Sentences with phrase «monsoon floods»
"Monsoon floods" refers to heavy rainfall and resulting floods that occur during the monsoon season. Full definition
South Asia's worst monsoon flooding in recent memory has affected 30 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, destroying croplands, livestock and property and raising fears of a health crisis in the densely - populated region.
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More than 1,200 people died across Bangladesh, India and Nepal as the worst monsoon floods in a century destroyed agriculture and housing.Tearfund's head...
Climate change appears to be increasing the risk of monsoon flooding on the Indian subcontinent.
Since the population continues to increase at a rapid rate in the region, death tolls from monsoon flooding disasters are likely to climb dramatically in coming decades.
A Christian aid agency is worried that recent monsoon flooding in Pakistan and India will put millions... More
India and Bangladesh rattle sabres over the Ganges, which India diverts during the dry season, only to release its waters as the lethal monsoon floods rush down from the Himalayas.
«We have witnessed extraordinary weather, including temperatures topping 50 degrees Celsius in Asia, record - breaking hurricanes in rapid succession in the Caribbean and Atlantic reaching as far as Ireland, devastating monsoon flooding affecting many millions of people and a relentless drought in East Africa.
But she's in a jail where no one escapes and an annual monsoon floods the prison, killing everyone.
Are this year's monsoon floods due to global warming?
We should expect to see an increased number of disastrous monsoon floods in coming decades if the climate continues to warm as expected.
Monsoon floods over the past couple of weeks have killed at least 28 people in north India, more than a 100 in Nepal and displaced thousands of people living in the region.
Thailand experienced its worst natural disaster in history in the form of unprecedented monsoon flooding.
The report for 2012, based on an index of fatalities and economic damage from weather extremes, noted that Haiti was struck by Hurricane Sandy, the Philippines by typhoon Bopha and Pakistan had suffered severe monsoon floods.
In this year so far, reports suggest that over 1,000 people have died across India, Bangladesh and Nepal following the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in recent memory.
Australia is often considered the poster child for climate change because of its record heat waves, prolonged droughts, monsoon flooding, wildlife extinction, and mosquito - born illnesses.
The study highlights hybrid approaches in the New York City metro area and in Seoul, South Korea, to deal with their monsoon flooding events.
The monsoon floods have come early to Bangladesh, with thousands of people losing their homes and crops to river erosion, in what specialists say is a clear sign of climate change.
If alarmists were really interested in protecting humans against climate change, he added, «they would be helping Bangladesh adapt to monsoon floods and thereby avoid thousands of deaths every few years, instead of insisting on green energy boondoggles that will never save a soul there or anywhere else.»