By MICHAEL BURNHAM AND NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of GreenwirePublished: May 4, 2010 NAIROBI, Kenya — It’s the rainy season, but the sun is still baking the Mathare Valley slum. A half-million people live in this warren of shacks clustered amid 10 square kilometers of the Mathare River. When the rains fall, drops spill like marbles on […]
By staff writers – Translated by Hai MienWednesday, Apr 28,2010, Posted at: 13:26(GMT+7) Forest fires are worse as several new infernos flared up at different zones of Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap Province. The national park, which is located in the Mekong Delta province’s Tam Nong District, catched fires on April 25 and […]
By PAUL TATNELLApril 30, 2010 – 4:53PM Sydney has experienced its fifth warmest April on record with a month of balmy nights and little rain. But don’t put away the warm clothes just yet with predictions that winter is on the way; it’s just running a little late. The average April minimum temperature was 1 […]
Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Cynthia Osterman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Deaths from heat waves, property damage from floods and rising seas from melting glaciers are a few of the things Americans can expect as a result of climate change, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a report released Tuesday. The report, called Climate […]
By ELLIE HARVEYApril 27, 2010 NOT since the April days of 1922 has Sydney had such a run of warm weather so late in autumn. Last Friday, the temperature reached 30.7 degrees in the city – the hottest day this late in the season for 88 years. A Weatherzone.com.au meteorologist, Josh Fisher, said April typically […]
By THOMAS HUNTERMarch 31, 2010 Hot and wet. That’s how the record books will remember Melbourne’s unseasonal March, the city’s hottest month in 36 years and its wettest in almost a decade, say meteorologists. Weatherzone.com.au‘s Samuel Terry said the wet weather set in early, with 37 millimetres falling in damaging showers over March 6 and […]
The number of days with record hot temperatures has increased each decade over the past 50 years. There have been fewer record cold days each decade. 2000 to 2009 was Australia’s warmest decade on record. State of the Climate [pdf] Technorati Tags: Australia,global warming,climate change,drought,flood,agriculture,sea level,freshwater depletion,heat wave
Reported by Trung Duong – Tien Trinh 2000 custard apple trees. Around four years old. To a tree, they withered and died. That was a month ago. Now, he can do nothing but watch a hectare of his mango trees fade in the relentless heat. “Drought like this… there’s no way I can save the […]
By ADAM MORTONMarch 19, 2010 MELBOURNE’S temperature has topped 20 degrees for the past 100 days straight, the longest stretch of its type in more than 150 years of measurement. Yesterday’s maximum of 31 degrees continued a run of 20-plus degree days that began on December 9 last year. It has smashed the record of […]
www.mongabay.comMarch 02, 2010 Western Australia endured its hottest summer on record, according to the state weather bureau. At 29.6°C, temperatures were 0.2°C warmer than the previous record, set in 1997-1998. Western Australia has been keeping state-wide temperature data since 1950. Perth, the state’s capital, had its driest summer since record-keeping began in 1897. Only 0.2 […]
