State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Floods
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CHINA
Despite the claims made by the Chinese authorities about an improved flood management system, the floods in northeast China have killed 2,000 people and left 14 million people homeless. Analysts
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Flood decontrol
Every action has an opposite and equal reaction. If you embank a river it bursts its embankments. So much for flood control measures
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Waters of woe
The recent spate of floods can easily be interpreted as one of the worst floods of the century for India
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Tale of destruction
MORE than 2,229 lakh trees in 40 coastal villages of four tehsils of Kutch district were totally destroyed during the cyclone which which swept across Gujarat in July this year. More than 7,000
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MONSOON MANIA
More than 23 fishermen have been feared dead and several injured as two boats capsized in the stormy seas in the Bay of Bengal off the southern coast of Bangladesh. Amid renewed fears of flooding,
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FOLLOW UP
China is fighting a "life and death" battle against rising floodwaters which have posed a serious threat to the country's oil hub at Daqing. The Yangtze river is flowing above the danger mark.
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Hell and high water...
...China experiences both as floods imperil the lives of thousands
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Flood havoc
THE usually docile animals of the Kaziranga National Park in Assam, after a month-long desperate attempt to flee incessant floods, hunger and killer vil-lagers, have turned violent. A number of
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DISASTROUS DOWNPOUR
Torrential rains have triggered massive floods in Bangladesh leaving 92 dead and thousands homeless. Over six million people and livestocks have been seriously affected. Reports say that the rising
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Down but not under
The ocean covered about half the surface area of other continents seventy million years ago. However, Australia managed to stay dry. How did it happen? Geophysicist Michael Gurnis of the California