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Throughout last year, heat and precipitation levels in the United States reached historic levels, and were accompanied by extensive flooding and other severe weather events. Combined, these occurrences led to 2011 establishing a high number of records as far as climate extremes go.
Some of these unusual weather pat... |
20 January 2012
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As floods and landslides have buried more than 1,000 people and disrupted the balance of almost 338,000 others in 13 provinces, authorities are now trying to identify the cause.
Most experts agree on the fact that climate change and deforestation have played an important part in this equation, amplifying the traged... |
22 December 2011
02:36 GMT |
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The Philippines President Benigno Aquino is struggling to restore the balance of his country, after deadly floods and landslides have killed approximately 957 people and made other 49 disappear. Collapsed houses and streets buried in mud are part of an apocalyptic landscape, Gulfnews informs. Two of the most affe... |
20 December 2011
02:23 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new report released by CoreLogic, it would appear that floods and other extreme weather events triggered by global warming cost the United States more than $10 billion for 2011. The report is freely available after completing a short registration process, here. The document, entitled... |
19 December 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Images collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard the NASA Terra satellite reveals the extent of the floods that affected New South Wales, Australia, this November. The area imaged is usually a rather solid green. Shades of blue represent flood waters and their depth, wh... |
16 December 2011
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The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument aboard the NASA Terra spacecraft captured this view of catastrophic floods affecting Thailand on October 23. The catastrophe was caused by heavy monsoon rains that have been pouring since this July.
Even the capital city of Bangkok... |
28 October 2011
01:36 GMT |
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Investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have determined in a new research that the concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth's atmosphere is only weakly correlated to the size of floods affecting North America.
The team is however keen to point out that these results do not exclude f... |
25 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Throughout late October, Mexico has been plagued by floods, especially in its southeastern areas. Authorities say that a number of rivers eventually got so engorged that they filled the surrounding landscape, causing considerable damage. The American space agency is helping Mexican authorities by providing them with ... |
25 October 2011
01:20 GMT |
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The Indian province of Bihar is seen in this image submerged in torrents of water, during some of the most severe floods to affect the area this year. The event began in early October, and are currently subsiding, to some extent. The walls of water are responsible for drowning entire villages, killing both humans and... |
22 October 2011
05:58 GMT |
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The aftermath of the massive floods that affected Pakistan this summer are visible in this new image provided by the NASA Earth Observatory. The natural disasters – caused by extremely heavy monsoon rains – affected no less than 5.4 million people.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordin... |
8 October 2011
11:01 GMT |
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According to reports published by the Hindustan Times newspaper, the Indian state of Orissa has been plagued by massive floods throughout September. The heavy rainfall that caused the disasters came in two waves, one at the beginning of the months, and the second one a few days ago. The newspaper indicates that the s... |
28 September 2011
06:46 GMT |
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Experts in the United States anticipated that this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone will be the largest ever recorded. The phenomenon's usual spread will be augmented by the Mississippi River floods that scarred the central United States earlier this year. University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scav... |
15 June 2011
08:40 GMT |
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During the second half of 2010, Pakistan was severely affected by floods. The effects of the disastrous events were seen even from satellites and astronauts in space, but some of them have eluded detection until recently. Such is the case of tree-based spider colonies. As 20 percent of the country's territory be... |
31 March 2011
03:25 GMT |
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The spring flooding season has already began in parts of the United States, specialists say, but has not yet manifested itself entirely. Forecasters with specialized agencies announce that the worst has yet to come. When it does, people need to be ready.Over the next few weeks, about half the country will be subjecte... |
18 March 2011
09:04 GMT |
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According to the latest archaeological evidence, it would appear that the Black Sea basin was heavily battered by numerous floods over the past hundreds of thousands of years. Clues that this happened were discovered on the walls of caves in surrounding countries. In a new study, an international collaboration of sc... |
17 March 2011
06:14 GMT |
