By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau ChiefPublished: 00:00 January 22, 2011 Manila: Climate change which has shortened the distance between the occurrence of El Niño (drought) and La Niña (continuous rains) have imperilled already scant Philippine rice production in 2010, a trend which is expected to continue in 2011, the department of agriculture said in a […]
MELBOURNE, 21 Jan 2011 (AFP) — Australia’s flood crisis deepened Saturday with a giant “inland sea” threatening more communities in the southeast, as officials continued the grim search for bodies in worst-hit Queensland. Sandbagging was underway in some villages in Victoria, where weeks of floods have affected as much as one-third of the state, with […]
By James Mitchell Crow 18 January 2011 The floods that have devastated swathes of southern Queensland are beginning to perturb one of the world’s largest World Heritage Sites, the Great Barrier Reef, scientists in Australia say. Southern parts of the reef, which extends more than 2,000 kilometres along the Queensland coast in northeastern Australia, are […]
Contact Information: John Bwarie U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological SurveyOffice of Communication119 National CenterReston, VA 20192 Released: 1/14/2011 3:00:00 PM Listen to a podcast interview with Lucy Jones about the ARkStorm Scenario. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For emergency planning purposes, scientists unveiled a hypothetical California scenario that describes a storm that could produce up […]
By Selma Milovanovic and Richard WillinghamJanuary 21, 2011 COMMUNITIES between Kerang and Swan Hill will be on high alert in the coming days as floodwaters flow north and reach the Murray River. As the levee surrounding Kerang held on and the Loddon River began to recede yesterday, the State Emergency Service said the town would […]
By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa TimesPosted: 01/19/2011 04:05:56 PM PST Bob Bea has investigated such high-profile disasters as the Exxon Valdez spill, the Deepwater Horizon blast, Hurricane Katrina and the space shuttle Columbia, which exploded in 2003. But the UC engineer and associate director of the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM) says the problems […]
Scientists: Climate change no longer a theory; it’s happening. By LINSEY DAVIS and JENNIFER METZJan. 13, 2011 The pictures today from around the world of dramatic rooftop rescues from raging waters, makes it seem as though natural disasters are becoming an everyday occurrence. But they’re not all that natural; climate scientists say man-made global warming […]
Caption by William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSCJanuary 18, 2011 This detailed astronaut photograph illustrates flooding in suburbs of the Brisbane, Australia metropolitan region. The Brisbane area experienced catastrophic flooding following unusually heavy rainfall on January 10, 2011. With surficial soils already saturated from previous rainfall events, eastward-draining surface flow caused the Brisbane River to flood—inundating an […]
Meteorologists warned Australians six months ago to prepare for a soaking. And nobody did a thing … By Germaine Greer, The GuardianSaturday 15 January 2011 What’s going on in Australia is rain. British people might think that they’re rain experts. Truth is that they hardly know what rain is. The kind of cold angel sweat […]
By Mark Kinver Science and environment reporter, BBC News 13 January 2011 Last updated at 08:20 ET The frequency of heavy rainfall during the autumn and winter over the uplands of North England has “significantly” increased, a study has shown. A team of UK researchers said the shift coincided with an increase in westerly weather […]
