Why Was Texas so Susceptible to Hurricane Harvey and How Does Climate Change Contribute?

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:48:00 +0200zmescience (en)

The impact Hurricane Harvey had on Texas took the world by surprise. No one expected this little wisp of a storm to collect so much power so quickly or to dump so much rain on the unsuspecting state. Why was the Lone Star State so susceptible to the fury of Hurricane Harvey, and how did climate....

Before Houston flooded, there was Piura, Peru PRI

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:15:00 +0200msn-uk (en)

© Credit: Luis Guillen/Reuters This is an aerial view of flooded streets in Piura, northern Peru, March 28, 2017. The weather in the Peruvian city of Piura has been extremely unusual for the last couple of years. First came a crippling drought in 2016 that dragged on so long, the government declared a state of emergency.

Spotlight Water and climate change

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:24:00 +0200trust (en)

Water and climate change Updated: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 In parched lands, families grow food in gardens using drip irrigation, hydroponics and soil moisture sensors to cut down on over-irrigation and save water By Thin Lei Win | Fri, 10 Mar 2017; From its deepest aquifers to its biggest rivers, India ....

Before Houston flooded, there was Piura, Peru

Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:35:00 +0200globalpost (en)

Yet what happened on March 27 shocked everyone. “Please, we urgently need help,” cried Aracely Chero Mendoza, a resident of a neighborhood called Pedregal Chico which sits very close to Piura’s major river. Mendoza was calling a local professor she knew to get the word out that water was rushing into her village.

India: India: After floods, comes drought: 235 districts face monsoon deficit of 20% or more

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 09:44:00 +0200reliefWeb (en)

Amit Bhattacharya | TNN | Updated: Sep 14, 2017, 08:30 IST. HIGHLIGHTS The monsoon deficit in west UP stands at 37%, highest for any subdivision in the country. IMD believes the 2nd half of Sept could bring better rains in central India . Situation in northwest may not change much, there are....

235 districts face monsoon deficit of 20% or more

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 08:01:00 +0200economictimes (en)

Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh are the hardest hit states, showing rain deficits of 31%, 28% and 25%, respectively.... NEW DELHI: Around 235 districts across the country face the prospect of this year as the monsoon appears headed for a below-normal performance, with the season’s deficit currently at 6.

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Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:32:00 +0200EC (en)

Commissioner Stylianides announced a EUR 3 million allocation for the victims of this crisis. More than 379 000 refugees have crossed into Bangladesh since 25 August. This corresponds to approximately one third of the estimated Rohingya population in Myanmar.

David Brooks: Harvey, Irma, Jose and … Noah

Wed, 13 Sep 2017 06:24:00 +0200amestrib (en)

By David Brooks New York Times. Is there anything we can learn from hurricanes, storms and floods? People have been asking that question for thousands of years, and telling stories that try to make sense of natural disasters. These flood myths are remarkably similar to one another. A researcher named John D.

Huracanes Harvey, Irma y José evidencian que el cambio climático es real y empeora

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:24:00 +02005septiembre (es)

Dos huracanes a la vez podría ser una coincidencia, pero tres de estos fenómenos climáticos al mismo tiempo prueban que el calentamiento global es real y está empeorando, aseguran varios científicos citados por el diario británico Independent En las últimas semanas, las regiones del Caribe y América....

Brooks: Harvey, Irma, Jose .... and Noah

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 21:05:00 +0200eastoregonian (en)

Is there anything we can learn from hurricanes, storms and floods? People have been asking that question for thousands of years, and telling stories that try to make sense of natural disasters. These flood myths are remarkably similar to one another. A researcher named John D.

MIT used social media to create hurricane Irma risk map

Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:42:00 +0200digitaljournal (en)

- The Urban Risk Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has launched Riskmap.us an open source platform designed to track flooding from Hurricane Irma in the southern Florida county of Broward. The project provided citizens and planners updates in real time. People could submit reports via Facebook, Twitter, or Telegram .

