Floods

Storms, Extreme Rain Events, Rising Sea Levels, Floods, Landslides …

Links to FEWW and EDRO  articles:

• FEWW FORECAST: 2009 Likely Wettest Year on Record

• China Crumbles
• Phew, It Was a Jungle Out There!
• Brazil Floods
• May 2009 Mudslides
• Floods and Mudslides

• Galeras Volcano Erupts Again
• Llaima Volcano Erupts Explosively
• Image of the Day: Mudslide on Whidbey Island
• Image of the Day: Austrian Avalanche
• Image of the Day: Tartagal Landslide

• Guatemala landslide kills 45, with 140 missing
• Brazil’s Extreme Rain Events Trigger 4,000 Landslides
• Colombia’s Nevado del Huila Eruption Kills 12

• Hurricane Paloma strengthens near Grand Cayman
• Heavy Rains Flood Central Japan
• The Climate Change Crusades

• TVA Spill Update [coal ash/water sludge slide]

• 2008 second worst year for disaster losses
• Brazil’s Extreme Rain Events Trigger 4,000 Landslides
• Hundreds of millions worldwide face disaster

• Floods leave 2.5% of Colombia’s population homeless [Dec 15, 2008]
• Brazil’s Extreme Rain Events Trigger 4,000 Landslides [Dec 1, 2008]

• Flooding hits Ireland after record August rainfall [Aug 18, 2008]
• South Asia monsoon rains kill 147 as thousands rescued [Aug 18, 2008]

• I’m a War President, Not a Weatherman!
• UNEP Issues Some CO2 Reduction Snakeoil!

• Early “Dividends” of Climate Change
• Environmental Disasters: Too Close for Comfort?
• Could Food and Fuel Riots Break Out Across the U.S.?

• Mississippi Levees Breached in 23 Places
• China “Frankenstein”
• 350 or 450ppm? Neither, Actually!

• Greenland Ice Melt Faster Than IPCC Estimates
• Only Zero Emissions Would Avert Dangerous Warming
• Stern Report: “a great toxic dump of doublespeak in truly Orwellian fashion”
• UN Hypocrisy: Kick the CO2 Habit!
• The myth of keeping CO2 under 450ppm

• Tornado Kills 4 Scouts
• US Tornado Brief
• Deadly Storms Hit US Midsection

• Powerful storms kill 8 in Iowa and Minnesota
• Will 2008 be year of the tornadoes, too?
• 2008: Year of the Fire

• The Climate Change Crusades

• US Tornado Brief
• UN Hypocrisy: Kick the CO2 Habit!
• Will California turn to desert by 2011?

• Italy: Submerged in Floodwaters, Sinking in Garbage

• Future in the Making: A Shrinking World
• Flood Puts City in Iowa ‘at God’s Mercy’ Iowa, June 12, 2008

• Sea level rise in Bangladesh threatens coastal population
• Brazilian floods kill 34, leave 190,000 homeless
• Rainfall continues to slow spring field work

• China Under Siege
• A Fast-Warming World
• Central US Floods
  

External Links:

• Landslides USGS (index page)
• Land degradation threatens 1.5 billion people [see also additional links on the page]
• Early “Dividends” of Climate Change
• 500 Weather-Related Disasters A Year
• First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities

News Links:

• Major Landslide Closes Road East Of Cedar City, Utah [see images]
  

• Heavy rain wreaks havoc in Oregon
• Landslide blocks U.S. 26 near Alder Creek

• Index of Human Impact on Nature

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