Source: CNN By Steve Almasy and Faith Karimi, CNN As Hurricane Irma’s eye roars away from the tiny island of Barbuda and toward St. Martin, residents along its path scrambled […]
ABS-CBN — MANILA (UPDATED) – Typhoon Ruby (international name Hagupit) has left at least 8 people dead in the Visayas, authorities said late Sunday night. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said two people in Iloilo — Thea Rojo from Balasan and Ernesto Baylon from Estancia — […]
The NewYork Times: by SARA DINATALE, LAUREN D’AVOLIO and MARC SANTORA — Snow covered a street in south Buffalo on Wednesday. LANCASTER, N.Y. — A powerful snowstorm has swept across western New York, creating snow drifts as high as houses, trapping people in their homes and forcing hundreds of motorists to abandon their cars on […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=world/2013/11/07/sot-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-chad-myers-12p.cnn&contentId=world/2013/11/07/sot-typhoon-haiyan-philippines-chad-myers-12p.cnn (CNN) — Thousands of people in vulnerable areas of the Philippines are being relocated as the strongest storm on the planet so far this year spins toward the country. With […]
BBC News: by Rebecca Morelle. Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests. US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war. The team […]
Source: Smithsonian.com. If you feel sluggish and have difficulty getting physical work done on very hot, humid days, it’s not your imagination. Our bodies are equipped with an adaptation to handle high temperatures—perspiration—but sweating becomes ineffective at cooling us down when the air around us is extremely humid. Add in […]
RT: A state of emergency has been declared in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and Maine with citizens being warned to stay indoors. A potentially record-breaking snow storm has brought the US northeast to a grinding halt and left one dead. Thousands lost power amid flight cancelations and a nuclear […]
RT: Unrelenting snowfalls have caused unprecedented travel chaos in Russia. Over the past week the country has seen scores of traffic accidents, flight delays, and in some cases, the complete isolation of some remote settlements and towns. As more than 10 inches of snow fell in Moscow – more than […]
(CNN) — Rescue crews in the Philippines worked Wednesday to overcome washed-out roads, downed power lines and poor communications as they tried to reach what’s left of remote villages to search for hundreds of people missing after a powerful typhoon. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless after Typhoon […]
Philippine News: MANILA (AFP) – Emergency relief officials and doctors deployed to flood devastated communities in the Philippines Sunday to prevent outbreaks of disease as the death toll jumped to 85. The flooding that submerged 80 percent of Manila early in the week has largely subsided but more than 150 […]
Philippine News: MANILA, Philippines — Relentless rains submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital, triggered a landslide that killed nine people and sent emergency crews scrambling Tuesday to rescue tens of thousands of residents who called media outlets pleading for help. The deluge, the worst since 2009 when hundreds died […]
Philippine News: Philippine flood:Death toll mounts to 51 Manila: The death toll from over a week of floods in the Philippines rose to 51 as rain continued to pour, causing dams to overflow and forcing more people to flee their homes, officials said on Monday. The number of deaths, previously […]
PhilippinesNews MANILA, Philippines — A typhoon dumped torrents of rain as it swept past the Philippines, killing at least seven people and displacing more than 20,000 others by Tuesday. Another storm lashed the capital and neighboring provinces, leaving several parts of Manila without power and under water. The wild weather […]
Source : NY Times. Some of the weather extremes bedeviling people around the world have become far more likely because of human-induced global warming, researchers reported on Tuesday. Yet they ruled it out as a cause of last year’s devastating floods in Thailand, one of the most striking weather events […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s magnetic field is about to be shaken like a snow globe by the largest solar storm in five years. After hurtling through space for a day and a half, a massive cloud of charged particles is due to arrive early Thursday and could disrupt utility grids, […]
Windows were shattered, an abandoned building collapsed and people rushed out of homes, offices and schools in a scene a mayor likened to a street fiesta but with “everyone anxious and panicky” as a 5.2-magnitude quake struck Masbate City on Tuesday. The quake, according to volcanologists, was triggered by the […]
At least 112 people have died so far in a brutal cold front moving across Eastern Europe. In many Eastern cities the homeless are being rounded up and taken into heated tents, while in one part of Serbia its estimated that 11,000 villagers have been stranded by the snow. Click here to […]
Source: BBC The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted several decades before the event, according to researchers. Analysis of rock crystals from the Greek island of Santorini suggests eruptions are preceded by a fast build-up of magma underground, which might be detected using […]
Chilka Lake, Asia’s largest inland brackish lagoon and second largest lagoon in the World is facing challenges emerging out of climate change. Chilika, being home for a number of threatened […]
Source: Spiegel International International attempts at climate regulation have failed on a number of levels. With CO2 emissions rising much more than predicted between 2009 and 2010, the goal of capping global warming at a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius now seems elusive. But political interest in changing course has waned. […]