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Devastating floods in Australia has taken a toll on economics, affecting industries and killing at least nine people. Prices on coal used to steel producing jumped up dramatically as the Queensland mines were flooded: to date Australia met at least a...
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More than 1,700 people confirmed dead and over 20 million made homeless in the ongoing catastrophe of Pakistan. The country is reeling from the scale of the disaster...
made popular Aug 19 2010
Concerns are growing for survivors of flooding in north-west Pakistan after the heaviest rains in a generation killed at least 1,100 people.
made popular Aug 2 2010
Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade...
made popular Jul 30 2010
The U.N. Refugee Agency dispatched the first shipment of aid for flood victims in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
made popular Jul 30 2010
When my neighborhood was evacuated because of Delaware River flooding a few years ago, I had less than 24 hours to prepare. I packed a suitcase and grabbed important...
made popular May 27 2010
Flooding in southern and south-western Finland appears to be over, and the situation is no longer expected to worsen. The Finnish Environmental Administration says...
made popular Apr 6 2010
On the first morning of each New Year, hundreds of people come to pray on the banks of the Irrawaddy River in northern Burma.
This year, they prayed that their...
made popular Feb 1 2010
Jeddah was afflicted last month by heavy rains that caused deaths of hundreds of people. What’s shocking is a city like Jeddah in the rich country Saudi Arabia...
made popular Dec 29 2009
Medical teams rushed Sunday to flood-devastated southern India where five days of torrential rain have left at least 205 people dead and 750,000 displaced, authorities...
made popular Oct 5 2009
Rivers of mud unleashed by heavy rains overnight flooded parts of the Sicilian city of Messina, killing at least 20 people, sweeping away cars and collapsing buildings....
made popular Oct 3 2009
Rabat, Morocco’s capital city, has witnessed a strong rainfall in the last Tuesday leaving very serious material damage, traffic jams, strong disruption of rail...
made popular Sep 21 2009
Well it was supposed to be a feel-good day outing for the SP MP Jaya Prada to her constituency Rampur from where she had fought and won this election. Her electorate...
made popular Sep 15 2009
The six South Koreans, who are still missing, include an 8-year-old boy. They were camping or fishing on the Imjin River, which flows from the North, enters South Korea...
made popular Sep 7 2009
Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that “significant” rainfall has lashed the...
made popular Sep 5 2009
Intense heat and stuffy weather combined with annoying power outage have been plaguing the lives of people in summer and the only relief for the masses comes in form of...
made popular Jul 21 2009
Last two days rain has drop an unremarkable history again in Awka. Around 3.00pm when it was raining in Awka, Anambra State, The rain was an heavy one that chase every...
made popular Jun 20 2009
On 26 May, late evening, the Koshi River water levels were high due to incessant rainfall in the region over the past four days, causing overflow on the Koshi coffer...
made popular May 31 2009
Due to severe flooding and resultant deaths and damages the department of Natural Disaster Management has imposed emergency in some parts of the country.
The death...
made popular May 6 2009
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New Zealand will provide up to $100,000 in aid to Fiji in the wake of floods that have left seven people dead. However the money will go directly to the Red Cross...
made popular Jan 13 2009
Rain and high winds lashed Washington state Wednesday, causing widespread avalanches, mudslides, flooding and road closures as the heavy snowfall that has buried parts...
made popular Jan 8 2009
Many things have been said about global warming. Climate change, storms, melting glaciers and more of a series of weather phenomena that were previously rare, may...
made popular Dec 5 2008
Many of the Saptakoshi flood displaced from the bordering villages of India, who had entered Nepal seeking relief in the wake of the floods, are still living inside...
made popular Oct 20 2008
She was not feeling well, in fact she was feeling rotten inside, it has been twenty days, when she was rescued from the rooftop of the makeshift straw house, mercifully...
made popular Oct 13 2008
Words on the street - the wildest “blame-game” on the planet, the source of disaster, the curse on the nation - Bihar... Bihar where even as on date the...
made popular Oct 6 2008
At least 17 people have been killed by floods triggered by monsoon rains in India’s eastern state of Orissa.
Some 2.4 million people in Orissa have been...
made popular Sep 22 2008
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rainfall in the last two days have killed over two dozen people in far-western districts.
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made popular Sep 23 2008
The death toll from Hurricane Ike rose to 25 across nine states Sunday, as rescuers said they had saved nearly 2,000 people from waterlogged streets and splintered...
made popular Sep 15 2008
Even as people grapple with the tragedy of being displaced by the floods in Bihar, there is a silent disaster that is unfolding.With a large number of people migrating...
made popular Sep 9 2008
Please Lalooji, with folded hands we request you to kindly spare Bihar. The idea of sending trains to rescue flood victims is undermininig the effect of other relief...
made popular Sep 6 2008
Exceptionally heavy monsoon rains and rising floodwaters forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in north-eastern India and sent elephants and rhinos...
made popular Sep 4 2008
Poor Bihar, inspite of being a state rich in natural resources and human resources is reduced to a state of helplessness and hopelessness.
For decades it was ruled...
made popular Sep 1 2008
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says floods in the northern state of Bihar are a “national calamity”.
He has visited areas where 55 people have died...
made popular Aug 28 2008
The National Disaster Management Force joined in the rescue operations in Bihar’s flood affected districts, where army personnel and air force helicopters are...
made popular Aug 27 2008
Guwahati, 22nd August 2008
At the end of the monsoon Assam hit back again with flash flood in last three days’ heavy rain pour into the region. The situation worsen...
made popular Aug 22 2008
Over 60 thousand people have been displaced due to flooding caused by Koshi River due to damage in the embankment. Authorities are yet to confirm the exact death toll...
made popular Aug 22 2008
Thousands of people were marooned in Bihar after the Kosi river breached its banks upstream in Nepal, flooding villages and towns in many areas across the state. The...
made popular Aug 26 2008
Guwahati, 28th July 2008
After the embarkement of Matmora at Dhakuakhana being washed away with the third wave of flood to take the death toll to near hundred, the All...
made popular Jul 28 2008
This month\’s flooding in the Midwest is reminiscent of the Great Flood of 1993, weather officials now say. But while a repeat of 1993 can\’t be ruled out,...
made popular Jun 23 2008
Midnapur, June 19 : The flash flood waters in two Midnapur Districts started receding fast to-day- much faster than it came but not before leaving a heap of death...
made popular Jun 20 2008
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This image provided by Heal the Bay shows a two-spotted octopus, a tiny female known for being curious and gregarious with visitors, and believed to be responsible for causing a tank leak at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium on Tuesday Feb. 24, 2009 in...
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