MAO Inspects Bangkok Flood Area by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen

"I came to help" Chairman Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung) He's cool.. he's cute .. he's groovy.. he likes to hang out in a box.. like it or not Mao is back! The reality of life in having Mao Zedong as a friend and ally is...

A very powerful typhoon is pounding Japan.

Typhoon Ma-on is a very large and powerful typhoon that is moving east of Minami Daito Island in Okinawa Prefecture.

The Meteorological Agency of Japan says typhoon Ma-on was 270 kilometers northeast of Minami...

disaster mitigation

a·me·lio·rate/əˈmēlyəˌrāt/ Verb: Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better. mit·i·gate/ˈmitəˌgāt/Verb 1. Make less severe, serious, or painful: "he wanted to mitigate misery in the world". 2. Lessen the gravity of (an offense or mistake). These are the...

Homemade Levees vs Yazoo River: Mississippi Floods

Mississippi River Flooding: Homebrew Levee Holds Back Flood Waters Several households constructed their own levees to hold back the Yazoo River as it flooded the area around Vicksburg, Mississippi. The flooding of...

Cajuns are flooded

Cajuns Country It’s flooded normally. It’s swampland. Homes are on stilts and most people have enough sense to know what to do when the water rises. They go upstairs. " “Breaking News Alert: La. opens...

The hazard of living on a floodplain

Living on a floodplain is a hazard I truly feel sorry for people who experience a flood. Having said that, I also feel sorry for people who are so ignorant to make themselves vulnerable to floods year after year...

Local response to fury of Bahraich floods

Just a short stroll through Rewali, Adampur, the mud embankment in Kaiserganj, Bahraich, a small district in the flood prone area of Uttar Pradesh,  gives you an idea of the gravity of the predicament people here face year after year. Yet this year none seem to grumble...

Rising Atlantic – Holland Maryland sunk

According to a story reported yesterday and today in the Washington Post, the island town of Holland Maryland is no more; it sank, submerged by rising waters. So, is this the outcome of global warming? There were...

Flood in Pakistan worse than Indian Ocean Tsunami

Pakistan floods is one of the worst natural calamity of the decade. The casualties and affected people due to the flood is expected to be more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean...

Flooding Worsens in Southern Pakistan, Residents Flee

No respite from rain and flood in pakistan now the southern area of pakistan is flooded after the heavy rain in india led to high water level in the pakistani rivers ."Authorities in southern Pakistan say flooding in the region is getting worse as the swollen Indus river...

Rains continue to lash Punjab and Haryana

After Pakistan and china the rain is threatening india .Punjab and Hariyana is under heavey rain and ihis rain is going to create the flood and waterlogging in the india richest state and further these rains are going to flood sindh and punjab of pakistan as well."CHANDIGARH:...

China floods cause mass evacuation

Heavy rain in the catchment area of yalu river in china led to flood like situation around the bank of the river and more than 50000 people are evacuated from the area by Chinese authority." Some 200 houses have...

Pakistan bans charities with Islamist ties

Pakistan has decided not to involve the extreamist in the flood relief ,the international responce to collect the aid has opened the eye of the policy makers that image of pakistan is detoriating in front of...

Torrential rain killed 12 in pak tribal region..

Rain god is created havock in the region here troubled people get further pain ."Peshawar, Aug 20 (PTI) At least 12 people, half of them women, were killed and nine others injured when torrential rains wreaked havoc in Pakistan's northwestern Bajaur tribal region, officials...

Why Doesn't the World Care?

A well-written, pertinent 'argument' by Mosharraf Zaidi about the immediate response to the devastating floods in Pakistan, and their long-lasting impact on the country. " The 2010 floods, however, are a game-changer. The country will not and cannot ever be the same. The...

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