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Southern Africa: Food Insecurity Looms As Floods Swallow Crops
World  (tags: world, africa, food, crops, nature, floods, rain, environment, climate, humans, suffering, endangered )

Tom
- 257 days ago - allafrica.com
Johannesburg -- As the water level in the upper Zambezi River continues to climb past its highest levels ever, destroying crops and road networks, disaster officials in Namibia and Zambia have warned that food security could worsen.
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Cyclone Hamish Strengthens, Expected to Hit Whitsunday Region - Queensland, Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, cyclone, hamish, rain, winds, tropics )

Chrissy
- 274 days ago - news.com.au
CYCLONE Hamish, which is hovering off the north Queensland coast, will intensify into a category four storm by Sunday, the weather bureau has warned. The tropical cyclone was about 230 kilometres off the Cairns coast on Saturday morning and was producing
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Torrential Rain a 'Mixed Blessing' for Australia - Australia
World  (tags: australia, rain, floods, flooding, drought, good news, lake eyre, queensland, NSW )

Chrissy
- 291 days ago - abc.net.au
As torrential rain continues to fall across parts of Australia, the rivers, lakes and estuaries from the far north to the back of Bourke are about to spring to life. Some of the rain that has caused floods in parts of New South Wales will flow out to sea.
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ON THIS DAY - 1953: Violent Storms Claim Hundreds of Lives
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Chrissy
- 674 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of people living on the east coast of Britain have died in some of the worst storms ever recorded. Gale force northerly winds lashed the coastline and broke through flood defences from Yorkshire down to Kent throughout the night.
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Ferry Stranded and Driver Killed as Britain Is Battered By Blizzards and Arctic Gales - Britain
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Chrissy
- 674 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
January blew out with a vengeance yesterday as 80mph winds brought chaos around the the country, caused a dramatic rescue of passengers and crew from a ferry stranded in the Irish Sea, and claimed the life of a lorry driver.
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Rain Run-Off Reaches Dams - Queensland/Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, rain, rivers, floods, dams, good news )

Chrissy
- 689 days ago - news.com.au
BRISBANE'S Somerset Dam is creeping closer to 60 per cent of capacity, the highest it has been since 2004. It was at 56.4 per cent yesterday, with the Stanley River rising at Peachester. Since New Year's Day, Somerset, Wivenhoe and North Pine have harvest
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Queenslanders on Evacuation Alert - Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, rivers, rain, floods, flooding, weather )

Chrissy
- 702 days ago - news.com.au
SOUTHEAST Queensland is experiencing its worst floods in about 20 years and with rivers across the region yet to peak residents are on evacuation alert tonight. While much of the rain brought on by a massive low pressure system over the last week has
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Rain Five Days a Week for Next Month - Queensland - Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, rain, weather, The Australian Bureau of Meteorology, good news, catchment )

Chrissy
- 704 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au
Don't pack your umbrella away - it is expected to rain in Brisbane on 20 out of the next 28 days. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is predicting the wet weather to continue throughout the rest of the month, with wild winds and heavy rain to stay until
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Drought-Breaker La Nina Kicks in for Wet Summer - Australia
World  (tags: australia, drought, La nina, rain, murray-darling, rivers, floods, good news )

Chrissy
- 728 days ago - news.com.au
THE drought-breaking La Nina weather pattern has finally kicked in, bringing flooding rains along the eastern coast and filling the tributaries that feed into the dying Murray-Darling river system.
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26 Bodies Found After Mexico Landslide
World  (tags: children, women, Mexico, sad news, rain )

Teresa
- 885 days ago - hosted.ap.org
ELOXOCHITLAN, Mexico (AP) -- Soldiers and rescue workers on Thursday recovered 26 bodies from a bus buried in a landslide but held out little hope of finding survivors.
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