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Central Japan hit by heavy rains, floods kill one
Hundreds of thousands of people in central Japan have been evacuted from their home as hevy rain continues. The rain has killed one woman and thousands of people have been displaced. Residents of Okazaki city... Arctic to be free of ice in five years
In the summer of 2013 the Arctic could be completely free of ice. In winter the ice will reform, as it does now, but with shorter milder winters the Arctic and the world is in big trouble. In 1980 the Arctic had 7.8 million square kilometers (three...Ukranian Volunteers Help Flood Victims
Recent floods in the Ukraine have been described as the worst disaster to hit that country since Chernobyl. Scientology Volunteer Ministers traveled to the most inaccessible areas in the Ivano-Frankovsky Region of... Kosi river inundates Indian state of Bihar; 2 million homeless;gravest devast...
" Kosi river inundates Bihar; 2 million homeless"This is India's Katrina, only the challenges could be bigger. Like the Mississippi breached the levee to drown an unsuspecting New Orleans in the US, the... Bihar devastated by Kosi
"Bihar devastated by Kosi"The Kosi river, which gathers water from Everest, the highest mountains in the world and enters India in Bihar, has rendered useless more than 300km of embankments that had been built to control its ever-angry waters. The effect has... Tropical Storm Gustav gaining strength
UPDATE 5:00 EDT: Here's the latest public storm advisory:"Gustav continues moving northwestward toward Hispaniola. A hurricane warning remains in effect for the south coast of the Dominican Republic from Barahona...Koshi floods continue, urgent measures required
Chief District Officer of Sunsari Durga Bhandari warns that as the flood water is spreading everywhere, more villages could be drowned in floods if immediate control measures are not taken. “If the course of the Koshi River cannot be redirected to its previous condition,... Fay's Spinoff: Extreme Flooding Prompts OKC Rescues as Torrential Rain Lashes...
The weather patterns now soaking large portions of Oklahoma and Texas are definitely out-of-the-ordinary. My desktop radar shows the storms moving in from the southeast, moving west-northwest. This is directly... Vietnam floods 'leave 100 dead'
Flash floods in Vietnam have killed 100 people, and forecasters fear additional casualties as more rain is predicted for Monday. The floods have occured in the country's northern mountain procinves. More than two dozen people are still missing."Flooding and landslides in... 82 dead in Vietnam floods
Reports from sources state that Tropical Storm Kammuri released heavy rains that caused floods and landslides in Vietnam. Reports are currently stating that around 82 people died in the flooding and... Rainfall alert on global warming
"Global warming will exacerbate rainfall extremes - both deluges and droughts - more than most climatologists have predicted, according to a study of satellite data and climate models in the journal Science today.Experts agree that heavy rain will fall more frequently in a... 13 killed as heavy rains lash in India
Heavy rains lashed Indian capital New Delhi on Friday providing much-needed respite from the high humidity existing for the past few days but created a massive traffic jams and brought pot holes on the... Ukraine parliament examines floods after 30 dead
The Ukrainian parliament is now examining the damage that the flooding has caused to their country, after 30 people have died and 18,000 have been evacuated. It rained for five days and caused the rivers to spill... Assam - The Flood Festival continues...
Strange to call a tragedy a festival... right ? But for Indian state Assam, floods are like festivals which keep coming back every year... But not with the joy one would associate with Festivals, only with sorrow and... Plan to send Mideast refugees to Sudan draws protest
Is Sudan the only place to save those refugee?! Is that the right choice?! Do UNCHR fully aware about the safety for those refugee?!"Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may accept...
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