By Becky Oskin 7 September 2012 (LiveScience) – Global warming may fuel stronger hurricanes whose winds whip up faster, new research suggests. Hurricanes and other tropical cyclones across the globe reach Category 3 wind speeds nearly nine hours earlier than they did 25 years ago, the study found. In the North Atlantic, the storms have […]
By Ben Blanchard, Reuters31 August 2012 North Korea could be heading toward a crisis similar to the 1990s when a million people are thought to have died after a series of natural disasters brought widespread famine, said an aid worker, just back from a tour of the impoverished state. North Korea has suffered heavy floods […]
[Note: This is satire.] 30 August 2012 (Daily Currant) – Bill Nye may still be The Science Guy, but he’s no longer Mr. Nice Guy. During a live interview this morning with the Smithsonian Channel, the mild mannered science educator unloaded on U.S. Congressman Todd Akin, calling him “a fucking idiot” for accusing Nye of […]
3 September 2012 (BBC) – Typhoon Bolaven has killed 48 people in North Korea and left more than 50 others injured or missing, state-run KCNA news agency reports. The typhoon “brought big damage” to North Korea and displaced more than 20,000 people, it said. Hundreds of trees were felled and power cut. The North was […]
By Apilaporn Vechakij30 August 2012 World climate change negotiators faced warnings Thursday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in Bangkok. The week-long meeting in the Thai capital, which was devastated by major floods last year, aims to prepare […]
Typhoon Bolaven has helped firefighters to put out wildfires in the Khabarovsk Region, the local administration says. A total of 11 wildfires were raging in the region’s northeastern areas when the cyclone struck. The ensuing heavy rain enabled fire-fighting brigades to extinguish six wildfires and contain the remaining five within 24 hours. The last pockets […]
By JEAN H. LEE, with additional reporting by Foster Klug30 August 2012 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – Twin typhoons renewed fears of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, where poor drainage, widespread deforestation and crumbling infrastructure can turn even a routine rainstorm into a catastrophic flood. Typhoon Bolaven struck the North on Tuesday and Wednesday, […]
Caption by Adam Voiland30 August 2012 Early on 29 August 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of Hurricane Isaac and the cities near the Gulf Coast of the United States. The image was acquired at 1:57 a.m. local time (6:57 Universal Time) by the VIIRS […]
By Foster Klug and Sam Kim30 August 2012 SEOUL, South Korea – Strong winds and hard rain pounded southern South Korea on Thursday, as the second typhoon this week barreled down on the Korean Peninsula only days after 20 people died or went missing in the South in the first storm. North Korea was also […]
Jilin Province, China, 29 August 2012 (CCTV/CNN) – Gales and downpours brought by Typhoon Bolaven swept through northeast China’s Jilin Province since Tuesday, flooding downtown areas and damaging farmlands. The tropical storm affected Changchun, the provincial capital, with rainfall exceeding 10 centimeters from 8 a.m. Tuesday to 8 a.m. Wednesday. The maximum precipitation reached 120.6 […]
