Sentences with phrase «deadly floods»

The Americans» arrival in Delhi coincided with deadly floods in northern India that some Indian officials have linked to global warming.

On Friday, the National Weather Service issued a dire warning about the Guajataca Dam in the Northwestern corner of Puerto Rico, threatening downstream areas with deadly floods.

Those who downplayed other recent deadly floods couldn't say much last August after every single one of the county's 22 bayous overflowed their banks and inundated hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.

For Munich Re, which puts billions of dollars on the line by backing up insurance companies, there's little doubt that the damages from severe thunderstorm outbreaks are linked with global warming, although this year's outbreak in the U.S. may have also been related to the emergence of a pool of extremely warm water off the coast of South America, which also caused deadly flooding in Chile, Peru, and Colombia.

Scientists have shown how earthquakes and storms in the Himalaya can increase the impact of deadly floods in one of Earth's most densely populated areas.

Colorado communities are still reeling from deadly flooding.

The northeastern Australian state of Queensland remains burdened by deadly floods that have affected hundreds of thousands of residents in the past several days.

Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis links the river's increasingly deadly floods to a widespread pattern of human - caused environmental degradation and related flood - mitigation efforts that began changing the river's natural flow nearly 3,000 years ago.

Updated, 4:03 p.m. As news spread of the devastating and deadly flooding west of Austin, Tex., last weekend (followed by so much more), I started exploring what's known about flood risks along the Blanco River and other waterways in Texas's «Flash Flood Alley.»

Landslides, earthquakes, melting glaciers and deadly floods make life precarious on the Nepal - Tibet border

Tropical Storm Gamma brought deadly flooding to parts of Central America.

In some countries, elected politicians have been jailed for such actions: In France, the mayor of a coastal resort town was sentenced to four years in jail for hiding deadly flood risks, and, a few years earlier, the mayor of Chamonix was convicted of second - degree murder for failing to evacuate chalets on an avalanche - prone mountainside in time to prevent fatalities.

It was the third - deadliest flood on record in West Virginia, according to the West Virginia state climatologist Kevin Law.

Since the start of California's traditional wet season in October, the state has rapidly lurched the other way, going from record drought to record rains, mountain snows and deadly flooding as storm after storm has struck.

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Colorado communities are still reeling from the epic rainfall that caused deadly flooding last week.

The report catalogued some of the disasters that have been visited around the planet since 2000: killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in Australia, and deadly floods in Pakistan.

Those who downplayed other recent deadly floods couldn't say much last August after every single one of the county's 22 bayous overflowed their...

While many babies and children were lucky to have survived the deadly floods, their lives are still in peril.

ISIS also remains entrenched near the Mosul Dam, destruction of which would result in devastating and deadly flooding in Mosul, a city of 1.5 million, downriver along the Tigris, and famine in much of the rest of Iraq.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

Snyder was rightly criticized for Superman's lack of regard for saving human lives in the first film, so in this film he tries to rectify that with a montage early on showing Superman saving people from burning buildings, exploding rockets, deadly floods.».».

Burnam blamed «multiple bad public policy decisions over the decades» for leaving Houston and other areas vulnerable to deadly flooding.

Already, California is well known for extreme weather events, from the severe drought now gripping the state to the deadly floods and mudslides that can wipe out whole neighborhoods.

Forests help take climate changing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, reducing global warming - a human induced process linked to wild weather patterns including this year's deadly flooding in Pakistan and crop destroying wild fires in Russia.

A streak of freak floods in the US, a deadly heat - wave across Central Russia, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in Colombia and Venezuela, record highs all over the globe, and a catastrophic flood in Pakistan that affected 20 million people: this is the year when the impacts of climate change no longer appeared hazily in an abstract future, but seemed to be knocking on our collective doorstep.

A third reason Sandy was important is the high storm surge that caused unprecedented and deadly flooding in New York and New Jersey.

Tropical cyclone Josie didn't make landfall in Fiji but its heavy rainfall resulted in deadly flooding.