After Sea Surges, Water Could Kill in Another Way
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Loudspeakers boomed warnings across scenes of devastation in this city Tuesday, cautioning survivors of this week&#39;s tsunami that drinking water from wells or underground sources may make them sick.
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The scale of devastation wrought by sea surges that killed about 23,000 people on Asia&#39;s shores is starting to emerge. The death toll is still climbing, thousands are missing and millions have been made homeless
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Flood waters receded in parts of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday, but huge areas remained submerged heightening the risk of disease amid questions over why more had not been done to prevent the disaster.
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A new approach to managing floods could result in some areas being flooded in Wales.
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by salt water from the tsunami.
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Flood waters receded in the northern Philippines on Friday in the wake of a typhoon, but thousands of people remained cut off from help, hungry and at risk of disease after a week of severe flooding.
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Cities around the world are facing the danger of rising seas and other disasters related to climate change.
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The great wave that wreaked disaster round the Indian Ocean has brought its first cargo of death to the northern shores of Europe.
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A deluge has created the conditions for an extended famine and taken the areaÂs woes to a whole new level.
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More people could be killed by disease after the Asian tsunami by the disaster itself, a health expert warns.
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The Salton Sea, once known as Californiaâs Riviera, is dying. Inside a new plan to save it.
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BANDA ACEH (Indonesia): The death toll from Sundayâs tidal wave disaster climbed to more than 67,000 yesterday and experts warned that disease epidemics from rotting corpses, smashed sewers and contaminated water could double the figure.
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PARIS - The giant, deadly waves of seawater that crashed through coastal towns in Asia and parts of east Africa last weekend are commonly called tidal waves, but that term is not strictly correct, say scientists, who prefer the word tsunami.
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Mar. 8--Any region that gets deluged like we did late last week is going to find parts of itself under water.
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Lakes, rivers and whole regions are drying up dangerously fast. And then there's the floods.
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The tsunami which killed hundreds of people in southern Thailand may also have killed the coral reefs which attract large numbers of foreign tourists, a Thai marine scientist was quoted on Tuesday as saying.