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Kenya: Waiting for El Nino

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Samuel Maina - Oct. 09 (Special Report) - Kenyans are waiting for the El Nino rains anticipated between now and December 2009 with mixed feelings. Inasmuch as the El Nino is itself a natural disaster that in it's ‘moderate' form is expected to displace at least 100,000 people and leave 750,000 in need of humanitarian aid according to IRIN, most Kenyans actually want [...]

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The Gulf Coast's Recovery: Uneven And Uneasy

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Debbie Elliot - Aug. 27 (Special Report) - Four years after Hurricane Katrina, housing is still elusive for some storm victims. In the small fishing villages along the Alabama Gulf Coast, the storm made a hardscrabble life even harder. Even in towns where federal money lures residents to move to higher ground, not everyone wants to go.

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Hundreds Feared Dead in Taiwan After Typhoon

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Wines - Aug. 11 (News Report) - The toll from the already deadly Typhoon Morakot in the Pacific threatened to soar on Tuesday, as huge mudslides buried a rural village in south-central Taiwan and seven apartment buildings in coastal China, leaving two dead and hundreds of people unaccounted for.

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Naked girls plow fields for rain | U.S.

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Jul. 23 (News Report) - hPATNA, India (Reuters) - Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday

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Earthquakes fuel questions over drilling in Cleburne | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Sherry Jacobson - Jun. 14 (News Report) - It's hard to find anyone in this North Texas city of 30,000 who isn't getting mailbox money in exchange for allowing a natural gas company to drill on – or under – his or her property. But after a spate of mild earthquakes in the past two weeks that could be connected to the drilling, people are starting to reconsider: Is it worth the money?

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Ocean monster shows hidden depths

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Richard Black - May. 28 (News Report) - We started planning the Chikyu about 15 years ago, and there were some people who thought we were too ambitious," he recalled. "But now we can see that the ship is doing what it is designed to do and is opening up new possibilities."

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Blue whales returning to their former Alaska habitat: Marine Wildlife

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Mary Pemberton - May. 19 (News Report) - Blue whales are returning to Alaska waters in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.

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Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N.

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark U.N. report said on Thursday. Compiled by 24 U.N. agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet's freshwater, especially in developing countries, and described the outlook for coming generations as deeply worrying. Water is part of the complex web of factors that determine prosperity and stability, it said. Lack of access to water helps drive poverty and deprivation and breeds the potential for unrest and conflict, it warned.

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Drudge, Fox News again suggest a few days of cold weather trump climate change science

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - Mar. 03 (News Analysis) - Following the Drudge Report's lead, Fox News hosts Neil Cavuto, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity each suggested that, in Cavuto's words, a "massive snowstorm," which recently hit the East Coast, calls into question the scientific consensus on "global warming." However, climate scientists reject the notion that short-term changes in weather provide any evidence for or against the existence of climate change.

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Australia Faces Collapse as Climate Change Kicks in: Are the Southwest and California Next?

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joseph Romm - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - Australia has been suffering its worst heatwave on record, the first time temperatures exceeded 110 F for 3 days running. It’s been so hot that on Thursday, the low at Melbourne airport was 87 F. Australia is the canary in the coal mine for climate-driven desertification. The astonishing decade-long drought in southern Australia was declared ‘worst on record’ last year. My headline quote is from the UK’s Independent story, which notes: Australia, the driest inhabited continent on earth, is regarded as highly vulnerable. A study by the country’s blue-chip Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation identified its ecosystems as "potentially the most fragile" on earth in the face of the threat.

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In California, Hot and Dry Conditions Stir Drought Concerns

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Stu Woo - Jan. 14 (News Analysis) - The past two days have felt like summer in California, as unseasonable warmth sweeps the state -- possibly presaging a third straight year of drought, a worrisome possibility for a state already hit hard by the economic downturn. Another dry year could mean water rationing for businesses and individuals. It could also slow business expansion and affect the agricultural industry, ski resorts and efforts to keep firefighting costs down, after a year in which state and federal officials spent $1 billion combating wildfires. Temperatures jumped to 90 degrees in parts of California on Monday and Tuesday. With no rain forecast for the next week, the state is on track for one of its driest Januarys ever, said state climatologist Michael Anderson.

