SHANGHAI IN CHINA: The central Chinese language province of Jiangxi has declared a water supply “red alert” for the first time after the Poyang freshwater lake, the country’s greatest, dwindled to a report low, the Jiangxi government said on Friday (Sep 23). The Poyang Lake, normally a vital flood wallContinue Reading
HK: Hong Kong has damaged two heat records for September in a little over a 7 days, the city’s weather conditions observatory said Tuesday (Sep 13), because the crowded financial center swelters through the hottest summers. The Hk Observatory said a temperature of thirty-five. 4 degrees Grad was recorded onContinue Reading
PARIS: Rainfall 10 times heavier than usual caused Pakistan’s devastating floods, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday (Sep 1), as it released satellite images of a vast lake created by the overflowing Indus river. Rains, described by United Nations chief Antonio Guterres as a “monsoon on steroids” haveContinue Reading
INTERNATIONAL HELP The disaster could not have come at a worse time for Pakistan, where the economy is in free fall. Appealing for international help, the government has declared an emergency. Aid flights have arrived in recent days from Turkey and the UAE, while other nations including Canada, Australia andContinue Reading
SEVERE WEATHER IS “THE NEW NORMAL” “These person events fit the pattern of improving extreme events because of climate change, inch said Professor Matthias Roth from the Section of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS). “Such severe weather will likely become the new normal in a warmingContinue Reading
BEIJING: A southwestern part of China which has experienced scorching temperatures this month is now on alert for flooding among days of torrential rainfall. Downpours in the sprawling production hub of Chongqing and nearby regions of Sichuan province follow severe power shortages in the same localities caused by large useContinue Reading
JIUJIANG: Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells in order to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in Jiujiang city in the country’s central Jiangxi province told Reuters on Saturday (Aug 27). “These villages, all of them, are particularly dry, ” said Gao Pucha,Continue Reading
SHANGHAI: Shanghai will certainly switch off decorative lamps along its famed Bund riverfront for 2 days from Monday (Aug 22) as a nationwide heatwave sends power demands soaring, city professionals said. Multiple provinces possess announced power cuts to cope with a surge in demand, powered partly by people cranking upContinue Reading
Proboscis monkeys have been designated as the mascot of Indonesia’s South Kalimantan province. But their quantities are dwindling.Continue Reading
Faced with a “most severe situation”, the city – home to over 20 million people – ordered landscape illumination and outdoor advertising lights to be switched off in notices issued Tuesday, the statement said. Building name signs will also be darkened. And Chengdu metro said in a video on China’sContinue Reading