Landslides, earthquakes, melting glaciers and
deadly floods make life precarious on the Nepal - Tibet border
Not exact matches
During 2011's
deadly onslaught of earthquakes,
floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to
make sure they were stable.
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.
So it stands to reason that as the Southwest does continue to Dust Bowl - ify, the Mississippi continues to break
flooding records, drier dry seasons give rise to more wildfires in Texas and California, and
deadlier hurricanes threaten to
make landfall, more people will start taking climate change more seriously.
We may yet find that climate change was responsible for how bad the Pakistan
floods were, for how much rain fell, but for now, it looks like a similar atmospheric blocking action that kept storms pretty much in one place, the same action that
made eastern Russia have the long
deadly heat wave and Siberia have an opposite cold wave.
Tropical cyclone Josie didn't
make landfall in Fiji but its heavy rainfall resulted in
deadly flooding.