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Climate change, poor urban planning contributed to deadly Argentine flooding
Posted by ClimateWire: Ines Perez on April 19th, 2013
ClimateWire: Rain began to fall over the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires late at night April 1. By the next morning, rainfall records for the month had been broken and the city woke up to find its streets covered with water.
Torrential rains dumped more than 6 inches of water on the city in less than two hours, according to reports from the Buenos Aires Central Observatory, killing eight people and leaving hundreds displaced. But the worst was yet to come.
A 6-inch rain in less than two hours earlier...
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Comments Off on Climate change, poor urban planning contributed to deadly Argentine floodingMeltwater catastrophes are forming high in the Andes
Posted by ClimateWire: Ines Perez on March 15th, 2013
ClimateWire: Glacial melt is a popular topic in global warming discussions, with its contribution to rising sea levels and shrinking freshwater supplies among the main concerns. But for mountainous communities in Peru, such long-term worries are obscured by a much more imminent threat -- glacial lake outburst flows, called GLOFs -- poised just above them.
Last month, the Risk Management Office of the Peruvian Municipality of Huaraz sounded the alarm that glacial lake Palcacocha had once again swollen above...