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Czechs hope wealth-destroying floods can lift growth
2013-06-13 13:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Floods that have caused billions of euros in damage across central Europe may actually provide an economic boost for the Czech Republic, a country struggling to shrug off its longest recession in more than two decades. Governments and insurers from Germany to Romania will have to pick up the costs of helping families and business recover from the floods, which have killed at least a dozen people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes since the start of June. But central bank Governor...
Ganges, Nile and Amazon seen suffering more floods from warming
2013-06-09 20:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Climate change is likely to worsen floods on rivers such as the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon this century while a few, including the now-inundated Danube, may become less prone, a Japanese-led scientific study said on Sunday. The findings will go some way to help countries prepare for deluges that have killed thousands of people worldwide and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage every year in the past decade, experts wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change. Given enough warning,...
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Central Europe under water: Floods wreak havoc in Germany and Hungary
2013-06-09 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Tens of thousands of people were being forced to evacuate their homes across swathes of Germany and Hungary today as further dramatic rises in the levels of the swollen Elbe and Danube rivers continued to cause some of the most devastating floods ever experienced in Central Europe. In the east German city of Magdeburg, flood waters from the Elbe rose eighty centimetres higher than during Germanys so called 2002 flood of the century today. Some 23,000 residents were forced to flee their homes...
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Floods in Germany may be a sign of climate change
2013-06-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Germany copes with flooding Déj vu for Grimma's soaked citizens Floods in Germany - a sign of climate change? Campaigning in rubber boots Merkel pledges immediate support as floods travel north Austrian flood handling successful but exhausting Floods hit Germany at economic low point Complaints arise over Germany's flood preparedness Many regions of Germany, and other parts of Central Europe, have been hit severely by flooding in the wake of unusually heavy rain. Climate scientists say climate...
Floods cause chaos across Europe in pictures
2013-06-06 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rescuers help residents escape, as floodwater from the Elbe and Danube rivers continue to swamp swaths of Germany and the Czech Republic, with the highest water level expected to arrive on Friday
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