Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
13 March 2012
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Indigenous people walk in the highland region of Masaya, 60 km (37 miles) west of La Paz, March 9, 2012.06 February 2012
Coal mines shut as Australia evacuates flooded towns
Heavy rains shut four coal mines in eastern Australia on Friday as military helicopters evacuated stranded residents from inundated towns, and authorities warned of further flash flooding
Reuters | Feb 3, 2012
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Indonesia: Opening 2012 with disasters
With intensive rainfall since mid-December 2011 Indonesia is experiencing widespread disasters throughout the archipelago
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Colombia rising?
It may not be the mother of all bubbles, but it is a whopper. Colombia’s economy is rising as fast as a hot air balloon, but one that is almost certain to burst. Mining, petroleum, industrial agriculture and construction are all growing at record rates – fueled by a flood tide of investment, much of it foreign investment – directed by the World Bank and its local allies within the government of President Juan Manuel Santos, and made possible by the dispossession of millions of Colombians from the countryside through decades of violence combined with disastrous flooding caused by global warming
By Anthony Boynton | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | December 26, 2011
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The population of Bogotá, capital of Colombia, is about to pass 8 million.
27 December 2011
Philippines floods death toll nears 1,500
The death toll from flash floods that swept away entire villages in the southern Philippines climbed to nearly 1,500 today, as authorities widened their search for bodies
Associated Press in NZHerald.co.nz | Dec 27, 2011
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Flash flood victims cross a river after receiving relief goods in Iligan city, southern Philippines on Christmas day. Photo / AP
Philippines flash floods death toll nears 1,500
Almost 1,500 people are now known to have died in flash floods that struck the southern Philippines more than a week ago
BBC News Asia | 27 December 2011
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Officials are working to rehouse residents sheltering in temporary evacuation centres
Thailand seeks flood prevention plan as Bangkok clean-up operation continues
Authorities urged to tackle urban planning issues amid concerns climate change puts Thai capital at risk of more frequent flooding
Jonathan Watts | guardian.co.uk | 26 December 2011
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A street vendor in flood waters on a street near the Chao Praya river in Bangkok. The Thai capital is recovering from it worst floods in a century. Photograph: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images
24 December 2011
Adapting to the Floods
Margarita Amabeja holds out her hands full of golden rice grains and rough brown manioc roots - the first results of a strategy to adjust the agricultural cycles to the seasonal floods and droughts in the vast plains of Beni, in northeastern Bolivia
By Franz Chávez | Inter-Press Service | Dec 20, 2011
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Margarita Amabeja with the rice seed she is about to plant, and this season's first cassava. Credit:Franz Chávez/IPS
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