By Will Lorimer1 September 2010 Rising sea levels are forcing the migration of indigenous peoples and threatening the freshwater ecosystem of catfish and piranha found in the Orinoco Delta near the coast of Venezuela The Warao are a river people. Found in the Orinoco Delta, they live between the expansive ranches ringing the upper delta […]
BBC29 August 2010 Floodwater has submerged a town in the southern province of Sindh, and threatens another being used as a key staging post for flood relief workers. Sujawal, a town of some 250,000 people, has been submerged while people battle to save the nearby city of Thatta, reports say. Authorities are still trying to […]
By Coburn Dukehart “Telling Their Stories: The Lingering Legacy of the Hurricane Katrina Photographs” is the title of a new exhibit at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans. The exhibit is an emotional and moving retrospective of the powerful images made in the aftermath of Katrina. The Legacy Of Hurricane Katrina Technorati Tags: hurricane,flood,North America,coastal […]
By TIM SULLIVAN (AP)28 August 2010 SHIKARPUR, Pakistan — Thousands of farmers have crowded this once-quiet Pakistani town. They live on the hospital’s lawn, they camp on overpasses. Their fields are destroyed, covered by billions of gallons of brown soupy floodwater. But ask those farmers about their water troubles and they’ll tell you flooding is […]
By Zeina Khodr, AlJazeera English August 27, 2010 Nearly a month after Pakistan’s most catastrophic deluges swept away towns and villages across the country, hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded by fresh floods in some regions. In Sindh province – one of the worst affected areas – authorities have issued new evacuation orders […]
BBC27 August 2010 An existing, long-term food crisis in the landlocked west African country, has now been compounded by devastating floods – which saw the River Niger rise to its highest level for more than 80 years. The UK aid agency, Oxfam, says half the population – nearly eight million people – were already facing […]
By Mark Tran and agencies, www.guardian.co.uk Friday 27 August 2010 15.58 BST Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis have fled the historic southern city of Thatta in Sindh province after the swollen Indus river broke a levee and flooded new areas. Around 175,000 people, about 70% of the city’s population, were believed to have fled their […]
By Michael Georgy; editing by Robert Birsel and Alex RichardsonFri Aug 27, 2010 12:04pm EDT MADYAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Shah-e-Roon doesn’t have the energy, money or support from Pakistan’s government to help Madyan recover from floods that decimated the small town nearly a month ago. He has been walking for two days with a […]
A man and a woman, displaced by floods, walk through flood waters on Sunday in the village of Baseera near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images Floods ravage Pakistan People flee the flooded areas from Basera, near Muzaffargarh, in Punjab Province, Pakistan on 21 August 2010. Pakistan reassured international donors that aid […]
By Catharine Paddock, PhD, Medical News Today 25 Aug 2010 – 9:00 PDT As well as losing crops and farm animals directly as a result of flooding, the people of Pakistan could be facing longer term food shortages as canals overloaded in the second wave of flooding threaten to undermine the irrigation infrastructure that the […]
