By ISMA’IL KUSHKUSH29 August 2013 KHARTOUM, Sudan (The New York Times) – Their temporary headquarters are a beehive of young volunteers buzzing in and out of rooms, up and down stairs, carrying bags of donated food, medicine, and large packets of plastic sheets. “What happened to your house?” one volunteer asks on the phone, as […]
The aerial photo taken on 31 August 2013 shows a flooded house in Bacha Township in Tongjiang City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. The water level in a section of the Sino-Russia bordering Heilongjiang River has risen to a record high in the region’s worst flooding in more than a decade. Northeast China has been hit […]
By Scott Sistek 29 August 2013 (KOMO) – Seattle is about to not set, not break, not even shatter, but obliterate its record for all-time warmest nighttime lows in a month — and this counts the city’s entire 122-year records, including the Downtown Federal Building. Through midday on Thursday, the average low temperature in Seattle […]
By Alister Doyle; Editing by Simon Robinson and Sara Ledwith30 August 2013 (Reuters) – Last year the Haida, an indigenous group in Canada, set out to increase their salmon stocks and save the planet. Helped by American businessman Russ George, a group of villagers dumped 100 metric tons (110.23 tons) of iron dust from a […]
30 August 2013 (Climate Science Watch) – “The Court finds that there is sufficient evidence in the record to demonstrate that Plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits,” said DC Superior Court Judge Natalia M. Combs Greene in her latest procedural ruling in the defamation case of Michael Mann v. National Review, et al. […]
By Denis Dyomkin; editing by Andrew Roche29 August 2013 KHABAROVSK, Russia (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin ordered an inquiry on Thursday into local officials’ handling of Russia’s worst floods in 120 years, which have cost the country nearly $1 billion (645 million pounds). Putin made the announcement after visiting devastated regions in Russia’s far east […]
28 August 2013 (USFS) – Time-lapse photography shows various perspectives of the 2013 Rim Fire, as viewed from Yosemite National Park. The first part of this video is from the Crane Flat Helibase. The fire is currently burning in wilderness and is not immediately threatening visitors or employees. The second half of the video is […]
29 August 2013 (RFE/RL) – The level of the Amur River near the city of Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far East has reached a record high of 750 centimeters as devastating floods caused by heavy rains continue. Dams have been quickly built near Khabarovsk to protect two major power stations from water levels as high as […]
28 August 2013 (CCTV) – As the Heilongjiang river records its biggest flood in over a century, another major river in the region, the Songhuajiang, has seen its flood peak reach Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province. As the flood peak passed through Harbin Tuesday morning, it recorded the highest water level on this […]
By Adam Voiland27 August 2013 (NASA) – On 26 August 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the Rim fire burning in and near Yosemite National Park. Red outlines indicate hot spots where MODIS detected unusually warm surface temperatures associated with fire. Rim Fire, California Technorati Tags: […]
