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Climate change not mentioned in debates for first time in a generation
History was made at the third and final presidential debate at Lynn University on Monday night. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, sparred over American policy in Libya...
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Venice floods five feet above normal- evacuations in Tuscany
Floodwaters drenched most of the tourist destination of Venice and led to the evacuation of 200 people in Tuscany, as bad weather hit northern Italy at the weekend, authorities said Sunday.In Venice...
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Our Clarion Call For Water
In all of my years of writing about and observing trends in water globally I have decided to affix the term "water abuse" to the description of what mankind is now doing to our global water resources....
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More Floods as Heavy Rain and Strong Winds Hit UK
Flood warnings are in place after more heavy rain began to fall in already saturated parts of the UK, accompanied by strong winds.The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for heavy rain in...
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Woman dies as hundreds flee homes in flooded Welsh city
An elderly woman was found dead in her flooded home in the tiny Welsh city of St Asaph on Tuesday after the nearby river burst its banks on the seventh day of torrential rains across Britain.The...
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Thinking the unthinkable: What if America's leaders actually want...
Excerpt of two paragraphs of original article at link above: By Dave Lindorff"What if the leaders of the United States -- and by leaders I mean the generals in the Pentagon, the corporate executives of...
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Nigeria flood victims face new hardship: Going home
by Staff WritersNigeria's worst flooding in decades has submerged houses and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, so Gibson Orlu was shocked when authorities at a relief camp told him to return...
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Top 10 extreme weather events of 2012
11 billion dollar disasters just coming under the 14 billion dollar disasters of 2011. Yet this was not important enough to be mentioned at the presidential debates in 2012, nor to be addressed by this...
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Thousands flee Malaysia floods-dam wall broken
by Staff Writers Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 26, 2012Floods triggered by torrential monsoon rains in Malaysia forced almost 14,000 people to flee their homes and seek shelter at relief centres, the official...
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Manmade global warming has increased monthly heat records by a factor of five
Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, as measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there are now five times as many record-breaking hot months worldwide than could...
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Urgent CO2 cuts may spare millions hardship: report
Tens of millions of people may be spared droughts and floods by 2050 if Earth-warming carbon emissions peak in 2016 rather than 2030, scientists said on Sunday.Climate researchers in Britain and...
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Thousands flee from deadly Jakarta floods
A state of emergency has been declared in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, where three people have died as large swathes of the city grapples with unprecedented flooding.The centre of Jakarta, including...
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Floods soak dozens of villages in Jakarta
Floods soak dozens of villages in Jakarta. http://www.citizenside.com/en/videos/environment/2013-01-17/73643/floods-soak-do... added by: ajriya 0 comments
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Evacuations ordered as rain pours down in Central Queensland
MASSIVE outflows from two central Queensland dams have prompted authorities to order evacuations as the state's flood crisis worsens.The community of Goovigen, about 160km west of Gladstone, is...
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Five Tornadoes Hit Queensland Towns
Unprecedented rain expected over 24 hours. Brisbane was on standby on Saturday for its worst flooding since the disaster of 2011.By Ellen Lutton | January 27, 2013SEVERAL areas of Queensland have been...
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Destructive winds and heavy rains in Australia
THE WEATHER bureau has warned of heavy rain and destructive winds of up to 125km/h for Brisbane from tonight as central Queensland is slammed by severe weather. The bureau issued the alert this evening...
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Mass evacuations under way in flood hit Mozambique
The Mozambican authorities raced to evacuate tens of thousands of residents from the flood-drenched south of the country on Wednesday before a fresh swell of water hits.The first phase of the emergency...
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Floods Worsen in Eastern Australia
"We are at a point where we've never seen floodwaters like this before." 28 Jan 2013 10:40Campbell Newman, Queensland premier, said there was an acute emergency unfolding in Bundaberg, home to about...
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Bundaberg residents return home after Queensland's latest flood
Bundaberg residents have returned to the town to inspect the damage and start the long job of cleaning up. The scene confronting them is one of absolute devastation, with many more homes than expected...
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The sound of climate silence: Romney and Obama spar on who wants to drill for...
“The door is closing. I am very worried – if we don’t change direction now on how we use energy, we will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the minimum [for climate safety]. The door will be...
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