Sunday, January 09, 2011 KARACHI: The flood-affected people are still living in miserable conditions and more assistance is needed to rehabilitate them, according to the Sindh chief minister. Syed Qaim Ali Shah said this at a meeting with a visiting delegation of the United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) on Saturday. The meeting discussed the situation […]
By Amy Pyett; Editing by Rob TaylorMon Jan 10, 2011 5:48am EST SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s devastating floods are flushing toxic, pesticide-laden sediment into the Great Barrier Reef, and could threaten fragile corals and marine life in the world’s largest living organism, environmentalists said on Monday. Flood plumes from the swollen Fitzroy and Burnett rivers […]
By Michael Perry; Editing by Alex RichardsonSun Jan 9, 2011 7:38pm EST SYDNEY Jan 10 (Reuters) – Residents of low-lying parts of Australia’s third largest city, Brisbane, sandbagged their homes against rising waters on Monday as torrential rain exacerbated record floods that have paralysed the coal industry in the northeast and now threaten tourism. Weather […]
NTD Television2011-01-10 10:58 Docks and boats are swept down a swollen river as Australia’s floods claim another town. It’s the worst flooding the city of Maryborough has seen in more than three decades. Nearly six inches of rain doused the area Saturday, and the local Mary River is expected to peak at 17 meters, or […]
By Michael CarlowiczDecember 10, 2010 The world is getting warmer. Thermometer readings all around the world have risen steadily since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8°Celsius (1.4°Fahrenheit) […]
New paper in Nature Geoscience examines inertia of carbon dioxide emissions Contact: Jennifer Myers, myers@ucalgary.ca, University of Calgary 9-Jan-2011 New research indicates the impact of rising CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere will cause unstoppable effects to the climate for at least the next 1000 years, causing researchers to estimate a collapse of the West […]
By Andrew McCorkellSunday, 9 January 2011 Homeowners living near rivers and the coast face losing up to 40 per cent of the value of their homes as flood risk makes them uninsurable. More than a million homes and 300,000 businesses are at risk, including those in parts of London, Southend, Brighton, Reading, Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, […]
Google translation: Berlingske TidendeFriday 7 January 2011, 03:53 Even if we turned off all power stations and threw the keys to our car away, we would probably be unable to put a stop to it. No matter how much we turn down the CO2-burner, Greenland will still reach a significant turning point by around 2040, […]
The Associated PressJanuary 07, 2011 Australians returning home after devastating floods in the eastern state of Queensland found mud and mess. Forecasters said more rain wasn’t likely to made conditions worse, although water levels had yet to peak in at least one town. Flood-hit Australians See Devastation, More Rain EuronewsJanuary 07, 2011 Authorities in Australia […]
December 2010 had the lowest ice extent for the month since the beginning of satellite records. The linear rate of decline for the month is –3.5% per decade. The low ice conditions in December occurred in conjunction with above-average air temperatures in regions where ice would normally expand at this time of year. Air temperatures […]
