15 August 2012 (AFP) – A tropical storm slammed into the Philippines on Wednesday, dumping heavy rains and causing renewed flooding and landslides in a nation hit by weeks of destructive monsoon weather. Tropical Storm Kai-tak made landfall over the northeast of the main island of Luzon before dawn, packing powerful winds and dumping up […]
By Mynardo Macaraig, AFP 13 August 2012 Philippine authorities warned Monday an intensifying storm could bring more misery to the flood-battered capital and surrounding areas, where nearly half a million were in evacuation centres. While flooding that covered 80 percent of Manila last week had largely subsided, vast areas of mainly rice-growing provinces to the […]
By Shanghai Newsroom and Kazunori Takada; Editing by Jason Subler and Robert Birsel8 Aug 2012 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Typhoon Haikui struck China on Wednesday, packing winds of up to 110 km per hour (68 mph), prompting officials to evacuate nearly 2 million people and grounding hundreds of flights to and from Shanghai and other cities. […]
By Gilbert P. Felongco, Correspondent11 August 2012 Manila (Gulf News) – Filipinos should learn to accept that typhoons and other weather disturbances would increase in intensity as a result of effects of climate change, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said. “Filipinos must learn to accept the growing intensity of typhoons as the new ‘normal’” the environment […]
By the Editors 6 August 2012 A new analysis of worldwide temperatures over the past 60 years has found more evidence that global warming is already upon us, and is responsible for extreme heat waves — such as the ones in Russia in 2010 and in Texas and Oklahoma last year. Naturally, this refocuses attention […]
By Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post 5 August 2012 POINT HOPE, Alaska – Fermented whale’s tail doesn’t taste the same when the ice cellars flood. Whaling crews in this Arctic coast village store six feet of tail — skin, blubber and bone — underground from spring until fall. The tail freezes slowly while fermenting and […]
By Laura Legere, staff Writer3 August 2012 Pennsylvania’s heaviest downpours have gotten wetter and more frequent in the last six decades, according to a report released Thursday by PennEnvironment [pdf]. Between 1948 and 2011, the state has seen a 52 percent increase in the number of “extreme” storms – those that are among the largest […]
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk 1 August 2012 Drought, wildfires, hurricanes and heatwaves are becoming normal in America because of climate change, Congress was told on Wednesday in the first hearing on climate science in more than two years. In a predictably contentious hearing, the Senate’s environment and public works committee heard from […]
22 July 2012 (Guardian) – After the driest winter on record, Sir David Attenborough wouldn’t be the only Briton to blame the wettest English summer ever on global climate change, on some inexorable shift in the planetary machinery that upsets all reasonable expectation. There is a connection, although no single meteorological episode in any locality […]
ANJU, North Korea – More heavy rain pounded North Korea on Monday, submerging buildings, cutting off power, flooding rice paddies, and forcing people and their livestock to climb onto rooftops for safety. The rain follows downpours earlier this month that killed nearly 90 people and left more than 60,000 homeless, officials said. The floods come […]