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Cleveland-area TV meteorologists disagree with prevailing attitude about climate change

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Cleveland Plain Dealer - By Michael Scott - Dec. 04 (Special Report) - Seitter said many meteorologists also don't trust models - "because we've seen how wrong they can be in predicting weather" - and that most don't interact with other scientists beyond other meteorologists. "We sort of live in our own world and haven't been exposed to the same volumes of research that the climatologists have," he said. "The day-to-day meteorologists are seeing anecdotal evidence, but not the research that goes back thousands of years," he said. "The two disciplines are very related, but the time span being looked at is very different.

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Tropical weather - Blogging tropical weather with the Chronicle staff

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By All newspaper staff - Sep. 20 (News Report) - Distribution of diabetic food, water and ice at 9520 Homestead County reminds residents to stay out of waterways Downtown Houston safe and open for business, HPD says Power update: CenterPoint reaches halfway mark More than just Ike on TV this weekend West University Place systems fully operational

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Heart of U.S. Oil and Gas Industries Shut Down as Storm Approached

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steven Mufson - Sep. 13 (News Report) - In anticipation of what was expected to be a Category 3 storm, nearly 98 percent of the oil and 94 percent of the natural gas production in the Gulf had been shut down as of yesterday afternoon, according to the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service.

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Area goes dark as hurricane cuts power to millions

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By Dale Lezon, Lindsay Wise - Sep. 13 (News Report) - Hurricane Ike knocked electricity offline for virtually the entire Houston area as it continued to roar across the area today, while Galveston officials prepared to assess potentially grim scenes in surge-soaked neighborhoods.

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Hanna roars ashore near North-South Carolina line

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jeffrey Collins, Kevin Maurer - Sep. 06 (News Report) - Tropical Storm Hanna blew ashore over tourist beaches on the North-South Carolina border early Saturday at the start of a projected dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could dump heavy rain from Virginia to New England.

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FEMA Is Eager to Show It Learned From Katrina

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Eric Lipton - Sep. 01 (Special Report) - Nature has a way of upending disaster-response plans. But there was a certain confidence Sunday that the federal government had learned its painful lessons and that there would be no repeat of the ineptitude that defined the response to Hurricane Katrina three years ago.

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Gulf Coast feeling the effects of hurricane Gustav

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jacqueline L. Salmon, Philip rucker, William Branigin - Sep. 01 (Special Report) - Hurricane Gustav weakened to a Category 2 storm as it lashed the coast of Louisiana Monday, but federal officials warned it continues to pack a dangerous storm surge that is raising concerns -- mixed with considerable uncertainty -- about new flooding in New Orleans three years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

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Hurricane Gustav approaches Cayman Islands

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Evan S. benn, Jacqueline Charles - Aug. 30 (News Report) - All computer models are in agreement that Gustav will grow into a ferocious hurricane -- conservative estimates predict a Category 3 -- before it makes landfall sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. The question remains where exactly it will strike.

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Climate Change Equals Stronger Rains

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By David Biello - Aug. 08 (News Report) - As the globe continues to warm, the rainiest parts of the world are very likely to get wetter, according to a new study in Science. Desert dwellers, however, are likely to see what little rain they receive dry up, as the rain becomes even more concentrated in high-precipitation areas.

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Who'll start the rain?

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Suzanne Bopp - Aug. 06 (Special Report) - China is probably the world's largest practitioner of cloud seeding, spending about $90 million a year. Now, eager to ensure rain comes before -- not during -- the Olympics, the Beijing Weather Modification Office plans to seed the clouds that float by beforehand, hoping to wash the pollution from the air and wring out any event-delaying precipitation.

