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Four dead after severe floods hit southern Germany
2016-05-30 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Four people died and several more were injured in southern Germany after violent storms with torrential rains caused severe flooding, authorities said. One of those killed was a 13-year-old girl who was hit by a train on Sunday while seeking shelter from the rain under a railway bridge. A 12-year-old boy who was with her was not physically injured but had to receive trauma counselling, police in the city of Aalen said. In Schwäbisch Gmünd near Stuttgart, a volunteer firefighter died on Sunday...
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UK winter floods to cost insurers $2 billion in pay-outs
2016-05-25 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Flood damage in Britain from winter storms has resulted in claims for more than 15,000 homes and businesses and is likely to lead to pay-outs of 1.3 billion pounds ($1.9 billion), the Association of British Insurers estimates. Three winter storms in northern Britain resulted in average household claims of 50,000 pounds, the ABI said on Wednesday, compared with 31,000 pounds during 2013/2014, and an average claim of 25,000 to 30,000 pounds. The higher claims reflected extensive flood damage...
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Sri Lanka floods expected to cost at least $1.5 billion
2016-05-23 12:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The cost of Sri Lanka's landslides and floods will be between $1.5 billion and $2 billion at the minimum, the government said on Monday, as the Indian Ocean island struggles to recover from its worst natural disaster since the 2004 Asia tsunami. The official death toll has risen to 92 but 109 people are feared to have been buried in landslides. Days of torrential rain forced more than 350,000 people from their homes, though many were returning on Monday. Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake...
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United States: Climate change, runaway development worsen Houston floods
2016-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: With clay soil and tabletop-flat terrain, Houston has endured flooding for generations. Its 1,700 miles of man-made channels struggle to dispatch storm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico. Now the nation's fourth-largest city is being overwhelmed with more frequent and more destructive floods. The latest calamity occurred April 18, killing eight people and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. The worsening floods aren't simple acts of nature or just costly local concerns. Federal taxpayers...
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Floods cause deaths and block food aid in drought-hit Ethiopia
2016-04-25 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Flash floods in drought-stricken parts of Ethiopia have killed people and livestock and are blocking food aid deliveries to hungry communities, a charity said. Ethiopians have been waiting for the spring rains to replenish water sources and to plant crops after the most severe drought in decades pushed more than 10 million people into hunger. But many livestock, weakened by the drought, have died following heavy rains in Ethiopia's remote Somali and Afar regions, the Norwegian Refugee Council...
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