Inundaciones: pocos prestan atención a este detalle

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 14:20:00 +0200es-noticias (es)

(Reuters) Se verán más imágenes de evacuados por inundaciones subiendo a embarcaciones de rescate con sus mascotas y posesiones a menos que las ciudades aprovechen la oportunidad para construir mecanismos de prevención sencillos y otros tecnológicamente elaborados en las infraestructuras futuras, dijeron expertos.

Hurricane Irma batters Florida, three feared dead as authorities issue flood al...

Sun, 10 Sep 2017 20:14:00 +0200HindustanTimes (en)

Hurricane Irma made landfall on Florida’s southern islands on Sunday and claimed three lives as millions of people, including thousands of India n-Americans, evacuated the state in the wake of the storm that left a trail of death and destruction across the Caribbean.

One Major Lesson From the Disastrous Floods Around the World: We've Been Building Cities All Wrong

Sun, 10 Sep 2017 10:01:00 +0200alternet (en)

When the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlán in 1325, they built it on a large island on Lake Texcoco. Its eventual 200,000-plus inhabitants relied on canals, levees, dikes, floating gardens, aqueducts and bridges for defense, transportation, flood control, drinking water and food.

Somos insignificantes y estúpidos

Sun, 10 Sep 2017 07:16:00 +0200laestrella (es)

Los seres humanos somos insignificantes, a pesar de creernos la tapa del coco y la última soda del desierto (con gas y fría), no somos más que bichos defectuosos, que, además, por mandato de un dios con malas pulgas, nos pensamos que podemos comernos el mundo y sus alrededores y nadie nos va a pasar la cuenta después del festín.

Hurricane Harvey likely to be one of the costliest natural disasters on record for US economy, according to Aon report

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 17:14:00 +0200kswo (en)

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Hurricane Harvey likely to be one of the costliest natural disasters on record for US economy, according to Aon report

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:59:00 +0200prnewswire (en)

. Harvey damage to minimally cost US economy tens of billions of dollars. CHICAGO Sept. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Aon Benfield's catastrophe model development team, today launches the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster....

Hurricane Harvey likely to be one of the costliest natural disasters on record for US economy, according to Aon report

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:47:00 +0200marketwatch (en)

Press Release Hurricane Harvey likely to be one of the costliest natural disasters on record for US economy, according to Aon report. Harvey damage to minimally cost US economy tens of billions of dollars. CHICAGO, Sept. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Impact Forecasting , Aon Benfield's catastrophe model....

Climate Change induces disasters, says NEA official

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:38:00 +0200thepoint (en)

Famara Drammeh of the National Environment Agency has said that natural disasters are becoming frequent worldwide making the risk of disasters a global concern. He said these disasters have created huge losses and damages to the economy, humans and society such as what has happened in Freetown, Texas and other parts of India and Bangladesh.

Los 11 terremotos más poderosos de la historia

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 14:48:00 +0200debate (es)

El Universal.- México fue sacudido la noche de este jueves 7 de septiembre con un sismo que alcanzó una magnitud de 8.4 grados en la escala de Richter. El sismo parece haber alcanzado una intensidad aun mayor que la del terremoto de 8.0 grados que devastó la Ciudad de México en 1985.

40 million forced to rebuild lives after devastating South Asia floods

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 07:59:00 +0200abc-au (en)

An estimated 40 million people in South Asia are struggling to rebuild their lives after massive floods devastated the region nearly a month ago. Entire villages across Bangladesh, India and Nepal remained submerged under water since the floods began in mid-August.

Don’t link climate change to increasing costs of disasters

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 04:27:00 +0200HindustanTimes (en)

While the world focuses on the devastating storms in South Asia and the US, it is timely to ask ourselves two broad, related questions. First, how do we prevent such disasters from being so devastating in the future? And second, how do we best help the vulnerable people who are most affected? When....

Why floods are the new normal this monsoon

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 04:27:00 +0200HindustanTimes (en)

The India n monsoon is never really ‘normal’. It rains too much or too little. It is variable and more than often unpredictable. But now the very definition of what is ‘normal’ is changing. The fact is that Indian monsoon is becoming more extreme and more variable. In this way, the new normal is flood at the time of drought.