By Jim Andrews, AccuWeather.com13 July 2012 At least fifteen people have been killed by flooding and landslides as unprecedented rainfall continues to pound southwestern Japan. A further 11 people were missing in parts of the region, according to Fox News. About 48,000 people were ordered to flee the city of Kumamoto. Blackouts hit thousands of […]
By Tom Whipple 11 July 2012 One has to go back to the 1930’s to find a time when so much of civilization was in turmoil at once. The 30’s ended with World War II, tens of millions dead, and much of the industrialized world in ruins. It is not hard to argue that the […]
By Nina Chestney; Editing by David Cowell and Alison Birrane11 July 2012 LONDON (Reuters) – The risk of flooding for many English homes and businesses could increase fourfold by 2035 if more action to deal with the impact of climate change is not taken, government advisers said on Wednesday. As severe floods continue to batter […]
By Amy Goodman8 July 2012 Evidence supporting the existence of climate change is pummeling the United States this summer, from the mountain wildfires of Colorado to the recent “derecho” storm that left at least 23 dead and 1.4 million people without power from Illinois to Virginia. The phrase “extreme weather” flashes across television screens from […]
By WASBIR HUSSAIN, Associated Press8 July 2012 GAUHATI, India (AP) – The death toll has risen to 121 as damage mounts from monsoon floods that devastated the northeastern Indian state of Assam. Villagers are still finding bodies in receding waters. On Sunday the death toll stood at 121, including 16 buried in mudslides. About half […]
Britain’s miserable summer likely to continue for at least 10 days as forecasters put blame on the jet stream By Alexandra Topping, www.guardian.co.uk8 July 2012 Look through the window. It is likely to be raining. It has been raining, a lot, for the past two months. And the bad news is that it’s not likely […]
By Dr. Jeff Masters9 July 2012 Earth’s deadliest flood of 2012 hit the Black Sea area of Russia on Saturday, where 300 mm (11.8″) of rain fell in less than 24 hours. The resulting flood waters swept through the town of Krymsk in the Krasnodar region early Saturday, killing at least 171 people. The heavy […]
MOSCOW (AP) – Intense flooding in the Black Sea region of southern Russia killed 103 people after torrential rains dropped nearly a foot of water, forcing many to scramble out of their beds for refuge in trees and on roofs, officials said Saturday. Many people were asleep when the flooding hit overnight in the Krasnodar […]
By Vanessa Ko, Harmeet Singh and Sara Sidner, CNN4 July 2012 (CNN) – Flooding described by India’s prime minister as the worst in recent times, has left at least 95 people dead and almost 2 million others homeless in the country’s remote Assam state. The Brahmaputra river overflowed during monsoon rains over the past week, […]
By Nina Chestney; Editing by Pravin Char 2 July 2012 Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists said in a study on Sunday. A lot of climate research shows that rising greenhouse gas […]
