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Bosnia floods trigger 3,000 landslides and unearth mines
2014-05-19 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Floodwaters have triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing landmines left over from the region's 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded weapons. The Balkans' worst flooding since record keeping began forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and threatened to inundate Serbia's main power plant, which supplies electricity to a third of the country and most of the capital, Belgrade. Evacuated...
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State Known for Landslides, Deadly Mix of Loose Sediments and Heavy Rain
2014-03-27 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The flow of mud, boulders and trees that overran part of the community of Oso on Saturday was the most lethal slide experienced in Washington in years, but the state is prone to the destructive events. At times, parts of the state have experienced a thousand or more slides over just a few days, according to state officials, although most are small and cause far more limited destruction. Lynn Highland, a geographer with the United States Geological Survey, said Washington ranks with Oregon and California...
Washington State's 'Slide Hill' Has A History Of Landslides
2014-03-26 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Robert Siegel speaks with Seattle Times reporter Ken Armstrong about the instability of the land in Snohomish County in Washington that was affected by the massive mudslide.
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Heavy rains, landslides kill 20 in Philippines
2013-09-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Torrential monsoon rains hit the northwestern Philippines on Monday, triggering landslides and killing 20 people in areas already weakened by a powerful typhoon, and raising the death toll to 47 from storms across Asia. Philippine officials said soldiers and villagers were also searching for at least seven people missing in mountainside villages hit by the landslides Monday in the province of Zambales. In China, where Typhoon Usagi struck after passing by the Philippines, officials said the...
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Super typhoon cuts power, unleashes landslides in northern Philippines
2013-09-21 09:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The year's most powerful typhoon slammed into the Philippines' northernmost islands on Saturday, cutting communication and power lines, triggering landslides and inundating rice fields, officials said. Packing winds of 185 kph (114 mph) near the center and gusts of up to 220 kph, Typhoon Usagi weakened after hitting the Batanes island group, and is moving slowly west-northwest at 19 kph towards southern China, the weather bureau said. Usagi, which has been labeled a super typhoon, made landfall...
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