Heavy rains in Southern Russia bring fatal floods
An extraordinary rainstorm in southern Russia set off floods that killed at least 104 people on Saturday, according to rescue officials. Many survivors clambered onto roofs or shinned up trees to...
View ArticleEvery network gets extreme weather story right, ‘Now’s The Time We Start...
I have been critical of the media for ignoring the link between man-made global warming and the off-the-charts extreme weather we have been seeing. And many have documented how they have been...
View ArticleWill the Farm Bill prop up doomed crops in this extreme climate?
Things are looking bleak for corn farmers in the Midwest. Drought conditions and above-average temperatures are likely to continue for some time and now even soybeans — corn’s sister commodity — are...
View ArticleHeavy rainfall leaves many dead in China
The heaviest rain to hit Beijing in six decades has killed at least 37 people and left cars and buses submerged, Chinese state media has reported. Xinhua news agency said on Sunday more victims of the...
View ArticleBeijing floods unleash online criticism of government
For 16 hours on Saturday, sheets of unrelenting rain pummeled China’s capital, reportedly the heaviest storm in six decades. By Sunday, Pan Anjun, deputy chief of the Beijing flood control...
View ArticleDeny this: contested Himalayan glaciers really are melting and doing so at a...
Remember when climate change contrarians professed outrage over a few errors in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s last report? One of their favorite such mistakes involved an...
View ArticleHeavy rains hit North Korea after extreme drought
HEAVY rain has pounded North Korea for a second day, submerging buildings, cutting off power, flooding rice paddies and forcing people and their livestock to reach safety on dry rooftops. The latest...
View ArticleTwo dead as storms hit Austria, Northern Italy
Vienna. Storms wreaked havoc in Austria and northern Italy over the weekend, causing landslides that killed two people, authorities said Sunday, cited by AFP. An 84-year-old woman was killed when a...
View ArticleNorth India floods cause devastation
Flash floods triggered by heavy rains in two mountainous north Indian states have killed one person and left 26 others, mostly power plant workers, missing, officials said Saturday. Nineteen workers...
View ArticleUS call for "flexibility" on warming spurs row
The United States ran into crossfire on Wednesday after it called for "flexibility" in climate talks yet acknowledged this may not guarantee meeting the UN's target on global warming. Europe and...
View ArticlePhilippines storm once again bringing floods and landslides
Four people were killed as another tropical storm swept across the Philippines on Wednesday, triggering landslides in the mountainous north and dumping more heavy rain on the flood-battered capital....
View ArticleBeekeepers feel the sting of climate change
"Better stay back. They're getting mad!" Jeremy Jelinek hollers over the angry buzzing of his beehives. Jelinek, a Michigan beekeeper, has been stung more times than he can count. On this day, he is...
View Articlehttp://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-biblical-type-floods-real-absolut...
After teaching geology at the University of Washington for a decade, I had become embarrassed that I hadn’t yet seen the deep canyons where tremendous Ice Age floods scoured down into solid rock to...
View ArticleArctic Tipping Point: A North Pole Without Ice
As the northern summer draws to a close, two milestones have been reached in the Arctic Ocean — record-low sea ice extent, and an even more dramatic new low in Arctic sea ice volume. This extreme...
View ArticleSudden spikes in global food prices to become "the norm"
Food price spikes caused by extreme weather events like the US drought will become the norm over the next twenty years, leading to millions of deaths from malnutrition among the world’s poorest if...
View ArticleBiblical-Type Floods Are Real, and They're Absolutely Enormous
Geologists long rejected the notion that cataclysmic flood had ever occurred—until one of them found proof of a Noah-like catastrophe in the wildly eroded river valleys of Washington State. After...
View ArticleWelcome To The Rest Of Our Lives
CEO Tillerson of EXXON thinks, " We'll adapt to that." Easy to say when you are a rich man making money off the chaos. Patently immoral. added by: JanforGore 50 comments
View ArticleNigeria: floods of fury across the states
Hundreds of communities across several states are currently grappling with the devastating effects of flooding caused by heavy rains and water released from some dams in the country and Cameroun,...
View ArticleFlash floods kill 10 in Spain as torrential rains wreck havoc
At least 10 people, three of them children, died after torrential rain triggered flash floods across a swath of southern Spain and another 35 were injured when a tornado swept through a fairground,...
View ArticlePakistan floods kill 371 affect 4.47 million
Monsoon floods in Pakistan have killed 371 people and affected nearly 4.5 million, the government's disaster relief agency said on Friday. Pakistan has suffered devastating floods in the past two...
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