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Climate Change, Nature, Videos & Documentaries, Aug 15th, 2010,
Pakistan, China, Australia, Afghanistan, India, Colombia, Central Europe and the US state of Iowa have all recently experienced destructive, though greatly varied, levels of flooding. According to the prime minister of Pakistan, some 20 million people have already been affected by the floods there, while the UN puts the number at 14 million. The first case of cholera has also been confirmed. Independence Day in flood-hit Pakistan Over 2,000 people have been killed in China so far this year as a result of floods, which have triggered mudslides, buried villages and washed away homes. A further 600 people are still…
Tags: central, China, Colombia, dramatic, Europe, flash, flood, flooding, Iowa, Pakistan, report, video
Climate Change, Nature, Aug 9th, 2010,
Heavy rains have caused rivers to burst their banks in Germany, Poland, Lithuania and the Czech Republic. A total of 14 have died so far from the flooding and more are missing. According to Australian broadsheet The Age the Neisse River, which forms part of the border between Germany and Poland before flowing into the Czech Republic, has swelled to a height of 7.07 meters, over three times its normal level ‘and the highest since records began in 1912’. More rivers are expected to soon burst their banks, such as the Spree in Germany. For more on the story see…
Tags: banks, burst, central, Czech Republic, Europe, flooding, floods, Germany, Poland, rain
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, May 23rd, 2010,
Flooding has continued in central and Eastern Europe this weekend, with some 5,000 people evacuating their homes in Poland and western Russia, according to a video report from NBC’s Today Show. Conditions are particularly bad in several Siberian villages due to ice damming up a river. According to a report from Deutsche Welle, the death toll in Poland reached 12 this Saturday. Barriers in Warsaw were holding up Friday evening, although the capital saw water levels reaching 7.74 meters (25.4 feet) on Saturday – just short of the eight-meter mark when authorities must prepare emergency services. –Deutsche Welle German authorities…
Tags: central, Deutsche Welle, Euronews, Europe, flooding, floods, German, Germany, Poland, Polish, report, river, Warsaw
Green living, Videos & Documentaries, Apr 24th, 2010,
The central station in Stockholm, Sweden is Scandinavia’s busiest travel hub, serving 250,000 travelers every day. These hurried commuters generate a lot of body heat – and Swedish engineers have come up with a way to transfer this heat to a neighboring office building. It’s a cheap, renewable and innovative solution for the building’s energy needs. An article in Time magazine’s Going Green section explains: Using excess body heat to warm a building is not a new concept — the Mall of America in Minneapolis recycles the heat generated from shoppers’ bodies to help regulate the temperature of the massive…
Tags: body heat, central, energy, excess, heat, station, Stockholm, Sweden, Time