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Satellites operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) will form the backbone of a new, early warning flood monitoring system. Earth-observing spacecraft will play a fundamental part in the shaping of new defense mechanisms, meant to avoid bad outcomes following natural crisis.Climate experts believe that the recent ... |
26 January 2011
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Newly-discovered evidence show that, once every 100 to 300 years, a major megastorm hits the portion of the United States West Coast that now makes up California. The damages this natural event causes are widespread, and its effects if it were to hit today would be catastrophic.According to simulations of what would ... |
24 January 2011
04:48 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec warn that scammers have started taking advantage of the floods that hit several countries recently and this trend is only expected to increase.In recent weeks, serious floods have affected regions of Australia, Brazil and the Philippines, and, unfortunately, these natural disasters ... |
21 January 2011
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Given the large number of flooding events that have taken place recently, and that are still unfolding in some ares of the world, climatologists are seeking to determine what caused such natural disasters. Their conclusion was that the intensification of La Nina was responsible for the devastation.La Nina is an atmos... |
18 January 2011
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In a new analysis released today, January 10, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) draws attention on a series of ecological disasters that are currently ongoing off the coasts of Australia, and which threaten habitats, ecosystems, biodiversity and the Great Barrier Reef. The GBR is considered to be the world's largest... |
10 January 2011
05:50 GMT |
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The Australian “Wheatbelt,” an area of the country that, as the name implies, is responsible for producing the majority of the country's grains, has just turned green from yellow, after being drenched by powerful rains. This change in fortune for farmers in the area came in late 2010, and was so inte... |
23 December 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Houston are currently working on developing a new technology, that will allow for the creation of flood mapping systems that function in real time. The system is designed to address flash floods, which are produced after intense thunderstorms and heavy rains, and which are nothing... |
24 September 2010
09:55 GMT |
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Officials from NOAA announce that they have just launched a one-time initiative to educate coastal communities in the United States about the risks they are subjected to as global warming develops. The phenomenon can trigger temperature patterns shift, and create abnormal precipitations. In addition, excessive heat c... |
11 September 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Researchers say that existing or planned infrastructure, such as buildings, roads and so on, could be successfully used to produce meaningful defense barriers that would protect people against flooding.The new work shows that roads, for instance, could represent a highly-efficient barrier in the path of raging waters... |
6 September 2010
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they are aiding authorities in Pakistan manage the consequences of the disaster floods that struck the country recently.The waters devastated around 33 percent of the country's surface, affecting an estimate 20 million people. It therefore stands to reas... |
2 September 2010
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The Isle of Wight is one of the richest places on Earth when it comes to dinosaur fossils and a new study revealed that it was fires and floods some 130 million years ago that made this place so “popular”. When dinosaurs lived and walked the earth, the climate was much warmer than today and on the Isle o... |
24 August 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Using data collected via its Earth-observing satellites, the American space agency is currently piecing together a clear picture of what happened just before, during and after the massive wave of floods that affected Pakistan in late July 2010.According to official statistics, it would appear that about 20 percent of... |
21 August 2010
05:08 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the Purdue University has determined in a new study that the best methods of reducing future water runoff and flooding risks is to increase the land surface covered in forests, and also to control the growth of urban environments.The research is based on a computer model and a simulation of h... |
19 August 2010
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According to a new series of observations conducted using the NASA Cassini spacecraft, it would appear that the Xanadu region of the Saturnine moon Titan is paved with sparkling crystal ice balls. The science team managing the long-lived space probe, which has been orbiting Saturn since July 1, 2004, says that the ma... |
12 May 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Geologists were recently able to confirm older hypothesis saying that, millennia ago, a large portion of what is now Alaska was inundated with massive amounts of water. The researchers determined that a massive flood took place at an area covering the Copper River Basin northeast of Anchorage, no more than 17,000 yea... |
6 May 2010
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Geologists are very familiar with the Younger Dryas period, which occurred some 13,000 ears ago. It's not like something out of this world happened at this point, but geological records would seem to indicate that, just as the planet was exiting the last ice age, a new cold spell lasting several millennia struck... |
1 April 2010
