Thai confidence at 10-year low; floods hit more firms

Thai consumer confidence fell to a 10-year low in October because of flooding that has taken 533 lives and shut thousands of factories, with another industrial estate threatened on Thursday as water spread in the east of the capital, Bangkok.

“Storm of epic proportions” hits Alaska coast

A storm experts compared to a Category 3 hurricane lashed the western coast of Alaska on Wednesday, ripping roofs from buildings and pushing water and debris into communities, authorities said.

5.6-magnitude quake hits eastern Turkey

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale jolted the province of Van in eastern Turkey on Wednesday at about 21: 23 local time (1923 GMT), said Turkey’s Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute.

Alaskans brace for huge storm to strike western coast

An “epic” storm was bearing down on western Alaska on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said, warning that it could be one of the worst on record for the state.

Floods encircle Bangkok industrial estates

Floodwater encircled two industrial estates in the east of Bangkok on Monday and closed in on the center of the capital, disrupting bus services, although mass transit train systems were still running and commercial districts remained dry.

Three dead after France hit by storms in south

Heavy rains and flooding in southern France over the weekend forced the evacuation of about six hundred people, and three people died in weather-related deaths as a dozen local regions remained on alert on Sunday

Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world’s efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

Giant crack glimpsed in Antarctic ice sheet

A massive crack is growing wider in the Antarctic ice sheet and could break apart in the coming months, forming an iceberg the size of New York City, NASA scientists warned on Thursday.

8 whales die at Ghana beach in 3 years

Eight whales have died since 2007 when foreign oil companies began oil exploration off the Ghana coast, an environmentalist said.

Waterlogged Thailand will struggle to prevent future floods

As waterlogged Thailand struggles to contain the worst floods in decades, it faces a simple truth: not a whole lot can be done to avoid a repeat disaster in the short term even with a new multi-billion dollar water-management policy.

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