SEOUL (AFP) – Floods triggered by torrential rain that hit North Korea last week washed away homes, roads and farmland and caused unspecified casualties, according to state media.
Heavy rain from July 12 to 15 left more than 20,000 hectares (50,000 acres) of farmland destroyed or submerged across the country, Korean Central News Agency said.
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Demand for water in agriculture and energy production could spike in the coming decades while catastrophic floods and droughts strike more often, a water conference in Canada is to hear this week.
“At unpredictable times, too much water will arrive in some places and too little in others,” said Zafar Adeel, chair of UN Water which coordinates water-related efforts of 28 United Nations organizations and agencies.
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Prices for New Zealand beef farmers are being boosted by global events from droughts in Argentina to bans on exporting wheat from Russia.
Beef shipments from Argentina for the first seven months of this year fell by about half to 110,000 tonnes after the worst drought in 70 years, government export limits and with the national herd down 15 per cent in the past two years.
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LONDON (AFP) – Aid agency Oxfam warned Tuesday of a “double disaster” for millions of people in Niger where heavy rains and flooding are compounding food shortages caused by a prolonged drought.
The United Nations says more than seven million people are facing starvation in Niger — more than half the population — following the drought, and Oxfam says the few crops that survived are now being destroyed by floods.
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Southern China has born the brunt of a second typhoon in a week, with shipping and flights disrupted by heavy rain and strong winds.
State media is reporting that the government is telling people to stay inside and shut doors and windows.
Chanthu was upgraded from a tropical storm after gathering strength over the South China Sea.
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Vietnamese troops evacuated thousands of people from their homes in the north of the country Sunday due to threats of flash flooding and landslides, as the death toll from Typhoon Conson rose to more than 70.
Typhoon Conson was downgraded to a tropical storm as it hit northern Vietnam late Saturday after battering the Philippines and the southern Chinese island of Hainan over the past week.
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Video Report: Asia floods continue to cause devastation.
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Video Report: Deadly floods hit south west China.
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Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters says more than 780,000 people were killed in nearly 4,000 disasters.
A United Nations report finds more people died from earthquakes in the past decade than from any other disaster. Data compiled by the Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters says earthquakes remain a serious threat for millions of people worldwide.
The report presents some staggering figures in terms of the number of deaths and economic losses caused by natural disasters during the past decade. Read More / Watch Video »
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Heavy rains which flooded parts of Australia’s vast desert centre have brought rare waterfalls spilling from the iconic monolith Uluru, or Ayers Rocks, officials said Saturday.
The deluge, which swept across much of the continent’s east after a tropical cyclone last month, prompted a wave of green in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, home to the giant red rock.
“It’s something that a lot of people actually wouldn’t experience, seeing the park at this time of year when it is green and the plants are really shooting and the flowers are coming out,” said park manager Christine Burke. Read More / Watch Video »
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Video Report: At least four people are known to have died and many others are missing in freak flash floods in Turkey.
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Video Report: Many homes have been destroyed by lodding in the south easters United States.
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Snow, flooding and gale force winds – the lower central North Island is getting it all.
Police say they have reports of snow in the Manawatu Gorge, Pahiatua Track and Norsewood areas, as well as high winds in the Sanson, Foxton and Ashhurst areas.
Laurie from Woodville says he thought friends were dreaming when they called him to tell him it was snowing.
“We do occasionally get it in the winter, but here we are in the spring time cause of the inclement weather. But I’m still shaking my head.” Read More / Watch Video »
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Floods, storms, drought and other climate-related natural disasters drove 20 million people from their homes last year, nearly four times as many as were displaced by conflicts, a new U.N. report said on Tuesday.
The study tried to quantify for the first time the number of people forced to flee their homes because of climate change.
Global warming is increasing the frequency and intensity of storms and otherwise altering weather patterns, so disasters are now “an extremely significant driver of forced displacement globally,” it said. Read More / Watch Video »
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Failure to tackle climate change at a key UN conference in Copenhagen could be “catastrophic” for health, the heads of 18 doctors’ associations warned on Wednesday.
In an exceptional joint appeal published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and The Lancet, they called on governments to act decisively to roll back the threat from global warming.
Scientists have repeatedly warned climate change could affect health in many ways, ranging from malnutrition caused by drought to the risk of cholera from flooding and the spread of mosquito-borne disease to temperate zones. Read More / Watch Video »
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AT least 38 people have been killed in flash floods in a remote region of Indonesia’s North Sumatra province.
The early morning flood hit in the remote coastal district of Mandailing Natal 275km southwest of the provincial capital Medan, government official Edy Syopian said.
“Our latest information from the local district head is that 38 bodies have been found so far,” he said.
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