October 11 (VOA News) – United Nations officials say the capitals of Thailand and Cambodia are at risk as the worst flooding in modern times sweeps through the Mekong Basin. Kirsten Mildren, spokeswoman for the U.N.’s humanitarian affairs agency, told VOA Tuesday that officials in Bangkok are taking urgent measures as the floodwaters bear down […]
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times3 October 2011 Reporting from Robert Lee, Texas — It is the day before homecoming, and there is trouble at the Robert Lee High School football field. The field is dying. The field that was once so lush, so emerald green, that the maintenance staff took calls from other schools […]
By On The Level Productions18 April 2010 This is a trailer for the climate change documentary, There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho. Four years in the making, this film is the story of a Pacific Island community in Papua New Guinea – their unique way of life and their fight to preserve […]
By Jutarat Skulpichetrat, additional reporting by Prak Chan Thul in Phnom Penh; Editing by Alan Raybould4 October 2011 BANGKOK (Reuters) – At least 224 people have died in flooding in Thailand since mid-July and water has inundated the 400-year-old Chai Wattanaram temple in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a World Heritage Site, officials said Tuesday. […]
By Dave Montgomery, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, with contributions from Anna Tinsley and Alex Branch5 September 2011 BASTROP, Texas — Firefighters from across the state swarmed into Central Texas on Labor Day to combat devastating wildfires that left hundreds homeless and prompted Gov. Rick Perry to abruptly return from a scheduled East Coast political appearance. At […]
Photographs by Jay JannerStory by Brenda BellAustin American-Statesman staff The meanest drought in modern Texas history looks different out here, away from the cities. There are no emerald swaths of St. Augustine lawns, no blooming shrubs, no misters cooling bar patrons as the sun goes down on another cloudless, 105-degree day. The disconnect between what […]
By ALLAN TURNER, HOUSTON CHRONICLE15 August 2011 ROBERT LEE — […] With Texas gripped in a seemingly intractable drought that state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon has declared the worst single-year dry spell in 116 years, Robert Lee, population 1,106, has emerged as an alarming worst-case example of what scant rainfall and triple-digit temperatures can do. Since […]
August 11 (The Daily) – The Daily has obtained from prosecutors a range of evidence from the trial of Warren Jeffs, including thousands of pages of documents and photos seized from his compound during a 2008 raid by Texas Rangers. A court reporter provided eight audio recordings in the case: six that were played during […]
God will not intervene to prevent humanity from wreaking disastrous damage to the environment, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned. In a lecture, Dr Rowan Williams urged a “radical change of heart” to prevent runaway climate change. At York Minster he said humanity should turn away from the selfishness and greed that leads it to […]
