Gil Smart says that after a summer of climate catastrophes, conservative climate change deniers have to work extra hard to ignore the obvious. Climate denial: More to deny than ever via R. Pauli Technorati Tags: global warming,climate change,coral,Indonesia,ocean,flood,wildfire,forest fire,heat wave
Kohima, Oct 19 (UNI): Global climate change due to global warming, currently the most alarming environmental issue, has led to the natural calamities like landslides and heavy rains in Nagaland. According to scientists of the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), New Delhi, there had been an increase in rainfall in the Himalayan range during […]
Caption by Michon ScottOctober 17, 2010 Starting from the western face of Kali Himal, the Imja Glacier flows through eastern Nepal, part of a glacier network that ultimately feeds the Ganges River. In the 1960s, melt water began collecting at the foot of the glacier, creating Imja Tsho. A 2009 study described this lake of […]
UPIOct. 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 19 (UPI) — An estimated 20.2 million Pakistanis were affected by the monsoon-driven rains that inundated portions of the country, a U.N. agency reported Tuesday. Nearly 2 million homes were damaged or destroyed by the flooding that started during the summer, and at least 7 million […]
Contact: Dr. Rory Howlett, r.howlett@noc.soton.ac.uk20 October 2010 (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK)) Sea levels around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic have risen since the mid nineteenth century and the rate of sea-level rise has accelerated over recent decades, according to newly published research. The findings are as expected under global warming and consistent […]
By FELICITY BARRINGEROctober 18, 2010, 2:05 pm Sometime between 11 and noon on Sunday, the water level in Lake Mead, the massive reservoir whose water fills the taps of millions of people across the Southwest, fell lower than it ever has since it was filled 75 years ago. Even as a flurry of thunderstorms dropped […]
Associated Press17 October 2010 NOWSHERA, Pakistan (AP) — With their villages in shambles, winter on its way and government help slow to arrive, Pakistan’s flood victims are scrambling to rebuild their homes. Many are taking on debt as the price of construction materials has soared following the disaster that damaged or destroyed 1.9 million houses. […]
By ROBERT F. WORTHPublished: October 13, 2010 AR RAQQAH, Syria — The farmlands spreading north and east of this Euphrates River town were once the breadbasket of the region, a vast expanse of golden wheat fields and bucolic sheep herds. Now, after four consecutive years of drought, this heartland of the Fertile Crescent — including […]
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of ClimateWirePublished: October 15, 2010 The fourth in a four-part series on Pakistan’s flood disaster. Click here for part one, here for part two and here for part three. NOWSHERA, Pakistan — “I wonder if humanity exists in other parts of Pakistan.” Salma Begum 32, fumes when asked what the government and […]
British Red CrossContact: Mark South, msouth@redcross.org.uk October 15 2010 14:53 Millions of people who lost homes, crops and food stores to the Pakistan floods are facing a winter of hunger unless more money is found. The Red Cross movement has already distributed emergency food parcels for more than 1.3m people, but with this year’s crops […]