By Anis Ahmed, with additional reporting by Ruma Paul, Nurul Islam in COX’S BAZAR, and Raju Ahmed in SYLHET; Editing by Pravin Char27 June 2012 DHAKA (Reuters) – At least 100 people have died and 250,000 left stranded by flash floods and landslides in Bangladesh set off by the heaviest rain in years, police and […]
GAUHATI, India, 1 July 2012 (AP) – The death toll from monsoon rains in northeastern India has risen above 60, with more than 2,000 villages inundated as rivers breached their banks, an official said Sunday. More than a week of heavy rains in Assam state has caused the massive Brahmaputra river — one of Asia’s […]
By Bruce Alpert, Times-Picayune28 June 2012 Washington – New federal flood insurance legislation could force some homeowners and commercial property owners to pay higher premiums, up to 20 percent a year for the next five years. Currently rate increases are limited to 10 percent annually. The legislation, added to a transportation funding bill expected to […]
By Andrew Freedman 26 June 2012 Three new sea level rise studies published during the past week offer sobering lessons for coastal residents and policy makers, spelling trouble for portions of the East and West Coasts of the U.S. The first lesson is that sea levels won’t rise at the same rate everywhere — in […]
27 June 2012 (CNN) – Thousands remain evacuated from their flooded homes in sodden Florida as a weakened Tropical Depression Debby was set to move off the state’s Atlantic coast and back over water. In Florida’s Pasco County alone, 7,000 homes and commercial properties remained under evacuation order, county spokesman Eric Keaton said Wednesday. Seventy-three […]
25 June 2012 (Insurance Journal) – Lloyd’s has published a roundup of the environmental issues inherent in as the world grows warmer. The recently concluded Rio +20 Conference was an attempt – 20 years after the first conference – “to try to reach agreement on sustainable growth, controlling world emissions and managing the growing impact […]
By Damian Carrington, www.guardian.co.uk24 June 2012 Sea level rise is accelerating three to four times faster along the densely populated east coast of the US than other US coasts, scientists have discovered. The zone, dubbed a “hotspot” by the researchers, means the ocean from Boston to New York to North Carolina is set to experience […]
By Paul Huttner21 June 2012 10.10″ – Highest observed rainfall total (Reported by an NWS employee 4 mi NE of Duluth) 7.24″ – Preliminary storm total at Duluth NWS office(Likely the all time greatest 24 hour rainfall total on record for Duluth) 5.79″ – Previous all time 24 hour rainfall record in Duluth (August 22 […]
Climate change is already affecting extreme weather. The National Academy of Sciences reports that rain has become concentrated in heavier downpours and the hottest days are now hotter. And the fingerprint of global warming behind these changes has been firmly identified. In the strictest sense, all weather events are now affected by climate change because […]
22 June 2012 (AFP) – Global sea levels could rise two to three times higher over the next century than previous UN estimates, according to a study released Friday by the US National Research Council. A committee of experts evaluated the latest UN data and updated those projections with new data on polar ice-cap melting […]
