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Floods affect 60,000 and destroy 1,800 homes in Lambayeque, Peru

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 16:23 UTC
Floods in Lambayeque, February 2017.
© Office of the President of PeruFloods in Lambayeque, February 2017.
Peru's National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) reports that as many as 1,877 houses have been destroyed by floods in Lambayeque region over the last few days. Over 60,000 people have been affected and one fatality reported.

Heavy rain that began on 31 January caused floods in the districts of Pacora, Jayanca, Illimo, Mochumi, Cayalti and Túcume in Lambayeque province of the region of the same name.

Further heavy rain has fallen since then and on 03 February, the La Leche river overflowed flooding areas of Lambayeque, Chiclayo and Ferreñafe provinces.

Indeci reports that 60,435 people have been affected and 24,755 displaced, including 6,000 in Morrope district, 3,735 in Jayanca, 7,510 in Chiclayo and 1,955 in José Leonardo Orti district, where 1 person has died and 15,000 affected.

The flooding has caused severe damage to houses and buildings in the affected areas. Indeci reports that 1,877 houses have collapsed, with 500 of them in Chiclayo district. A further 3,072 houses are considered inhabitable and 12,089 houses affected.




Floods in Lambayeque
© Office of the President of PeruFloods in Lambayeque
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Fake data: Satellites images disprove NOAA claims of 'record hot regions in Africa'

Tony Heller
The Deplorable Climate Science Blog
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 00:00 UTC
NOAA climate data dec 216
NOAA shows the Earth red hot in December, with record heat in central Africa.

The map above is fake. NOAA has almost no temperature data from Africa, and none from central Africa. They simply made up the record temperatures.

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Wild bear entering homes terrorizing villagers in Nepal


My Republica
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 13:58 UTC
bear print
Repeated attacks by a wild bear has terrorized villagers in the western VDCs of the district.

Residents of Kalimati Rampur, Laxmipur and Nigalchula have come under attack by the bear at their homes itself. The latest incident took place on January 30 when 54-year-old Damber Bahadur Wali of Rampur-6 was attacked in the night. He is undergoing treatment at the district hospital.

Prior to this, two people in Kalimati Rampur and another resident of Laxmipur VDC were seriously injured in attack by the mammal, local resident Bir Bahadur Wali said. "A bear along with a baby enters the village after 5 in the evening, and attacks anyone that it comes across", Kul Prasad Bhandari of Kalimati Rampur-3 said.

Its been three months that people have stopped wandering in the evening and also going to the forest.
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2 avalanches kill at least 10 in Chitral, Pakistan; snowfall breaks 20-year record


The Express Tribune
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 12:19 UTC
Representative image
Representative image
At least nine people, including women and children, were killed when an avalanche struck in Chitral during wee hours of Sunday.

According to administration officials, three houses were completely buried in the snow and 19 others were affected in Karimabad Valley. Most of the families have been evacuated.

The district administration official told The Express Tribune that Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) had called for helicopter services from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) as the area remained inaccessible due to heavy snow in the last 48 hours.
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Unprecedented snow claims over 40 lives in Afghanistan, Pakistan also affected

Shadi Khan Saif
Anadolu Agency
Sun, 05 Feb 2017 08:53 UTC
Unprecedented snow claims over 40 lives in Afghanistan, Pakistan also affected February 2017
A park in Kabul is blanketed in snow
Sunday declared a public holiday as unprecedented snowfall blocks roads, delays domestic and international flights

Over 40 people have been confirmed dead on Sunday as snowstorms wreak havoc on various parts of Afghanistan, prompting the government to declare Sunday a public holiday.

The unprecedented snow in a decade has led to the closure of main highways leaving many people stranded, out of power and other supplies.

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Red Flag

Vegetable rationing after extreme weather devastates European crops

Adapt 2030
YouTube
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 07:57 UTC
Europe vegtables rationing
© Victoria Jones/PA
European agriculture has been decimated with at least 80% losses which have led to black market sales of produce, rationing, shortages, collapsed greenhouse facilities and bankruptcy for farmers. The losses are beyond epic and this is what is expected in the new grand solar minimum, but the media brushes it away saying its bad weather in Europe.

