ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…
AUS Bureau of Meteorology: Frequent heavy rain events from spring 2010 to autumn 2011, and again in late 2011, lead…
Guardian: Combined estimates from other insurance groups have already put total cost of Thai natural disaster at $15bn to $20bn.…
GFDRR: Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge. It is a global phenomenon which causes widespread devastation, economic…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Picture this: a terrible drought forces you to abandon your meager plot of farmland, so you migrate…
Aon Benfield: Published by Impact Forecasting, the firm’s catastrophe model development center of excellence, the report reveals that the worst…
Guardian: Authorities urged to tackle urban planning issues amid concerns climate change puts Thai capital at risk of more frequent…
Guardian: The aftermath of the flooding which which affected about 143,000 people in 13 southern and central provinces
UNFCC: Building on recent reviews on climate change impacts on freshwater resources and adaptation strategies, this technical paper analyses existing…
Thailand is currently facing its worst flooding in 50 years. Flood waters have swamped more than two-thirds of the country,…
(Reuters) – Thailand is struggling with its worst flooding in 50 years, which has affected a third of its provinces…
Weather Underground: A week of torrential rains across Central America have triggered extreme floods and landslides that have killed 105 people,…
Climate Central: Climate scientists have been wrestling with the first question for a while now, and they still don’t really…
Oct 12 (Reuters) – Thailand’s worst floods in half a century have inundated farms and mills, squeezing rice supplies from…
(Reuters) – Thailand raced on Tuesday to build floodwalls on the outskirts of Bangkok to prevent the worst floods in…
(Reuters) – Thai rescue workers scrambled on Monday to prevent a humanitarian disaster as the worst flooding in half a…
Ebeling Heffernan: About 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of paddy fields in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos have been…
UNHCR: In some of the worst-hit districts in Sindh province, flood victims continue to go hungry. With no access to…
UNISDR: Heavy rains due to the monsoon season have already claimed hundreds of lives and adversely affected millions of people…
FAO: Heavy monsoon rains that began in mid-August destroyed or damaged 73 percent of crops and 67 percent of food stocks…
AlertNet: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is seeking US$ 33.2 million to fund the…
UNITAR: This map presents the standing flood waters over the affected Provinces of Lower Sindh, Pakistan following recent heavy monsoon…
AlertNet - Monsoon rain crippled Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi on Tuesday, and the unpopular government came under pressure to provide…
(Reuters) – Surging flood waters in northern and eastern India have affected millions of people, forcing many from their homes…
AlertNet: Heavy monsoon rains in the Satkhira and Khulna districts in southwest Bangladesh have forced 700,000 people to flee their…
WRI’s portal for water risk analysis. This website contains information on the Aqueduct project, and the prototype of the Water…
Guardian : Last year’s floods in Pakistan are considered to be one of the worst natural disasters in history. As a…
Scientific American published a three-part series authored by award-winning science journalist John Carey and commissioned by the Pew Center on Global…
A hot, gritty wind carries the stench of pit latrines across a refugee camp on the western outskirts of Karachi,…
The Global Flood Detection System monitors floods worldwide using near-real time satellite data. Surface water extent is observed using passive…
The continuously rising Souris River has already reached a record high, set in 1881, in Minot, N.D., and it’s still…
Torrential rain continues to cause deadly flooding in parts of central and southern China. Millions of people have been evacuated…
Flood-hit areas of central and southern China braced for more heavy rains after millions of people were…
Individual weather events are not “caused” by any single phenomenon—and climate change’s contribution to individual events will not be resolved…
BEIJING, June 16 – Pelting rain in parts of central and southern China has forced hundreds of thousands of people…
YouTube: an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
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BERLIN, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – Extreme weather conditions across Europe have transformed the continent into a climatic roller…
Geneva/Oslo, 6 June 2011 – Over 42 million people across the world were forced to flee due to disasters triggered…
Climate is a key determinant for today’s demography. Climatic conditions change over time due to natural climate variability, but changes…
In the past year, the world has seen a large number of extreme weather events, from the Russian heat wave…
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The Mississippi River is expected to produce record flooding this week through parts of Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. Historic flood…
Crews are measuring the amount of water spilling into the New Madrid floodway after the intentional breaching of the Birds…
Floods, earthquakes, landslides: 2011 is a year of disasters. Bill McKibben asks: are we to blame? Plus, survivors tell their…
Out of the 39 flood deaths confirmed yesterday, 17 were in Nakhon Si Thammarat, nine in Surat Thani, seven in…
