Caption by Holli Riebeek12 August 2010 The first week of August 2010 brought extreme flooding and landslides to many parts of Asia. By August 11, floods in the Indus River basin had become Pakistan’s worst natural disaster to date, leaving more than 1,600 people dead and disrupting the lives of about 14 million people, reported […]
Diary Four, Friday 13th August 2010 I’ve been in Pakistan three weeks and have been working with the Doctors Worldwide team a few days into this humanitarian disaster. If you ask me if anything has changed on the ground, I have to respond with honesty and say that things are taking a turn for the […]
By Amanda Hodge, South Asia correspondent, The AustralianAugust 16, 2010 12:00AM CHOLERA surfaced in Pakistan yesterday as the estimate of people made homeless by flooding climbed to 20 million. UN chief Ban Ki-moon landed in a Pakistan Air Force jet at Chaklala air base yesterday morning, local time, for talks with President Asif Ali Zardari […]
Indus River, 10 July 2010 Indus River, 11 August 2010 Caption by Michon ScottAugust 13, 2010 By early August 2010, two weeks of devastating monsoon rains had transformed the landscape of Pakistan, pushing rivers over their banks, inundating villages, washing away bridges and roads, destroying crops, and killing livestock. By August 12, 2010, […]
By Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, On FaithAugust 14, 2010; 4:20 PM ET Russia is on fire, and Pakistan is under water. Scientific studies have not convinced the climate change-deniers to act to save the planet. Perhaps an imaginative game change is what is called for. “Global weirding” is one such imaginative breakthrough, but let’s not rule […]
BBC12 August 2010 Pakistan’s floods have caused “huge losses” to its crops, the country’s food minister has told the BBC. Nazar Muhammad Gondal said significant amounts of the grain, sugarcane and rice harvests had been washed away. Meanwhile a senior religious scholar has said that flood victims living in difficult conditions should not have to […]
BBC1:29PM BST 14 Aug 2010 Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that 20 million people had been affected by the worst floods in the country’s history, as the UN confirmed the first cholera case. Independence day celebrations in Pakistan were cancelled as floods continued to bring misery to millions and aid agencies warned of […]
Last updated: 11 August 2010 Several regions of the world are currently coping with severe weather-related events: flash floods and widespread flooding in large parts of Asia and parts of Central Europe while other regions are also affected: by heatwave and drought in Russian Federation, mudslides in China and severe droughts in sub-Saharan Africa. While […]
By Associated PressMonday, 09 Aug, 2010 ISLAMABAD: The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan could exceed the combined total in three recent megadisasters – the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake – the United Nations said Monday. The death toll in each of those […]
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of ClimateWireAugust 12, 2010 UNITED NATIONS — A string of devastating natural disasters many are attributing to climate change has sent food prices on a roller coaster ride, leading to fears of a wave of climate-induced food price shocks of the sort that sparked rioting in the developing world two years ago. […]
