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09.28.16Typhoon Megi: Deadly Storm Batters Taiwan and Mainland China
BBC
At least 5 have been killed, hundreds injured
Environment
07.14.16
South China Faces Worst Floods in Decades
from chinadialogue
It’s like someone poked a hole in the sky, the rain just keeps pouring down, you can’t breathe,” said Mrs Wu from Donghu, a district in Wuhan a city in central China with over 10 million residents. Mrs Wu lives in Chunshuli, an affluent neighborhood...
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07.06.16Torrential Rain Wreaks Havoc in Central, Eastern China but Yangtze Flood Risks Diminish
South China Morning Post
El Nino reaches Central China, flood controll efforts reach a critical state....
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07.18.14Super Typhoon Rammasun Bears Down on Southern China
CNN
Downgraded as it passed over the Philippines, the storm has gained strength again over the South China Sea and is now battering Hainan, with its inner eye wall hugging the island's coast.
Environment
05.17.13
China Tops Table for Disaster-Induced Displacement of People
from chinadialogue
More than a third of all people forced from their homes by disasters such as floods, storms, and earthquakes in the past five years were in China, says a new report from the leading international body on displacement.Around 49.8 million Chinese...
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01.09.13Cold in China Kills 180,000 Cattle, Threatens Power
USA Today
A severly cold winter is causing blizzards in the north, threatening electricity supplies in the south where the government is unused to dealing with such temperatures.
Caixin Media
08.13.12
We Make It Pour, Declare Cloud-Seeders
Will it be clear or gray skies today? Increasingly, the answer in China may be decided by the government.The Chinese have been seeding clouds for decades. Airplanes equipped with rocket-launchers and chemicals for inducing rainfall are based in...
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07.22.12Heaviest Rains in 60 Years Kill 37 in Beijing
Reuters
The Chinese capital's heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday.