According to a new global survey from the U.K. risk analysis firm Maplecroft, Haiti is the nation most at risk from rising sea levels, floods and other impacts of climate change. Thirty countries are listed as being at ‘extreme risk,’ with the top 10 comprising of Haiti, Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Cambodia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic [...]
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Haiti is the nation most at risk from climate change
Posted by Haiti News on October 27th, 2011
Tropical Storm Emily reaches Haiti early on Thursday
Posted by Haiti News on August 4th, 2011
US weather experts warned of “torrential rain” and “life-threatening flash floods and mud slides” once the brunt of Emily reaches Haiti early on Thursday. The storm will heap more misery upon Haiti, devastated by a major earthquake in 2010. Some 300,000 Haitians still living in makeshift camps almost 19 months after the quake may have [...]
Latest tropical storm heads for Haiti, Dominican Rep
Posted by Haiti News on August 2nd, 2011
The latest named storm of the 2011 Atlantic season has formed in the Caribbean Sea near the island of Dominica. The forecast track would carry the storm south of the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, then across the Dominican Republic and Haiti by mid-week. According to The National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Emily’s center this evening [...]
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No Comments »Haiti death toll rises to 23 due to heavy rains
Posted by Haiti News on June 7th, 2011
at least 23 people are dead in earthquake-ravaged Haiti after pelting rain carved paths of destruction across much of this still broken capital late Monday. The rains triggered flashfloods and mudslides, causing roofs to collapse and debris to be dumped on roads that became rivers of mud. The storm was the worst yet after 10 [...]
Haiti Flood UPDATES- 23 killed, 6 missing in floods, mudslides in Haiti
Posted by Haiti News on June 7th, 2011
Haiti Flood UPDATES At least 23 people were killed and more than a dozen injured, said Edgar Joseph, a spokesman for Haiti’s Civil Protection Department. Most of the deaths were in Port-au-Prince and they included two who died over the weekend, he said. Thirteen people died in Petionville, a hillside city southeast of downtown Port-au-Prince, Joseph said. In [...]
Dominican Republic floods – 8,000 people evacuated
Posted by Haiti News on June 7th, 2011
In the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, more than 8,000 people have been evacuated in recent days and authorities have put several regions on high alert for severe flooding. In one southern Dominican province some 400 families were cut off when the Ozama river flooded, officials said
