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Aid workers struggle with scale of Vanuatu disaster
2015-03-16 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Aid agencies said Monday (Mar 16) conditions in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu were among the most challenging they have ever faced with fears of disease rife, as the Pacific nation's shocked president said climate change was partly to blame for the devastation. Relief flights continued arriving in the battered capital Port Vila after Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam tore through on Friday night packing wind gusts of up to 320km/h. But workers on the ground said there was no way to distribute desperately...
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Cyclone Pam Prompts Action for Vanuatu at Sendai Conference
2015-03-16 02:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Cyclone Pam has not only caused unprecedented damages to the Pacific island of Vanuatu but also lent urgency to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's plea that disaster risk reduction is in "everybody's interest". "Sustainability starts in Sendai," Ban declared at the opening of the Third World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR), the largest-ever high-level meeting on the theme, which kicked off on Mar. 14 in Sendai, the centre of Japan's Tohoku region, which bore the brunt of the 2011...
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Vanuatu conditions more difficult than Philippines typhoon
2015-03-16 00:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Aid agencies Monday described conditions in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu as among the most challenging they have ever faced, as the Pacific nation`s president blamed climate change for worsening the devastation. Relief flights have begun arriving in the battered capital Port Vila after Super Tropical Cyclone Pam tore through on Friday night packing wind gusts of up to 320 kilometres (200 miles) an hour. But workers on the ground said there was no way to distribute desperately needed supplies across...
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Vanuatu pres says nation must start anew after cyclone
2015-03-16 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Vanuatu's president said Monday that the cyclone that hammered the tiny South Pacific archipelago over the weekend was a "monster" that destroyed or damaged 90 percent of the buildings in the capital and has forced the nation to start anew. Looking weary and red-eyed, Baldwin Lonsdale said in an interview with The Associated Press that the latest information he had was that six people were confirmed dead and 30 injured from Cyclone Pam. Lonsdale was interviewed in Sendai, in northeastern Japan,...
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Aid teams report devastation and death after Vanuatu cyclone
2015-03-15 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The first reports from the outer islands of Vanuatu on Monday painted a picture of utter destruction after a monster cyclone tore through the Pacific island nation. Authorities in the South Pacific nation were struggling to establish contact with the islands that bore the brunt of Cyclone Pam's winds of more than 300 kph (185 mph), which flattened buildings, smashed boats and washed away roads and bridges as it struck late on Friday and into Saturday. The government's official toll is eight...