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Geologists studying how the Mediterranean Sea formed now propose that the large body of water that separates Europe from Africa must have been created when waters from the Atlantic Ocean breached the strait of Gibraltar. They hypothesize that a large basin lay just below the strait's barrier, and that it was wel... |
10 December 2009
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Hurricane Katrina (2005), one of the largest natural disasters in the history of the United States, is still a fresh memory in the minds of New Orleans residents, and of citizens across the country. The unimaginable extent of the damages caused by the floods left authorities at the time wondering where to start rescu... |
1 December 2009
08:22 GMT |
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The Italian city of Venice is one of the most beautiful, culturally rich and endangered places in the world. With its homes built atop petrified trees, and directly on water, it stands to reason that any change in water levels has the power to significantly damage the 1,300-year-old town. It is located in the largest... |
21 September 2009
09:10 GMT |
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According to the latest numbers released by the UK Environment Agency, more than one sixth of British homes are at risk of floods, and existing measures to stop that may not do too great of a job in stopping it from happening. Additionally, the report says, global warming and climate change may significantly raise th... |
19 June 2009
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According to a new scientific study, conducted by experts at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the coasts of the United States and Canada may actually be more in danger than previous models have predicted. The largest threat comes from the melting ice sheet of Greenland, which, if separated from... |
28 May 2009
10:43 GMT |
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One of the most severe byproducts of global warming and climate change is increasing and widespread drought, which will affect a large number of nations in the future, especially those in regions already prone to experiencing such phenomena. Paradoxically, increased droughts will be joined by massive flooding, but ba... |
13 May 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Following a new scientific study commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), researchers have learned that Asia, in general, and especially its southeastern parts will be most severely affected by global warming and climate change until the end of the century. The shifts in weather patterns, sea levels and prec... |
27 April 2009
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According to scientific predictions, the rising incidence of global warming-related phenomena, such as intense and powerful storms, floods and droughts, will force millions of people out of their homes, located in areas more prone to feeling these effects of climate change. As the atmosphere becomes clogged with carb... |
2 April 2009
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Newcastle University experts have only recently devised a groundbreaking mathematical model that could potentially be used to assess the risk of a tsunami occurring, to determine which area is most likely to get hit and in what time frame the destructive wave will reach the coast. It goes without saying that such a m... |
1 April 2009
08:50 GMT |
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According to researchers at the Florida State University (FSU), sea levels in the New York area, as well as in adjacent regions, could rise twice as fast by 2100 than the global means. In other words, while ocean levels in India, Europe and Japan will also increase, they will do so constantly, while on the Eastern co... |
16 March 2009
07:59 GMT |
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The Black Sea, located in Eastern Europe, south of Russia and north of Turkey, was thought to hold some of the answers researchers studying the flood myths that occured in most civilizations were looking for. Now, new data gathered from the delta of the Danube River, which pours itself into the Black Sea, shows that ... |
23 January 2009
10:19 GMT |
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The major coal ash spill that occurred in eastern Tennessee on Monday covered an area of approximately 400 acres in debris from a retention lake near the Kingston Fossil Plant. The Tennessee Valley Authority, the largest utility company in the United States, assured the locals that the water was safe to drink, despit... |
29 December 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Days of torrential rain have turned a significant part of Brazilian soil into a swamp and prompted massive floods and landslides in several areas of the country. From preliminary estimates, authorities reported 59 dead and nearly 44,000 uprooted by the massive weather anomaly, which struck the state of Santa Caterina... |
25 November 2008
09:06 GMT |
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The small oceanic nation, composed of some 1,200 islands, is located south of India, and it is mainly known as a touristic attraction. But, over the past few years, it has received extensive media coverage, as one of the nations to be severely affected by global warming and climate change. Most of its territory is lo... |
11 November 2008
02:19 GMT |
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While for some countries global warming is only a distant concept, for others it's a harsh reality and a major threat, as demonstrated by the fact that several Indonesian islands have already sunk, while many more are in danger of disappearing in 20 to 40 years, due to sea level rises, caused by global warming. ... |
3 November 2008
04:27 GMT |
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