By BECCY TANNER27 August 2013 (The Wichita Eagle) – The good news is that some of us are no longer are in the direct throes of drought. The bad news is that many Kansas residents still are. Gov. Sam Brownback has updated the Drought Emergency, Warnings and Watches, placing 25 counties in drought watch, 20 […]
24 August 2013 (MAFFS) – MAFFS 4 Rim Fire on 23 August 2013 at 16:15. MAFFS 4 Rim Fire on 23Aug2013 at 16:15146AW Channel Islands Air National GuardUS Forest Service Cal FIREAerial Firefighting MAFFS 6 Rim Fire 23Aug13 1615 Technorati Tags: California,North America,forest fire,wildfire,drought,global warming,climate change
By Zhu Ningzhu27 August 2013 CHANGCHUN (Xinhua) – Floods and heavy rains have caused the death of at least 20 people and adversely affected more than 2.2 million in northeast China’s Jilin Province, local authorities said. Persistent rain has brought chaos to 56 county-level regions of the province, forcing 239,000 people to be evacuated, according […]
By Holli Riebeek26 August 2013 (NASA) – The winter of 2013 was among the driest on record for California, setting the stage for an active fire season. By August 26, the Rim Fire had made its way into the record books. At just 15 percent contained, the fire is now the 13th largest in California […]
By Jeff Barnard, with additional writing by Matthew Daly in Washington21 August 2013 GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) – Running out of money to fight wildfires at the peak of the season, the U.S. Forest Service is diverting $600 million from timber, recreation, and other areas to fill the gap. The nation’s top wildfire-fighting agency was […]
By Richard Ingham 25 August 2013 (AFP) – A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they put the final touches to the first volume of a massive report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change. Due to be unveiled in Stockholm on September […]
By Dan Elliott, with contributions from Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M., and Bob Christie in Phoenix27 August 2013 MANITOU SPRINGS, Colorado (AP) – Drenching rain in the wildfire-blackened hills below Colorado’s Pikes Peak sent a torrent of rock and mud into the tourist town of Manitou Springs this month, killing a 53-year-old man and […]
By Ilya Arkhipov and Marina Sysoyeva17 August 2013 (Bloomberg) – Five regions in Russia’s Far East declared a state of emergency amid flooding assessed by the national weather center as the worst in the country’s history. Floods were heaviest in the Amur region, Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said today on a videoconference. Conditions are set […]
By Mark Tran 23 August 2013 (The Guardian) – Forty-eight people have been killed and more than 500,000 affected by the worst floods in Sudan in quarter of a century. The region around the capital, Khartoum, was particularly badly hit, with at least 15,000 homes destroyed and thousands of others damaged. Across Sudan, at least […]
From Nick Valencia, Catherine E. Shoichet, and Phil Gast25 August 2013 Yosemite National Park, California (CNN) – Susan Loesch and Curtis Evans just started settling into their second home in California’s Sierra foothills a few months ago. Now, they’re worried it could go up in smoke as a massive wildfire spreads. “This is kind of […]
