Posts Tagged ‘reuters’
European chill moves west, 122 die in Ukraine
KIEV (Reuters) - Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westwards over the continent on Saturday, blanketing Rome's Colosseum with snow for the first time in three decades and disrupting air and rail traffic.
Anger at squalid housing unleashes Algeria protest
LAGHOUAT, Algeria (Reuters) - Every time it rains, Fatina Binoun takes her three young children to stay with relatives because she is afraid the downpour will bring down the walls of her decaying house.
Southern states feel the heat, face thunderstorms (Reuters)
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla (Reuters) – Hotter than normal temperatures in several Southern states on Sunday have meteorologists warning residents to take special precautions before going outside. Heat advisories are in effect for western Tennessee down thr...
After deadly twisters, towns cope with multiple funerals (Reuters)
COTTONDALE, Ala (Reuters) – Mourners gathered at a church on Tuesday to say goodbye to a victim of last week's storms, another sad scene being repeated hundreds of times across the Southern states ravaged by deadly twisters. Judy Sherrill, 62, lived...
Waters still rising around evacuated Illinois town (Reuters)
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) – Missouri's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to intervene and block a proposed federal plan to protect the southern Illinois town of Cairo by blowing up a levee on the Mississippi River. State Attorney General ...
Minnesota town accessible only by boat after flooding (Reuters)
GRAND FORKS, North Dakota (Reuters) – Residents of Oslo, Minnesota on Wednesday walked levees and waited out massive flooding that has turned their community into a tiny temporary island in the Red River for a third year in a row, Mayor Scott Kosmat...
North Dakota set for Red River crest; rural areas awash (Reuters)
GRAND FORKS, North Dakota (Reuters) – The Red River was spreading out in a record swath across broad stretches of rural North Dakota and Minnesota on Tuesday and swelling toward a near-record crest in Grand Forks expected within three days. The Red ...
La Nina weakening; below-average rain seen for South (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The La Nina weather anomaly blamed for the devastating floods in Australia will keep weakening in the coming months, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center predicted Thursday. In a monthly report, the agency said a majority of weath...
Snow muffles rescue work in Japan’s devastated northeast (Reuters)
Reuters - Heavy snow blanketed Japan's devastated northeast on Wednesday, hindering rescue workers and adding to the woes of the few, mainly elderly, residents who remained in the area worst hit by last week's massive earthquake and tsunami.
Tropical Storm Alex Slows Oil Spill Efforts
According to Reuters, "Bad weather halted some clean-up efforts from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday as ...
Long Trapped Methane Bubbling Up From Arctic Seabed
ABC News and Reuters are reporting that "large amounts of ...
“Double Whammy” Of Powerful Arctic Ice-melt Next Summer
UK Bookie refuses to pay out $11 million on snow bet
According to Girish Gupta, Reuters London...
103 Dead, 1400 rescued in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Acoording to Reuters as published in The New York ...
The ice on Kilimanjaro could vanish in 13 to 24 years
According to Reuters, " The ice on ...
Sunshine Insurance For Travellers
Drought-hit India’s Frog Wedding to Appeal to the Rain Gods
Thanks to Reuters, we bring you this truly unusual story about "Indian villagers [who] marry off frogs in a traditional ceremony to appeal to the rain gods Suranjana Tewari reports." Watch ...
Sherpa: climate change making Everest harder to climb
Somalia: Worst Drought In Decade
According to Reuters, "Somalia's worst drought in a decade is pushing growing numbers of children into near-famine conditions and ...
EU Welcomes U.S. Emission Plan To Help Climate Deal
According to Reuters, "the European Union's executive arm welcomed on Wednesday a new U.S. plan on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, saying ...
Drought, Recession Scorch Texas Cattle Ranchers
From Pandora, Texas, Ed Stoddard and Jessica Rinaldi, of Reuters, are reporting that ...
Watch: Winter Swimming Competition in Riga
From Reuters: ' Latvians love a winter swim." "Swimmers in Riga take to the icy water in an annual winter swimming competition. At least 70 people competed in Latvia's ...
In Peru, the hills come tumbling down
The mudslides are back in Peru. Terry Wade, Reuters, reported this week that "it’s summer in Peru and the mudslides are ...
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