‘Bangkok Ignored Warnings’
By Marwaan Macan-Markar, IPS. Bangkok is paying the price of ignoring warnings over many years concerning its climate vulnerability and the incapacity of its soggy foundations to handle flooding.
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Thailand: Floods Kill 437
By Staff, Prensa Latina. Bangkok, a city of almost 12 million is flooded in 20 percent of its area, mainly those districts to the north, from which 50,000 people have been evacuated.
Continue reading →Venezuela Sends 50 Tons of Humanitarian Aid to Central America
By Staff, Venezuela Analysis. Central America has been suffering heavy human and economic losses due to several weeks of torrential rains that are expected to continue. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua are heading a worldwide campaign to request help with the disaster.
Continue reading →What’s to Blame for Wild Weather? ‘La Nada’
By Dauna Coulter, NASA Science News. The weather in the USA has been positively wild. NASA climatologist Bill Patzert blames this on a different suspect: La Nada.
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