Yangon/Bangkok November 2011: A year after Cyclone Giri slammed into towns and villages along the coastline of Rakhine state, communities are starting to recover from the destruction caused by this massive storm. A concerted effort by NGOs and UN agencies with the financial support of the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO)has enabled the communities to re-construct their homes or build new shelters before the new monsoon season. Livelihoods were re-established through the rehabilitation of farm land resulting in a rice harvest, just a year after the storm.
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This picture was taken in our yard about a month after Hurricane Irene. This is Warnbro Sound in Western Australia today. Its 23 degrees and there’s a strong sea breeze. Is pizza with tomato sauce a vegetable? Apparently yes, according to Congress, which on Monday blocked legislation that would have made school lunches healthier Thousands Storm Kuwait City; Want Prime Minister Out Mike / CC BY-ND 2.0 If you live anywhere from Philadelphia, through New York, New Jersey, and lower New England you don’t need to be told how abnormal the snow over this past weekend was, or that it set records. But you may not be aware just how unusual it really was. For that, Jeff Masters at Weather Underground lays out the details. HONG KONG — A powerful typhoon that forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes on an island in southern China appeared to have caused little damage Friday and was sweeping away from the country toward Vietnam. Typhoon Nesat was expected to make landfall in Vietnam late Friday or early Saturday, after flooding streets on China’s Hainan island on Thursday. Hainan authorities had plenty of time to prepare for the storm as it churned across the South China Sea from the Philippines, where it killed at least 43 people and left 30 missing earlier in the week Monday’s Great Solar Storm: A Warning for the Future First Official Visit: Pope Benedict XVI in Germany Israel vs. Turkey: It’s Hard to Fight with Your Hands in Each Others’ Pockets |
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