Tsunami & tectonics

JAKARTA, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A conservation group says a massive "bleaching" die-off of coral in Indonesia has been caused by a rise in surface sea temperatures. Indonesia - Asia - Coral bleaching - Coral - Government

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- About 6 million people, most of them infants and children, are at risk of lethal diseases transmitted through dirty water in flooded Pakistan, officials said. Pakistan - Asia - Government - Flood - Ban Ki-moon

The United States didn't even crack the top 10 in Newsweek's list of the best nations in the world. Is America on the decline? Newsweek - United States - Government - Magazine - Journalism

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- The flooding in Pakistan is a disaster worse than the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan combined, the United Nations said. Pakistan - United Nations - 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - Asia - Natural Disasters and Hazards

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- More than 1,400 people died and 895,000 homes were destroyed in flooding that has devastated Pakistan for more than two weeks, government officials said Monday. Pakistan - Government - Flood - Asia - Embassies and Consulates

Pakistan is experiencing epic flooding as a result of monsoon rains. How bad is it? U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke puts it this way: Floods in Asia is such a recurrent headline that many people outside Pakistan still do not realize that this is an epic eventthe worst monsoon floods in the history of the 63-year [...]

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Facing the worst natural disaster in more than 80 years, nearly 20 million Pakistani people are in desperate need of aid.

The UN Secretary General has called on the world to do more to help some 20 million people in Pakistan hit by widespread flooding. The German government has stepped up but, for a number of reasons, Germans have not.

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US Special Rep to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holdbrook weighs in on on the Asian floods and says how they will impact Pakistan and the rest of the world. Pakistan - Afghanistan - Asia - Government - United States

As a large country that is doing so well economically, India should look at the misery of Pakistan during the unprecedented floods, put aside our differences and help Pakistan, says Aziz Memon, chairman of the $100-million Kings group of Pakistan, which deals in textiles, water and medical services.

Alasdair Palmer asks why the floods in Pakistan prompted only a sixteenth of the donations sent to Haiti

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has sent the fourth humanitarian cargo including food and tents for the victims of the heavy flooding in Pakistan.

Will the Pakistan floods strike again? The recent floods in Pakistan's Indus Valley are of truly Biblical proportions. The UN estimates that the humanitarian crisis is now larger than the combined effects of the three worst natural disasters to strike in the past decade.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society says it is ready to dispatch relief and medical teams to provide aid to Pakistani victims of recent heavy floods.