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India's 'climate refugees' flee monsoon flooding
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Le Monde: In 2012, out of the millions of people displaced by natural disasters around the world, over a quarter were from northeast India. Almost nine million inhabitants were forced to flee the region's devastating monsoon. These forced displacements are a common occurrence. Floods have become so routine in Assam, a state located at the foothills of the Himalayas, irrigated by one of the world's mightiest river -- the Brahmaputra -- that a special administrative post was created to deal with natural disasters....
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Canada: Severe flooding a sign of future weather woes, UW researcher says
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Record: Extreme rainfall and flooding in Alberta could result in one of the most costly natural disasters in Canadian history -- and it may not be an isolated event. Flooding in southern Alberta that occurred in 2005 was then considered a one-in-100-years disaster, yet the heavy rains this week that have led to flooding in Banff, Canmore, Calgary and south toward Lethbridge have caused more widespread damage than the previous event. According to Jason Thistlethwaite, director of the Climate Change...
Flooding Kills Hundreds in Northern India
2013-06-22 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Flash floods and landslides unleashed by early monsoon rains have killed at least 560 people in northern India and left tens of thousands missing, officials said on Saturday, with the death toll expected to rise significantly. Houses and small apartment blocks on the banks of the Ganges, Indias longest river, have toppled into the rushing, swollen waters and been swept away with cars and trucks. It has been a horrifying experience, said Tulika Srivastava, a visitor from the northern Indian city...
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India Flooding, Landslides Cause 600 Deaths as Stranded Begin to Starve
2013-06-21 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Flooding and landslides in northern India have claimed the lives of at nearly 600 people as the death toll continued to rise throughout the week. Early and abnormally heavy monsoon rains caused the Ganges Rivers and some of its tributaries to flood, triggering landslides that killed or trapped hundreds, while tens of thousands have been left stranded. The Himalayan state of Uttrakhand was among the worst affected regions. People in scores of towns and villages have been stranded by flooding...
Is Alberta Flooding a Sign of Climate Change?
2013-06-21 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: It seems hardly a week goes by when we don't hear some climatologist or other expert say, "it's difficult to connect one particular weather event to global warming, but..." We heard it this week as communities in Calgary and Southern Alberta were evacuated in the face of extreme rainfall and rising floodwaters. The "but," of course, is that we know burning fossil fuels and pumping carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere causes the Earth's average surface temperatures...
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