Officials point to Russia drought and Asia deluge as consistent with climate change

  By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.com August 08, 2010 Government officials are pointing to the drought and wildfires in Russia, and the floods across Central and East Asia as consistent with climate change predictions. While climatologists say that a single weather event cannot be linked directly to a warming planet, patterns of worsening storms, severer droughts, […]

Monsoon rains threaten to worsen Pakistan flood crisis

Authorities evacuate people living along swollen rivers as further downpours hamper efforts to help millions already affected Associated Press in Sukkur Sunday 8 August 2010 14.17 BST Pakistani authorities evacuated people living alongside expanding rivers today as forecasts predicted further heavy rain that could worsen the country’s flood crisis. Officials estimate that as many as […]

Pakistan floods ‘hit 12m people’ — ‘It’s a catastrophe, and that’s no overstatement’– Monsoon rains to continue for weeks

By Adam Mynott, BBC6 August 2010 The worst floods in Pakistan’s history have hit at least 12 million people, the government relief agency says. Gen Nadeem Ahmed, of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), said that figure only covered Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces. The full figure is likely to be much higher, with at […]

Devastating Pakistan floods now threaten food crisis

  By Faris Ali; additional reporting by Asim Tanveer, Augustine Anthony and Kamran Haider in Islamabad and Junaid Khan in Swat; reporting and writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Nick MacfieWed Aug 4, 2010 9:43am EDT NOWSHERA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistanis facing life-threatening shortages scoured towns for belongings and food in several areas on Wednesday […]

Photo gallery: Pakistan floods ravage lives of millions

  By Michael Georgy Tue Aug 3, 2010 10:11am EDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The worst floods in memory in Pakistan have devastated the lives of more than 3 million people, a U.N. spokesman said on Tuesday, while outrage over the unpopular government’s response to its people’s plight spreads. The catastrophe, which started almost a week […]

Pakistan faces ‘major humanitarian crisis’ after floods hit 2.5 million people

Pakistan is facing a “major humanitarian crisis” with up to two-and-a-half million people hit by the worst flooding in 80 years a United Nations official has said. By Ben Farmer in Kabul and Khalid Khan in Peshawar02 Aug 2010 7:00PM BST Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed 1,500 and officials fear the […]

Pakistan flood death toll rises to more than 1,100 people, ‘whole villages’ destroyed in heavy rains

By Meredith Kolodner, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSunday, August 1st 2010, 10:50 AM More than 1,100 people are dead after record-breaking rains and devastating floods swept Pakistan, officials said Sunday. The death toll could rise as another 27,000 people are still trapped by surging waters, and disease threatens survivors in rescue camps. “Whole villages have washed […]

Worst floods in 81 years ravage Pakistan — 430 killed, 400,000 stranded

By RIAZ KHAN AND ROSHAN MUGHALASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. … Three days of […]

Sea levels rising in parts of Indian Ocean

Contact: Weiqing HanWeiqing.Han@colorado.edu303-735-3079University of Colorado at Boulder Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean, including the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, appear to be at least partly a result of human-induced increases of atmospheric greenhouse gases, says a study led by the […]

Hundreds die in India heatwave — Death toll expected to rise as India faces record temperatures of up to 122F in hottest summer on record

By Jason Burkewww.guardian.co.uk, Sunday 30 May 2010 16.32 BST Record temperatures in northern India have claimed hundreds of lives in what is believed to be the hottest summer in the country since records began in the late 1800s. The death toll is expected to rise with experts forecasting temperatures approaching 50C (122F) in coming weeks. […]

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