By Megha Sandhu, TNNOct 23, 2010, 03.57am IST LEH: As an unforgiving winter waits to descend on the mountainous desert of Ladakh, its people face the grim possibility of spending the bitter months without a proper roof on their heads. Having suffered due to the August cloudburst, residents of Leh’s many villages have been banking […]
By Daniel SellenWed, 2010-10-20 12:26 I’ve written before about floods in Niger and Abidjan, but these experiences left me poorly prepared for what I saw in Benin a few days ago. Half the country is under water, and it’s still raining. We recently received a request from the President of Benin to assist with recent […]
By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, AsiaSINGAPORE | Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:25am EDT (Reuters) – Climate change is set to drive the spread of invasive plant and animals species, threatening forests, fisheries and crops, in a double blow to nature and livelihoods, a World Bank-funded report [UPDATE: Archived here: pdf] said on Friday. The […]
ARACHI, 20 October 2010 (IRIN) – An outbreak of dengue fever has hit the Pakistani coastal city of Karachi, with five reported deaths out of 1,000 confirmed cases, triggering a run on shops selling mosquito nets. “People get very irritated when we tell them we have run out; some are quite desperate,” said Sadiq Hameed, […]
By Staff WritersDakar (AFP) Oct 19, 2010 The United Nations said Tuesday that 377 people had died in flooding in central and west Africa, with nearly 1.5 million people affected since the start of the rainy season in June. “2010 has seen the largest number of people affected and dying from flooding”, the UN Office […]
Paris (AFP) Oct 20, 2010 – South Asia is the world’s most climate-vulnerable region, its fast-growing populations badly exposed to flood, drought, storms and sea-level rise, according to a survey of 170 nations published on Wednesday. Of the 16 countries listed as being at “extreme” risk from climate change over the next 30 years, five […]
Washington (AFP) Oct 19, 2010 – Large swathes of the planet could experience extreme drought within the next 30 years unless greenhouse gas emissions are cut, according to a study released Tuesday. “We are facing the possibility of widespread drought in the coming decades, but this has yet to be fully recognized by both the […]
Return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely Record temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and links to some Northern Hemisphere weather support this conclusion. Arctic Report Card: Update for 2010 Technorati Tags: Arctic,global warming,climate change,habitat loss,ecosystem disruption,sea ice,deglaciation,glacier,fish decline,mammal decline,polar bear
By Nigel Hunt; editing by James JukweyMon Oct 18, 2010 4:04pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Agricultural crops in Britain may need to be moved to new areas as the threat of both drought and flooding rises in the coming decades, a report [pdf] commissioned by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) said on Monday. […]
By Jasper Fakkert, Epoch Times StaffOct 20, 2010 Three months after severe floods hit Pakistan, millions of displaced people have yet to find a home. “At least 7 million people are currently without shelter in the flood-affected areas,” U.N. spokeswoman Stacey Winston told a news conference in Islamabad, according to AFP. According to the U.N., […]
