By Barbara Demick reporting from Beijing for the Los Angeles Times About 1.4 million are evacuated as harsh weather lashes several provinces, including Fujian, where 31 are said to have died. Torrential rains in southern and central China are forecast for the coming week. After months of punishing drought, China’s rainy season has returned with [...]
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By MIN LWIN with additional reporting from NAW NOREEN for The Democratic Voice of Burma Lakes and freshwater wells in central Burma are drying up, fuelled by hot weather and abnormal river flows resulting from hydropower projects. A local in Sagaing division’s capital, Monywa, said that wells were drying up in every ward of the [...]
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By Barbara Demick, reporting from Beijing for The Los Angeles Times. An unusually long dry season, along with deforestation, pollution and dam-building, leaves farmers struggling. In some areas, people cannot even wash their hair regularly. The images are heart-rending, farmers kneeling over the cracked earth that looks to be straight out of a post-apocalyptic movie, [...]
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Milton Osbourne for The Lowy Interpreter With something closer to a whimper than a bang, the first summit meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) concluded in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Monday 5 April. As I predicted, none of the MRC leaders chose to confront China over its repeated claims that dams in China have [...]
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Analysis – By Johanna Son for IPS BANGKOK, Apr 6, 2010 (IPS) – Lost in the deluge of accusations that China’s dams are the culprit in the Mekong River’s unusually low levels is the fact that Beijing has actually become much less tightlipped about thorny issues with its neighbours than in the past. Some years [...]
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By THOMAS FULLER for The New York Times BANGKOK — In southern China, the worst drought in at least 50 years has dried up farmers’ fields and left tens of millions of people short of water. But the drought has also created a major public relations problem for the Chinese government in neighboring countries, where [...]
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DPA Great swaths of South-East and East Asia are suffering from their worst dry-season drought in decades, and the monsoon is still months away. Worse still, the seasonal rains might be postponed by the El Nino phenomenon, experts said. El Nino, a warming of Pacific Ocean waters that results in changing weather patterns, cannot be [...]
From Circle of Blue Climate change is expected to bring less precipitation and more extreme droughts to certain parts of the world, causing electricity shortages in hydro-reliant countries. On Tuesday Venezuela’s Energy Minister, Ali Rodriguez, said the government would consider purchasing electricity from Colombia, contradicting a statement from the country’s Vice President Elias Jaua given [...]
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From International Rivers Around the world, climate change is melting glaciers that feed major rivers, contributing to drought-induced hydroelectricity blackouts, and threatening the water supply and river resources of billions of people. As major rivers worldwide experience dramatic changes in flow due to dams, their natural ability to adjust to and absorb disturbances decreases. Rather [...]
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Raheem Salman reports for the LA Times Drought, not Saddam Hussein, is the culprit this time in the area some consider the cradle of civilization. Iraqi farmers and fishermen wonder if they can hang on. Reporting from Chibayish, Iraq – Vast lakes have shriveled. River beds have run dry. The animals are sick, the birds [...]
