Tag: Natural Disasters - Page 6
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Refugees From East African Drought & Famine Tell Their Harrowing Stories
We've tried painting a compelling picture of the ongoing drought in East Africa, and accompanying famine in parts of Somalia, but without anyone on the ground there we've mostly just used stats and short clips of video. There have been few personal
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29,000 Children Dead Due to East African Famine in Past Three Months (Video)
The drought and accompanying famine in East Africa continues to get worse: Three more regions of Somalia have been declared famine zones--defined as places where at least 20% of households face severe shortages and when more than 2 people in 10,000 die
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Kenyan Refugee Camp For Victims of Record-Breaking Drought Now As Big As Kansas City
Some updates on the ongoing situation in the Horn of Africa, where thousands of people are being forced to flee fromrecord-breaking drought and, in certain places, outright famine--all of which is, at least in part,
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1500+ Cattle Die From Extreme Heat In South Dakota
Twenty-plus people have died from the extreme heat that's been gripping half of the United States for the past several days. But humans aren't the only ones dropping dead: The Mitchell, South Dakota Daily Republic reports that at least 1,500 cattle
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Heat, Drought, Famine All Part Of Coming 'Exponential' Increase Of Climate-Related Disasters
With half of the United States under heat advisories, 22 people dead (and counting) from the extreme weather, the Horn of Africa experiencing the strongest drought in over half a century and famine conditions
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Thousands Climate Refugees Per Day Pushing Into Kenya & Ethiopia As Epic Drought Continues
The epic drought conditions in the Horn of Africa and East Africa that first began coming to light about ten days ago continue to intensify, with what are in effect climate refugees streaming into parts of Somalia and Kenya.
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1 Million Hectares of Colombia Underwater - Climate Change Making La Niña More Intense
Record breaking extreme weather isn't just plaguing the Midwest: Colombia has had 5-6 times more rainfall than usual for the past ten months--which has killed 425 people so far, covered 1 million hectares with water, and left 3 million people as what
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Morocco Timber Mafia Threatens Water Supply By Felling Cedars - Setting Up A Natural Disaster?
Echoes of what contributed to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan last summer: Illegal logging by a timber mafia ("a cedar mafia, an organized mafia") is felling so many of Morocco's iconic cedar trees that the nation's
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Memory, The Most Important Overlooked Environmental Tool?
So much of environmentalism is about looking forward. Looking forward to the more socially and ecologically sustainable world we're trying to create. Looking forward via climate modeling, projections of energy use,
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Earthquake-Prone Chile Won't Give Up Nuclear Plans Yet
Although Latin American countries rely lightly on nuclear power (only Argentina, Brazil and Mexico have plants, which represent only 2% of the region's energy
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Japan Nuclear Disaster Triggers Political Frenzy in Germany
Last Autumn, the German government announced plans to extend the lives of most of the nuclear power plants in Germany, by changing a law that limited the lifespan to a significantly shorter period than safety
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Nuclear Threat Worsens as Japan Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Damage Continues
One Japanese expat blogger reports that life is beginning to return to normal away from the devastated northern coast, with the Shinkansen train running again between Kyoto and Tokyo. But as
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Can Whale Strandings Help Predict Earthquakes?
Earthquakes, like the one that struck in Christchurch, New Zealand yesterday, rank among the most devastating natural disasters, capable of leveling cities and causing extensive loss of life -- largely because they are so
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Tasman Glacier Loses 30 Million Tonnes of Ice After Devastating Earthquake
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck New Zealand's South Island city of Christchurch just before 1 pm local time. Unlike the 7.1 Richter scale quake which occurred in September of 2010 this one has caused extensive
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Gloomy Predictions Made On Effect of Climate Catastrophes in London
Photo: Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones: Parliament Square Time Out, London's weekly events-listing magazine, has asked experts to describe the impact of great catastrophes on the capital city. Many are related to climate change and the outlook is
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Rogue Storm From Bay of Bengal Caused 2010 Pakistan Flooding
We know that illegal logging contributed to the devastation caused by last summer's flooding in Pakistan, when up to 20% of the nation was underwater. New research now sheds light on how so much rain fell: A rogue
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Animals in Brazil Suffering After Disastrous Floods
For the last few days, a dog named Leao has refused to leave the grounds of makeshift cemetery for victims of the worst natural disaster ever to hit Brazil. There, beneath the moist, red mud, lies his owner, Cristina Maria
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Deforestation & Hurricanes May Have Triggered Haiti's Catastrophic 2010 Earthquake
Yet another reason why deforestation is bad: So much of Haiti's mountainsides have been eroded away because of deforestation and hurricanes that it may have stressed Earth's crust, triggering the earthquake that
