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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Strong wind and rain in northern Vietnam unleashed by Typhoon Kai-Tak have killed at least 17 people, damaged thousands of houses and submerged valuable crops, authorities said Monday. The typhoon, which made landfall late Friday, brought winds of about 100 kilometres (62 miles) per hour, according to the national committee on flood and storm control. […]
By Alister Doyle17 August 2012 Downpours and heat waves caused by climate change could disrupt food supplies from the fields to the supermarkets, raising the risk of more price spikes such as this year’s leap triggered by drought in the United States. Food security experts working on a chapter in a U.N. overview of global […]
By Jeremy Hsu, InnovationNewsDaily Senior Writer, LiveScience.com 14 August 2012 Rising seas threaten to drown island countries such as the Maldives and Kiribati in the era of global warming — a dire scenario that has forced leaders to plan for floating cities or consider moving their entire populations to neighboring countries. Most countries won’t need […]
NANNING, 18 August 2012 (Xinhua) – Typhoon Kai-Tak had affected more than 1.26 million people in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, leaving one dead and two missing, local authorities said Saturday. As of 4:30 p.m., 1.2615 million people had been reported affected in 26 counties of six cities, and 68,600 people had been relocated […]
Dave Davies interviews Science journalist Michael Lemonick 14 August 2012 Science journalist Michael Lemonick doesn’t want to be a doomsday prophet, but he does want to be realistic about the threat of climate change. “Since I started writing about climate change all the way back in 1987, we’ve known what the cause is, we’ve known […]
Daniel Schearf15 August 2012 BANGKOK – Recent flooding disasters in Asian capitals are a warning of worse problems to come for city planners. The Asian Development Bank says rapid urbanization is straining city infrastructure, leading to worse pollution, and putting millions in Asia at risk. Heavy monsoon rains this month left a third of the […]
By Simon Lee 16 August 2012 HONG KONG (Bloomberg) – Hong Kong suspended port services and shut schools as the city issued a gale warning in preparation for the second typhoon in a month. The Hong Kong Observatory issued the No. 8 storm signal, the third-highest indicator, at 10:15 p.m. local time, according to a […]
