Sep 06
Tropical storm Hanna is closing in on North and South Carolina with receding flood waters in Haiti revealing the corpses of nearly 500 victims of the deadly weather system.
Hurricane Hanna as it nears the US coast Photo: AP
Hanna, the eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, closed in on the US east coast on the verge of hurricane strength after leaving “catastrophic” conditions in Haiti, which it battered with strong winds and torrential rain for several days.
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Tags: Caribbean, Environment, flash flood, Government, Haiti, Hurricane, Storm, U.S.
Sep 05
· No food or drinking water as tempests batter nation
· Desolation in Cuba is like Hiroshima, says Castro
Friday September 5 2008
Haiti was reeling last night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and infrastructure and left bodies floating in flooded towns. Three storms in three weeks unleashed “catastrophe” and submerged much of the impoverished Caribbean nation, said President Rene Preval. A fourth storm, Ike, was gathering force in the Atlantic and could strike next week.
More than 120 people have died, thousands are homeless and agriculture and transport networks have been washed away, prompting calls for emergency international aid.
“There are a lot of people who have been on top of the roofs of their homes over 24 hours now,” the interior minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, told Reuters. “They have no water, no food and we can’t even help them.”
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Tags: agriculture, catastrophe, Chaos, Cuba, Disaster, Environment, Flood, Food, Haiti, Storm, U.N., U.S., water
Mar 18
China has lost about one tenth of its forest resources to recent snow storms regarded as the most severe in half a century, state media reported Sunday.A total of 43 million acres of forest have been damaged across China as the result of three weeks of savage winter weather, the China Daily website said, citing the State Forestry Administration.
More than half the country’s provinces have been affected, and in the worst-hit regions, nearly 90 percent of forests have been destroyed, according to the paper. Continue reading »
Tags: China, climate change, Deforestation, destroy, earth changes, extinction, Flood, forest, Global Warming, landslide, natural disasters, reforestation, social conflict, State Forest Administration, Storm
