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China heat wave blamed for huge pile of dead fish
2013-08-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Shanghai Daily: THOUSANDS of fish are among the casualties of the scorching heat wave in the city, officials said yesterday, raising fears of river water pollution where some of the dead fish are being dumped. On an average about 1 ton of fish are dying every day since the beginning of July at the Dafeng Fish Farm in Qingpu District, said Liu Kelin, director of the farm which has over 30 ponds spread over 530,000 square meters. The hot weather raises the water temperature which in turn decreases the oxygen content...
Bacon fries on pavement as heat wave grips China
2013-08-01 14:37:25| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: It's been so hot in China that folks are grilling shrimp on manhole covers, eggs are hatching without incubators and a highway billboard has mysteriously caught fire by itself. The heat wave the worst in at least 140 years in some parts has left dozens of people dead and pushed thermometers above 40 degrees C (104 F) in at least 40 cities and counties, mostly in the south and east. Authorities for the first time have declared the heat a "level 2" weather emergency a label normally invoked for...
Heat wave kills people, crops and hopes in S China
2013-07-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
China Daily: Wang Enda knows his harvest this year will be meager. The 58-year-old farmer in Haohuahong, a village in Guizhou province, sowed tens of thousands of corn seeds on his hectare of land in spring, but only a third of them sprouted due to the severe drought. What is worse is that all his hot peppers and grapes, which were supposed to bring him handsome returns, withered amid the drought that is sweeping through at least nine provinces and regions. "I'm not looking forward to the harvest," Wang said...
Trapped in the oven of an extended heat wave, England calculates the damage
2013-07-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: In the Great Fire of 1666, a fire that began in a bakery and rapidly tore through a city of wooden buildings in overpopulated slums with open sewers flowing in the streets, it was easy to count the casualties: Four noblemen died. As for the 30,000 people who lived in the tenements that burned, no one kept track. The eventual solution was memorialized in "London's Burning," a song of the day: "Pour on water, more water!" Figuring out a solution and calculating the death toll from the near-record...
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Americas wicked, deadly heat wave last week
2013-07-22 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Released on Friday by NOAA, the map shows the hellish days that preceded the nation`s current meteorological bugbear: an "oppressively hot area of high pressure," to use the National Weather Service`s language, that`s now making eyeballs sweat on the East Coast. How nasty is it there? Here are a few indicators: So many people were camped in front of their A/Cs on Friday that New York`s power grid reached an all-time usage high. Reports Reuters: "The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)...
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