AP
Wed Aug 9, 2006 VALLEY, Wash. - A fast-moving wildfire burned nine structures north of Spokane and forced the evacuation of residents from as many as 50 homes, authorities said Wednesday.
The fire quickly grew to nearly three-quarters of a square mile in windy weather Tuesday, but it was not expected to spread Wednesday and firefighters had it encircled with fire breaks, said Steve Harris, a spokesman for the state Department of Natural Resources. The cause of the fire had not been established and the number of burned homes among the nine structures was unclear. Harris said some were primary residences. |
Reuters
Wed Aug 9, 2006 AHMEDABAD, India - Swollen rivers swamped thousands of villages and towns across India's south and west on Wednesday, forcing 4.5 million from their homes as rescuers struggled to bring them food and drinking water, officials said.
India's annual monsoon rains -- vital for the country's agriculture-driven economy -- have triggered floods across at least five states since the weekend, killing at least 311 people, submerging villages and causing widespread damage to crops. Most deaths were reported from the western state of Maharashtra, where 163 people have been killed in four days of incessant rains, 86 of them in the past 48 hours, officials said. |
Aug. 10 (Bloomberg)
Chinese authorities evacuated about 1.1 million people to prepare for the approach of Typhoon Saomai, the most powerful storm to hit the country in two years.
Saomai, with winds of 173 kilometers (108 miles) per hour and gusts of 209 kilometers per hour, was centered about 45 kilometers southeast of Wenzhou, a city of 7 million on China's southeast coast, the China Meteorological Administration said in a statement carried on the official Xinhua News Agency. The storm is expected to make landfall at Wenzhou at about 5 p.m. |
Nature.com
By Michael Hopkin 09/08/06 Climate researchers and ecologists are usually known for using complex computer simulations to study environmental change. But Boston University researchers are using more humble sources to determine the effects of climate change on local flora and fauna.
For the past three years, Richard Primack and Abraham Miller-Rushing have asked Massachusetts residents with long memories and a record-keeping habit to show how rising temperatures over the decades have changed the nature around them. |
AFP
August 10, 2006 BEIJING - Nearly 500,000 people were evacuated from their homes in southeast China as the region, already suffering from two months of devastating weather, prepared for Typhoon Saomai to make landfall.
Saomai, with winds of over 200 kilometers (124 miles) an hour, was expected to reach the provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang on late Thursday afternoon or evening after pounding Taiwan earlier in the day, the Xinhua news agency said. While no major damage was reported in Taiwan, authorities in mainland China were preparing for the worst following seven previous storms or typhoons in the southeast over the past two months that have claimed well over 1,000 lives. Comment: Chinese government evacuates 500,000 in advance of storm. US government leaves 500,000 to their own devices in advance of storm.
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AFP
Thursday August 10, 2006 Philippine scientists have given renewed warnings of a major explosion at the erupting Mayon volcano, as steaming lava poured down its slopes and thousands huddled in evacuation camps.
Mayon's chief monitor Ernesto Corpuz said the volcano, which has been rumbling and oozing molten rock for about three weeks, may erupt in spectacular fashion in the coming days. "It is at this time that the volcanic activity could be gearing up for a bigger explosion," Corpuz told AFP. |
Reuters
August 10, 2006 MANILA - Strong winds and giant waves, boosted by a southwest monsoon, wiped out hundreds of shacks on stilts and left thousands of people homeless in the southern Philippines, local government officials said on Thursday.
An undetermined number of people were missing after giant waves swept four coastal villages out to sea, said the governor of the Tawi-tawi chain of islands near the Malaysian borders. One child was reported killed but many survived because most of the homes belonged to the Badjao tribe, strong swimmers famed for their skill in diving for pearls, Sahali Sadikul told reporters. |
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