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India's 'climate refugees' flee monsoon flooding
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Le Monde: In 2012, out of the millions of people displaced by natural disasters around the world, over a quarter were from northeast India. Almost nine million inhabitants were forced to flee the region's devastating monsoon. These forced displacements are a common occurrence. Floods have become so routine in Assam, a state located at the foothills of the Himalayas, irrigated by one of the world's mightiest river -- the Brahmaputra -- that a special administrative post was created to deal with natural disasters....
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Global warming may increase daily variability of India's monsoon rainfall: study
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: The findings have been revealed at a time when floods have killed more than 550 people and destroyed unaccounted properties in North India. Scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany used a comprehensive set of 20 state-of-the-art climate models to predict the extent of weather changes in the wake of global warming. The models consistently show that future global warming might increase the daily variability of Indian monsoon rainfall. According to Anders...
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Racing the Monsoon, India Rescues Thousands but 550 Die
2013-06-22 02:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: "On a war footing" India has mobilized military and civilian emergency personnel to rescue tens of thousands of people stranded outdoors in mountainous forests due to unseasonably early monsoon rains, flash floods and landslides. More than 550 people have died as four times the usual amount of rainfall swept across 40,000 square kilometers (15,440 square miles) of northern India this week. A rescued survivor is carried to safety in northern India, June 21, 2013 (Photo by National Disaster Response...
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IRELAND: Monsoon Accessorize exits court rescue process
2013-06-17 13:53:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Apparel and accessories retailer Monsoon Accessorize Ireland has excited examinership - a process in Irish law where court protection is obtained to assist the survival of a company - in a move that safeguards 200 jobs.
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Monsoon rains cover India early, boost crop hopes
2013-06-17 02:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: India's monsoon rains have covered the entire country a month ahead of the normal schedule, increasing the prospects for a bumper output for summer-sown crops such as rice, oilseeds and cotton in one of the world's leading producers. The rains usually cover all of India by mid-July, but this year it happened on June 16, said a senior official at the India Meteorological Department, who did not want to be named. The rains are crucial for farm output and economic growth as about 55 percent of the...
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