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Floods menace towns, power plants in Serbia & Bosnia
2014-05-19 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Communities in Serbia and Bosnia battled to protect towns and power plants on Monday from rising flood waters and landslides that have devastated swathes of both countries and killed dozens of people. Receding waters in some of the areas worst-hit by the heaviest rainfall in the Balkans since records began 120 years ago revealed scenes of devastation - twisted homes, fallen trees and rotting animals. Authorities in Bosnia estimated some 500,000 people had been evacuated or left their homes, the...
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Serbia floods threaten country's biggest power plant
2014-05-19 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Soldiers and energy workers have stacked thousands of sandbags overnight to protect Serbia's biggest power plant from flood waters expected to keep rising after the heaviest rains in the Balkans in more than a century killed dozens of people. On Monday, Bosnian state radio reported that the swollen Sava river, which has wreaked havoc in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, had again overwhelmed flood defences late on Sunday and flooded parts of the northern town of Orasje. Waters receded in other parts...
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37 dead in Balkans worst floods in decades
2014-05-19 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A major rescue operation is underway in Serbia after the regions worst flooding in decades claimed the lives of 37 people, with thousands more forced to flee their homes. Soldiers, police officers and volunteers are also battling to protect local power plants that are situated on the river Sava. The river is experiencing high water levels after three months worth of rain fell in just a few days. According to the EU floods directive, flood alerts remain in place for many parts of the region....
Bosnia floods trigger 3,000 landslides and unearth mines
2014-05-19 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Floodwaters have triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing landmines left over from the region's 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded weapons. The Balkans' worst flooding since record keeping began forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and threatened to inundate Serbia's main power plant, which supplies electricity to a third of the country and most of the capital, Belgrade. Evacuated...
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Russia, EU join aid effort in wake of Balkan floods
2014-05-18 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Russian cargo planes and rescue teams from around Europe on Sunday joined volunteer efforts to provide aid across large swathes of Serbia and Bosnia and parts of eastern Croatia, where at least 24 people have died in the worst floods in over a century. These are the kind of waters not seen in 1,000 years, let alone 100, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a televised cabinet session Sunday. Two Russian Ilyushin-26 cargo planes landed in Serbia carrying food, generators and rescue...
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