News tagged with heavy monsoon rains

Bangladesh monsoon rains 'lowest since 1994'

Bangladesh has experienced its driest monsoon season for more than a decade despite heavy rains in neighbouring India and Pakistan that caused flooding, officials said Wednesday.

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created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA images show anatomy of pakistan flood disaster

In late July 2010, flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains began across several regions of Pakistan. According to the Associated Press, the floods have affected about one-fifth of this country of more than ...

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created Aug 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Top 10 new species list draws attention to diverse biosphere

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world announced their picks for the top 10 new species described in 2011. This ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new pipewort species from a unique, but fragile habitat in India

The foot hills of the Western Ghats are a remarkable habitat. Formed of Laterite (a hard rock) outcrops, they are a barren land during summer. Yet, as soon as the monsoon rains start, they sprout vibrant plant ...

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created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mesquite trees displacing Southwestern grasslands

As the desert Southwest becomes hotter and drier, semi-arid grasslands are slowly being replaced by a landscape dominated by mesquite trees, such as Prosopis velutina, and other woody shrubs, a team of University ...

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created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Study links past changes in monsoon to major shifts in Indian civilizations

(PhysOrg.com) -- A fundamental shift in the Indian monsoon has occurred over the last few millennia, from a steady humid monsoon that favored lush vegetation to extended periods of drought, reports a new study ...

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created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is arguably the most important fossil deposit in the world, providing an astounding record of the Cambrian "Explosion," the rapid flowering of complex life from single-celled ancestors. ...

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New family of legless amphibians found in India

Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India - unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Building mountains in a bottle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are preparing to launch a 10-year project to study water resources, gas exchange and carbon cycling in three man-made landscapes built in a half-acre laboratory at the University ...

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created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Floods show what lies ahead for sinking Bangkok

The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its impact felt, experts say.

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created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Future holds more extreme weather

(AP) -- For a world already weary of weather catastrophes, the latest warning from top climate scientists paints a grim future: More floods, more heat waves, more droughts and greater costs to deal with them.

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created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Thai flooding disrupting hard drive supplies

The massive flooding in Thailand is disrupting supplies of hard disk drives (HDDs) for the world's personal computer makers, according to companies and market intelligence firms.

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created Oct 29, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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