A U.N. climate deal to in Copenhagen in December will also be vital to guide trade and development policies, Denmark's Prime Minister said on Thursday.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen told Reuters he hoped that a summit of world leaders at U.N. headquarters on September 22 would be a "tipping point" to give momentum to stalled negotiations for a climate treaty before the December 7-18 talks.
Records with the gup of Lumang gewog in Trashigang show that 128 households from four of its villages have abandoned their homes for resettlement elsewhere in the country.
Quakes, volcanic eruptions, giant landslides and tsunamis may become more frequent as global warming changes the earth's crust, scientists said on Wednesday.
With the rains gone, farmers in Dagana are estimating the damage caused by heavy and continuous rain last month, which include cultivated paddy fields, maize crops, irrigation channels and citrus mandarin (orange) trees.
More landslides can be expected as climate change exacerbates rainfall intensity - but their impact can be reduced, stresses the UN organization charged with coordinating global disaster risk reduction.
MUMBAI: Ten people were killed when a portion of a rocky hill slid down on hutments in Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar at Saki Naka after heavy showers on Thursday night. Another 22 who were injured are out of danger. However, an 11-year-old girl was still missing at the time of going to press.
Rescue workers on Friday pulled several bodies from the rubble of a giant landslide, lifting the death toll from a powerful earthquake to 64. Dozens more people were still missing and feared dead. The number of houses recorded as destroyed or damaged in Wednesday
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Indonesia, which killed at least 42 people and forced thousands to flee buildings, is likely to rise, government agencies said early on Thursday morning.
The 7.0 magnitude quake shook buildings in the capital Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon and flattened homes in villages closer to the epicenter in West Java.
