By Alison Singer; Edited by Antonia Sohns26 July 2012 Rezaul Karim Chowdhury is from Kutubdia, a Bangladeshi island in the Bay of Bengal. When Chowdhury was younger, the palm-dotted tropical island spanned 65 square kilometers, but rising sea levels and erosion have since shrunk it by more than half, to only 25 square kilometers. With […]
By Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk25 July 2012 The gust of warm air that caused the unprecedented thaw in Greenland’s surface ice also appears to have caused unusually high runoff from a glacier, wiping out a crossing near a key research and transport hub. Scientists who fly in Kangerlussuaq, near the western edge of […]
By David Fogarty and Clare Baldwin, with additional reporting by Khettiya Jittapong and Orathai Sriring in BANGKOK, Tian Chen in HONG KONG, Andjarsari Paramaditha in JAKARTA, Chang-Ran Kim, Yoko Kubota and Taiga Uranaka in TOKYO, Kevin Lim in SINGAPORE and Norihiko Shirouzu in BEIJING; Editing by Michael Flaherty and Alex Richardson22 July 2012 BANGKOK/HONG KONG […]
By Suzanne Gamboa20 July 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) – Native American and Alaska Native leaders told of their villages being under water because of coastal erosion, droughts, and more on Thursday during a Senate hearing intended to draw attention to how climate change is affecting tribal communities. The environmental changes being seen in native communities are […]
By C. Reynolds, creynolds@vancouversun.com 18 July 2012 Heavy rains caused mudslides and severe flooding in the West Kootenays on Tuesday, leading to evacuations and the temporary closure of Highway 3A in both directions just north of Castlegar. Set off by a thunderstorm, the slides occurred in the hamlet of Thrums late Tuesday afternoon. Mud, water […]
By Leo Hickman 3 July 2012 Whenever an episode of extreme weather – heatwave, flood, drought, etc – hits the headlines, someone somewhere is sure to point the finger of blame at human-induced climate change. Such claims are normally slapped down with the much-aired mantra: “You cannot blame a single episode of bad weather on […]
Reporting by Ben Blanchard; editing by Andrew Roche22 July 2012 (Reuters) – The Chinese capital’s heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday. The storm, which started on Saturday afternoon and continued late into the […]
ITANAGAR, 14 July 2012 (TNN) – A fresh wave of floods has threatened several districts of Arunachal Pradesh with reports of disruption in surface communication pouring in from various parts of the state. According to the latest report, the rising water level of Kadang Korong River is creating havoc at Mebo sub-division in East Siang […]
14 July 2012 (BBC) – About 250,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes to avoid floods caused by torrential rainfall in south-west Japan, officials say. Flooding and landslides on the southern island of Kyushu have left at least 20 people dead in the past three days. TV footage showed muddy waters sweeping through […]
By Michael Martinez and Elwyn Lopez, CNN13 July 2012 (CNN) – Canadian rescuers facing risks searched off and on Friday for people missing after a landslide in a remote mountainous area of British Columbia, an emergency official said. The search was suspended at times because the disaster site was deemed unstable, emergency officials said. “It’s […]
