the Greenland ice sheet is “retreating and thinning extensively” after a year of record-breaking high temperatures. Dr Alun Hubbard on Aberystwyth University says its future is “grim” but disputes claims by other experts that it could collapse within 50 years. He maintains […]
ABC Radio AustraliaUpdated December 28, 2010 21:19:33 Listen: Windows Media All this week, we’re talking to some of the region’s top thinkers and looking back at the year 2010 to get a sense of what sort of a year it’s been for politics and people in some of the countries around the Asia Pacific – […]
By GRAEME SMITHPublished Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 12:14AM EST ISLAMABAD — A terrifying kind of mathematics has become popular among aid workers, analysts and others who spend their lives tracking the fate of Pakistan. It’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation about how the country will get through the coming years without declaring bankruptcy: take the country’s foreign […]
By Erik Jensen and Daniel HurstDecember 29, 2010 THE worst floods in half a century have inundated towns across Queensland, forcing the evacuation of entire communities as dams larger than Sydney Harbour threaten to breach their banks. In Chinchilla, 300 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, the local hospital and at least 20 homes have been evacuated. […]
Torrential rains across eastern Australia have left some towns flooded while the southern state of Tasmania has been hit by an unusual flurry of summer snow. The Associated PressDecember 27, 2010 SYDNEY — Torrential rains across eastern Australia have left some towns flooded while the southern state of Tasmania has been hit by an unusual […]
Munich RE27 September 2010 Floods in central Europe, wildfires in Russia, widespread flooding in Pakistan. The number and scale of weather-related natural catastrophe losses in the first nine months of 2010 was exceptionally high. Two months ahead of the World Climate Summit scheduled for 29 November to 10 December in Cancún, Mexico, Munich Re emphasises […]
