The Asia-Pacific Human Development Report 2012
UNDP: The Asia-Pacific region must continue to grow economically to lift millions out of poverty,…
ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
HuffPost: Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual…
(AlertNet) – Asia Pacific could triple its carbon emissions by 2050 if it continues its unsustainable use of resources, putting…
Guardian: Combined estimates from other insurance groups have already put total cost of Thai natural disaster at $15bn to $20bn.…
Tropical cyclones will cause $109 billion in damages by 2100, according to Yale and MIT researchers in a paper published in…
Ecologist: Some 60 million people depend on the Mekong River for their livelihoods but sea level rise and severe weather…
(IPS) Bangladesh: With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant…
Millions of people in South Asia are vulnerable to climate change because of depleting glaciers, increasing coastal erosion, frequent floods…
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(IRIN) – Rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam’s fertile Mekong Delta are forcing farmers and development…
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
Philippine Red Cross: Tropical Storm Sendong (international name: Washi) ravaged Mindanao, slamming it with devastating rains and unleashing flash floods…
Bloomberg: Thailand’s worst floods in more than a half century may have wiped out as much as 14 percent of…
ICIMOD: Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia’s mountainous Hindu…
E&E: China has set ambitious goals for itself to develop hydropower to help mitigate the risks of climate change, but…
Thailand is currently facing its worst flooding in 50 years. Flood waters have swamped more than two-thirds of the country,…
International Business Times: The southwestern region of China has 23,488 glaciers that cover an area of just slightly smaller than…
(AlertNet) – In a pediatric hospital in North Korea’s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All…
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…
Oct. 6 (UPI) — Northern and eastern Afghanistan is facing a severe drought affecting more than 12 million people, the…
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…
KARACHI, Pakistan (AlertNet) – As population growth and climate change increase competition for water around the world, India and Pakistan…
Guardian : Last year’s floods in Pakistan are considered to be one of the worst natural disasters in history. As a…
(Reuters) – Three Himalaya glaciers have been shrinking over the last 40 years due to global warming and two of…
UNEP: Geneva, 11 July 2011-Boosting cooperation between countries sharing the waters of the Amu Darya, Central Asia’s longest river, could…
Torrential rain in Niigata and Fukushima prefectures in northern Japan has caused rivers to overflow, raising the danger…
A hot, gritty wind carries the stench of pit latrines across a refugee camp on the western outskirts of Karachi,…
UNDP: Himalayan Meltdown, now airing on Discovery Channel Asia, examines how communities in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India and Nepal seek…
Guardian: This week in Cape Town, the World Bank will decide whether to approve new climate adaptation loans for five…
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations and burned…
BEIJING, April 20 (Reuters) – Gradually rising sea levels caused by global warming over the past 30 years have contributed…
While scientists and the international community endlessly debate and argue, millions of Bangladeshi citizens have already been displaced by climate…
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1. Since the 1950s, spring has been starting earlier in the western U.S.. The onset of spring now starts,…
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…
