[Looks like 2011 will be the year of Hell and High Water for Australia.] ABCSat Jan 1, 2011 10:55am AEDT Fire warnings remain in place across South Australia, though a cool change has removed the threat of catastrophic conditions. The weather bureau says temperatures started to fall across South Australia with the arrival of a […]
Flooding across Australia’s northeast is continuing to cause chaos and shows no sign of abating. The country’s now recorded its wettest spring, causing six major river systems in Queensland state to burst their banks. An area bigger than France and Germany combined has been affected, with some 22 towns across the state inundated, leaving some […]
By Bruce Hextall; Editing by Robert Birsel31 Dec 2010 SYDNEY (Reuters) – Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia’s northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes, and closing a major sugar export port. Flooding has already shut coal mines in Queensland state and its biggest coal export port, […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2011) — According to research published November 16 by a University of Cincinnati faculty member, native plants in southwestern Ohio are flowering significantly earlier, a finding he attributes, at least in part, to global warming. UC biologist Denis Conover, field service associate professor, has spent countless hours walking the Shaker Trace Wetlands […]
By Rebecca Kimitch, Staff Writer, rebecca.kimitch@sgvn.com Posted: 12/24/2010 10:21:50 PM PST The storms that brought flooding and destruction to the region last week had something of a silver lining, at least to water managers. The rains went a long way to refueling water supplies that were precariously low after three years of drought. More than […]
By Torsten BlackwoodThu Dec 30, 3:22 am ET BUNDABERG, Australia (AFP) – Hundreds of people fled worsening floods in Australia’s rural northeast Thursday as officials warned the disaster may last for weeks, prompting fears over food shortages and disease outbreaks. The latest evacuees, including 100 residents air-lifted from one town, join over 1,000 moved earlier, […]
29 December 2010 North-eastern Australia’s worst flooding in decades is continuing to cause chaos across the region. There have so far been five flood related deaths in the last month. Rural towns west of Brisbane have been cut off, and crops have been damaged. The overall cost from flood damage is expected to exceed one […]
BBC29 December 2010 Last updated at 04:18 ET A glaciologist is warning that the Greenland ice sheet is “retreating and thinning extensively” after a year of record-breaking high temperatures. Dr Alun Hubbard on Aberystwyth University says its future is “grim” but disputes claims by other experts that it could collapse within 50 years. He maintains […]
ABC Radio AustraliaUpdated December 28, 2010 21:19:33 Listen: Windows Media All this week, we’re talking to some of the region’s top thinkers and looking back at the year 2010 to get a sense of what sort of a year it’s been for politics and people in some of the countries around the Asia Pacific – […]
By GRAEME SMITHPublished Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 12:14AM EST ISLAMABAD — A terrifying kind of mathematics has become popular among aid workers, analysts and others who spend their lives tracking the fate of Pakistan. It’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation about how the country will get through the coming years without declaring bankruptcy: take the country’s foreign […]
