By Anuchit Nguyen and Supunnabul Suwannakij27 October 2011 Thailand’s government said it is losing the battle to protect Bangkok from rising floodwaters, and plans to open evacuation centers in eight provinces as the deluge forces more residents to give up their homes. “The flooding is beyond our control now,” said Pracha Promnog, who heads the […]
October 26 (Maplecroft) – The fourth release of Maplecroft’s Climate Change and Environment Risk Atlas includes a new Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) that analyses and maps climate change vulnerability down to 25km² worldwide. It reveals that some of the world’s fastest growing populations are increasingly at risk from the impacts of climate related natural […]
BANGKOK (AP) – Bangkok residents jammed bus stations and highways on Wednesday to flee the flood-threatened Thai capital, while others built cement walls to protect their shops or homes from advancing waters surging from the country’s flooded north. “The amount of water is gigantic,” Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said. “Some water must spread into Bangkok […]
By Geoff Brumfiel, with additional reporting by David Cyranoski and Rina Nozawa25 October 2011 The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study1 that combines radioactivity data from across the globe to estimate the scale and fate of emissions from […]
FUKUSHIMA, Japan, October 18 (Reuters) – At last, victims of Japan’s nuclear crisis can claim compensation. And they are angry. They are furious at the red tape they have to wade through just to receive basic help and in despair they still cannot get on with their lives seven months after the huge quake and […]
Associated Press writers Vee Intarakratug, Thanyarat Doksone, and Grant Peck contributed to this report20 October 2011 (AP) BANGKOK – The threat has loomed large over this giant metropolis for weeks: Floodwaters could rapidly swamp glitzy downtown Bangkok, ruining treasured ancient palaces and chic boutiques on skyscraper-lined avenues in the heart of the Thai economy. The […]
BANGKOK, October 19 (AP) – Thailand’s new premier acknowledged Wednesday that the country’s flood crisis has overwhelmed her government, pleading for mercy from the media and solidarity from the country in battling the relentless waters. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said her administration is doing all it can and trying to be […]
Tokyo Metropolitan Soil Testing Results(released 2011/8/8) Over 60,000 Bq/kg of Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 detected in Tokyo! As our first work of our Nationwide Soil Testing Project, we tested soil samples from 132 areas in the Tokyo metropolitan area, including Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Ibaraki. Our results show how much radioactive particles fell over the […]
BANGKOK (AP) – The Thai capital needs 1.2 million sandbags to construct a 3.7-mile wall within 48 hours to keep encroaching floods from swamping into the city, Bangkok’s governor said Monday night. “Every second counts,” said Sukhumbhand Paribatra, whose call for city residents not to let down their guard posed a contrast to government statements […]
By HIROKO TABUCHI14 October 2011 TOKYO – Takeo Hayashida signed on with a citizens’ group to test for radiation near his son’s baseball field in Tokyo after government officials told him they had no plans to check for fallout from the devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Like Japan’s central government, local officials said there was […]
