6th September - Today's News: Severe Floods, Gales Hit Australia
Gale force winds smash NSW coast at the weekend, and today storm hit areas of NSW declared disaster zone. And in Victoria, floods worst in decade and still to peak with floods, landslides, chaos across State.
In the New Zealand earthquake: ground moved by 11ft whilst elsewhere in the country lambs drown as rain floods farmland.
Atlantic Canada recovering from Earl
Mudslides kill at least 38 as bus is buried in Guatemalan storms
Here in Britain there's apparently no chance of an Indian Summer as Autumn rain sets in - yes, it looks like being a wet, unsettled, week; but no it does not mean we won't get an Indian summer in late October or November ..... !
And worrying news for schoolkids as the wet August means Britain could face conker shortage!
Tropical storm Malou churns towards South Korea as typhoon warning issued
In wake of Earl, US eyes other potential storms - with Hermine now declared a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico
Japan's record hot summer isn't over yet: Kyoto bakes as thermometer climbs to 39.9c
Most new farmland in tropics comes from slashing forests - impacting not only on carbon emissions but more significantly on local and regional rainfall patterns. This should be the world's number one environmental priority: stop the slashing and rebuild the rain forests. Especially since erratic rainfall poses growing threat to rural poor. But I guess it's easier to tax petrol and pretend that that'll save the world .....
However it's not all doom and gloom. In a new book, Laurence C Smith predicts global warming's silver lining? Northern countries will thrive and grow.
In Pakistan, mystery shrouds recent floods across the country
In the New Zealand earthquake: ground moved by 11ft whilst elsewhere in the country lambs drown as rain floods farmland.
Atlantic Canada recovering from Earl
Mudslides kill at least 38 as bus is buried in Guatemalan storms
Here in Britain there's apparently no chance of an Indian Summer as Autumn rain sets in - yes, it looks like being a wet, unsettled, week; but no it does not mean we won't get an Indian summer in late October or November ..... !
And worrying news for schoolkids as the wet August means Britain could face conker shortage!
Tropical storm Malou churns towards South Korea as typhoon warning issued
In wake of Earl, US eyes other potential storms - with Hermine now declared a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico
Japan's record hot summer isn't over yet: Kyoto bakes as thermometer climbs to 39.9c
Most new farmland in tropics comes from slashing forests - impacting not only on carbon emissions but more significantly on local and regional rainfall patterns. This should be the world's number one environmental priority: stop the slashing and rebuild the rain forests. Especially since erratic rainfall poses growing threat to rural poor. But I guess it's easier to tax petrol and pretend that that'll save the world .....
However it's not all doom and gloom. In a new book, Laurence C Smith predicts global warming's silver lining? Northern countries will thrive and grow.
In Pakistan, mystery shrouds recent floods across the country
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