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Shallow 5.8 magnitude quake shakes St Lucia and other islands


Caribbean360
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 20:58 UTC
EPICNTRE
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was felt in St Lucia and other parts of the Eastern Caribbean this afternoon, with residents reporting feeling buildings shaking.

The quake occurred around 3:54 p.m. at a depth of 20 km, 120 km northeast of the capital, Castries; 73 km northeast of Fort-de-France, Martinique; and 93 km east-southeast of Roseau, Dominica, according to the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC).

St. Lucia's National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) said there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries although the tremor appeared to have been felt islandwide.

And the SRC said people living in Antigua, Martinique, St Vincent and St Lucia also reported feeling the shaking.
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250,000 homes without power after storm battered SW France


The Local France
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 11:29 UTC
250,000 homes without power after storm battered SW France
© Xavier Leoty/AFPA man cuts the branches of a tree fallen on a road in the village of Angoulins near La Rochelle.

Gale-force winds battered France's southwestern Atlantic coast on Saturday, leaving more than quarter of million homes without power, the national electricity grid Enedis said.

National weather agency Meteo France said winds reaching speeds of up to 148 kilometres per hour (92 miles per hour) had battered the coast and warned that in some places they could even reach 160 kph.

Three western regions were put on red alert as the storm felled trees and brought down powerlines, cutting off roads although there were no immediate reports of casualties.

Enedis said that power had been cut to more than 250,000 homes in the departments of Gironde and Charentes with another 1,000 affected in the neighbouring region of Landes.

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Wrong place, wrong time: Black-backed Oriole endemic to Mexico turns up in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania

Nate Swick
blog.aba.org
Fri, 03 Feb 2017 17:49 UTC
Black-backed Oriole
Black-backed Oriole
Even though it's only February, we might already have a winner for the least expected ABA Area vagrant for 2017.

On January 31st a resident of Berks County, Pennsylvania, noticed and photographed a strange oriole in their yard.

The bird was posted to the Advanced Bird ID Facebook group where it was quickly identified as a Black-backed Oriole, a central Mexican endemic.

Pending acceptance this is a potential 1st ABA Area record.

The bird is being seen at 20 and 21 Indiana Ave, Sinking Spring, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

This is just northwest of Philadelphia.

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US Farmers are losing the Superweed fight: Glyphosate Resistance tops 75%


Sustainable Pulse
Sat, 04 Feb 2017 17:03 UTC
superweeds
The 2016 University of Illinois Plant Clinic herbicide resistance report has shown that glyphosate herbicide resistance and PPO Inhibitor herbicide resistance have both reached epic proportions across the Midwest of the United States.

2,000 waterhemp or palmer amaranth weed samples were received by the University of Illinois Plant Clinic from 10 states across the Midwest, amazingly 456 of the whole field sites showed Glyphosate Resistance - a total of 76.8% of the 593 sites.

Meanwhile, 62.5% of the weed samples on the whole field sites showed resistance to PPO inhibitor herbicides. Also, 49% of weeds on the whole field sites showed resistance to both PPO inhibitor herbicides and glyphosate herbicides.

Comment: The rise of 'Super Weeds' has been an ongoing problem for years!

For a more in depth look at the 'Superweed' issue plaguing America's industrial agribusiness industry read the following articles:
So the dramatic recent increases in resistant weeds have occurred despite years of urging farmers to use additional chemicals to avoid resistance. Weed scientists now say that superweeds from GMO crops infest over 11 million acres of US farmland - nearly five times more acreage than just three years ago - at a cost to US farmers of $1 billion a year.

What irks many farmers facing superweed problems and rising costs (not to mention consumers facing the prospects of more chemicals sprayed on our food and environment) is that Monsanto markets the use of a single herbicide as the main benefit of its GMO Roundup Ready crops. Even after all the publicity about this GMO failure, the "Council for Biotechnology Information," a front-group funded by Monsanto and other GMO crop producers, continues to put forth this now laughable claim.


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