By Can Erimtan 26 August 2010 This summer, climate change, or global warming, has arguably established itself as a reality to be reckoned with. Greenhouse gases are heating up the earth’s atmosphere and, as a result, global weather conditions now seem to have gone truly haywire. Temperatures are unusually high in certain places, while rain […]
8/25/2010 10:33:00 AM Many of Asia’s glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change. This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas, and contributes to sea-level rise. The U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with 39 international scientists, published a […]
A man and a woman, displaced by floods, walk through flood waters on Sunday in the village of Baseera near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images Floods ravage Pakistan People flee the flooded areas from Basera, near Muzaffargarh, in Punjab Province, Pakistan on 21 August 2010. Pakistan reassured international donors that aid […]
By Catharine Paddock, PhD, Medical News Today 25 Aug 2010 – 9:00 PDT As well as losing crops and farm animals directly as a result of flooding, the people of Pakistan could be facing longer term food shortages as canals overloaded in the second wave of flooding threaten to undermine the irrigation infrastructure that the […]
By Jill McGivering, BBC24 August 2010 Sukkur is overwhelmed. Along the river banks and canals, on patches of dry ground and alongside the roads, homeless families are sitting or lying in the open air, their possessions piled at their side. They fled their homes with whatever they could carry as rising floodwater inundated their towns […]
In late July 2010, flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains began in several regions of Pakistan, including the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and parts of Baluchistan. According to the Associated Press, the floods have affected about one-fifth of the country. Tens of thousands of villages have been flooded, more than 1,500 people have been killed, […]
VOA News23 August 2010 Pakistani officials say three separate bomb attacks have killed at least 36 people. Police say three people died in a blast on the outskirts of Peshawar. The Associated Press identified the victims as the leader of an anti-Taliban militia, Israr Khan, and two aides. Earlier Monday, authorities said a suicide bomber […]
By Mail Foreign ServiceLast updated at 9:57 AM on 22nd August 2010 Tired, desperate and starving, these two men come to blows as they fight over a food package handed out by a local charity. With more than 20million people displaced by flooding that is now officially the worst disaster Pakistan has ever faced, the […]
By TIM SULLIVAN (AP)22 August 2010 HAMDANI LEGARI, Pakistan — The old man stepped carefully through his village, dodging craters as deep as graves where they had been mining soil for embankments to hold back the floodwaters. Already, nearly half this village of tenant farmers had been destroyed. The crops wiped out. But Mohammed Ayoub […]
By the CNN Wire StaffAugust 22, 2010 9:13 a.m. EDT Multan, Pakistan (CNN) — After weeks of massive flooding that killed at least 1,539 people, water is finally receding in parts of the country. But for the millions of survivors, another nightmare looms. Much of Pakistan’s economy and infrastructure has been washed away by the […]
