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Aerial views of El Niño flooding in Argentina
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 27th, 2015
Guardian: Footage shows Goya city flooded by the overflow of the Paraná river in Argentina on Saturday. More than 100,000 people have had to evacuate from their homes in the bordering areas of Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina due to severe flooding in the wake of heavy summer rains brought on by El Niño
A year of extremes: severe snow storms, drought and floods ravaged US in 2015
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 27th, 2015
Guardian: 2015 has been the warmest year, globally, on record, with the lower 48 states of the US experiencing their balmiest autumn ever measured.
This kind of exceptional heat provided an appropriate setting for the Paris climate summit, where 196 nations agreed to curb greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the sort of dangerous climate change that contributes to floods, drought and damaging sea level rises.
But the past year has also seen a number of severe natural disasters, climate change-fueled or...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 27th, 2015
Reuters: China's southern province of Guangdong, one of the country's biggest industrial bases, will check all construction waste sites in the wake of a deadly landslide to ensure none are in dangerous locations or poorly managed, state media said on Sunday.
The Dec. 20 landslide in the Guangdong boom town of Shenzhen buried more than 30 buildings in an industrial park and has left around 70 people missing, with only a handful of bodies found so far.
The central government on Friday labeled the landslide...
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 27th, 2015
Reuters: Firefighters on Saturday gained the upper hand on a wildfire northwest of Los Angeles that burned about 1,240 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of a major highway and led to evacuations, fire officials said.
Hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze in the Solimar Beach area of Ventura County and were able to draw containment lines around 60 percent of the conflagration by Saturday evening, county fire officials said.
The flames triggered the closure of parts of U.S. Highway 101,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Wildfire burns 1,200 acres outside Los Angeles, closes highway100,000 flee El Niño flooding in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 27th, 2015
Reuters: More than 100,000 people evacuated their homes in the bordering areas of Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina due to severe flooding in the wake of heavy summer rains brought on by El Niño, authorities said. The Paraguayan government declared a state of emergency in Asunción and seven regions of the country. Several people were killed by falling trees, local media reported. “[The flooding] was directly influenced by the El Niño phenomenon which has intensified the frequency and intensity of...
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Posted by Reuters: Lisa Maria Garza on December 27th, 2015
Reuters: Six people died in the greater Dallas area as a storm system brought tornadoes and flooding on Saturday, increasing the death toll from harsh weather in the southern United States this week to 24, according to officials and local media.
Four people died when a tornado hit the city of Garland, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of downtown Dallas, police said in a statement. Homes, apartments and vehicles were also damaged, police said, but it was not clear how many people were hurt.
Two other...
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