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 DARREN GOODE & ROBIN BRAVENDER1/20/11 4:32 AM EST Top staff members for key House and Senate Republicans met in a closed-door session Tuesday with energy industry interests to work on strategy to handcuff the Obama administration’s climate change agenda. With the backing of GOP caucus leaders, aides for House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred […]
Contact: Dr. Marco Tedesco, Cryosphere Processes Laboratory, The City College of New York, mtedesco(at)sci(dot)ccny(dot)cuny(dot)eduMartin Sommerkorn, WWF Global Arctic Programme, msommerkorn(at)wwf(dot)noJanuary 20, 2011 New York (Vocus/PRWEB) – New research shows that 2010 set new records for the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, expected to be a major contributor to projected sea level rises in coming […]
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 […]
Caption by Kathryn Hansen and Michael CarlowiczJanuary 19, 2011 In October 2009, a series of flights over Antarctica led to the discovery of a hidden feature beneath a floating ice shelf. Scientists participating in NASA’s Operation IceBridge mapped the water depth and seafloor topography beneath Pine Island Glacier and found a deepwater channel—a likely pathway […]
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 Anthony Deutsch in CianjurJanuary 16 2011 20:44 Indonesian farmer Ujang Majudin pointed to rows of rotting chilli peppers, tomatoes and egg plants as clouds gathered again over his fields, already water-logged by incessant rain. With sharply declining yields and revenue, he faces the toughest season since taking over the family farm 15 years ago. […]
By Bruce Henderson, Charlotte ObserverJanuary 16, 2011 MANNS HARBOR, N.C. — The sea that sculpted North Carolina’s coast, from its arc of barrier islands to the vast, nurturing sounds, is reshaping it once again. Water is rising three times faster on the N.C. coast than it did a century ago as warming oceans expand and […]