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Myriad wildfires pollute air, pose health risks and keep on spreading

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Demian Bulwa - Jun. 27 (News Report) - San Francisco - Bay Area residents can expect to remain mired in a smoky haze this weekend as nearly 1,100 wildfires chew up 250 square miles of land around Northern California. For those most sensitive, the foul air could pose health risks, pollution regulators and meteorologists said Thursday. Temperatures are expected to top out in the 80s and even the 90s in hot spots like Livermore, which would make for great summer weather, "if only you could breathe," said Diana Henderson, a National Weather Service forecaster. Existing fires continued to spread Thursday, even as new fires were discovered. And state and federal fire officials said they were preparing for the return of the same dry thunderstorms that sparked most of the recent blazes. The storms were expected to bring lightning strikes starting late Thursday and continuing through the weekend. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District said it expects pollution levels to remain unhealthy today in portions of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties. People who are very young or old, or suffer from lung or heart disease, are most at risk. Of particular concern, said agency spokesman Aaron Richardson, are smoke particles smaller than 1/20th of the diameter of a human hair that are not filtered out of the body by the nose or throat, and may pass into the bloodstream. Concern about polluted air was one reason why organizers canceled Saturday's 100-mile Western States Endurance Run. The famous footrace from Squaw Valley to Auburn was scrapped for the first time in its 35-year history because of the "health risks that have been associated with these wildfires," race officials said in a statement.

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Calif. firefighters wrestle with hundreds of blazes

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:22:46 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 22 (News Report) - Lightning sparked more than 500 fires that burned around Northern California on Sunday as firefighters struggled with rough terrain and rising temperatures to keep the blazes from growing. A fast-spreading blaze miles from the heart of wine country surged overnight to scorch 5.5 square miles of grassy woodland by early Sunday, forcing residents of more than 60 homes to flee. The fire threatened more than 100 buildings as it burned in grassy woodlands straddling Napa County and Solano County about 40 miles southwest of Sacramento. The blaze was 10 percent contained Sunday morning and had destroyed one home, said Roger Archey, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Another fire burning west of Morgan Hill and Gilroy about 25 miles south of San Jose forced several residents from their homes Sunday, though officials did not have exact evacuation figures available. A lightning strike Saturday afternoon was being blamed for the blaze, which had burned nearly 2 square miles and was 10 percent contained. Meanwhile, firefighters worked against rising temperatures and falling humidity in the remote mountain forests blanketing the state's northernmost counties to keep hundreds of small blazes from expanding. "Our concern is how many of them are going to break out?" said Roy Del Carlo, a Cal Fire spokesman. Storms were responsible for as many as 75 fires in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, near Redding. Those fires ranged in size from less than an acre to more than 750 acres. None immediately threatened homes, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Another 90 fires ranging from one acre to 125 acres in size burning in the Mendocino County area alone, Cal Fire officials said. South of San Francisco, a fire that burned homes and sent thousands fleeing was expected to be fully surrounded by Sunday evening. Officials had expected full containment on Saturday, but hot weather and new fires kept fire crews in the area busy. So far, it had charred 630 acres, or less than a square mile, and destroyed ten homes along with ten other buildings.

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Myanmar Reels as Cyclone Toll Hits Thousands

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Seth Mydans - May. 06 (News Report) - Officials said they would open the doors of their closed and tightly controlled nation to international relief groups. So far, most foreigners and all foreign journalists have been barred from entering the country.

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Revisiting the global warming-hurricane link

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Peter Spotts - Apr. 14 (News Report) - Since the devastating 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, scientists have been briskly testing the notion that global warming's fingerprints have already appeared on tropical-cyclone activity worldwide. Now, a new analysis from the scientist who helped trigger that flurry of studies suggests that the answer to questions about global warming's impact on current tropical cyclone trends may instead be: No, not yet.

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