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Mold May be present In Flood-Damaged Homes

If your home was affected in the recent flooding in northeast Ohio it could be harboring mold.

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NASA helps Texas respond to most widespread flooding

NASA aircraft equipped with a state-of-the-art sensor provided emergency response officials with critical soil moisture data for several regions across Texas that were threatened by flooding. NASA responded to the heavy rains and flooding in Texas by redirecting a NASA research aircraft, the P-3B, to Texas after it completed an interagency project in Oklahoma.

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Forecasting System Provides Flood Warnings to Bangladesh Residents

As catastrophic floods worsen in Bangladesh, a pilot forecasting program is being used to warn thousands of residents in selected flood-prone regions. The forecasting system was designed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Dengue fever epidemic spread across SE Asia

This year South East Asia's monsoon has brought its usual flooding and intense humidity. But it has also brought with it an increase in dengue fever cases. Already thousands of people have died.

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Heavy floods displace 19 million people killing 186 in India, Bangladesh

The death toll rose Friday to at least 186 as heavy monsoon rains triggered floods across a wide swath of northern India and Bangladesh, destroying crops, submerging roads and displacing 19 million people, officials said.

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Flood situation continues to be grim in South East Asia

Flood situation continues to be grim in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Assam, uprooting lakhs of people and destroying vast tracts of crops while the Army is called in for relief operations.

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Bangladesh Flood Forecasts Distributed to Residents

As catastrophic floods worsen in Bangladesh, a pilot forecasting program is being used to warn thousands of vulnerable residents in selected flood-prone regions. The forecasting system was designed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Floods, fires across Europe captured from space

Highlighting the extreme weather conditions hitting Europe, space sensors aboard ESA’s Envisat satellite have detected the worst floodwaters to hit Britain for 60 years and deadly fires raging through southern Europe.

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UK faces more rain as floods death toll rises

Hundreds of thousands of Britons hit by the worst flooding in 60 years in Britain faced further misery on Thursday as forecasters predicted more rain in the areas most badly affected.

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At Least 65 Dead in Indonesia Flooding

Continued rain has brought more misery to survivors of landslides and floods in in central Indonesia, where weather-related disasters have killed at least 65 people.

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Over 50 missing or killed in floods in Indonesia

Over 50 people are missing, feared dead in floods and landslides caused by torrential rains in Sulawesi, central Indonesia, the head of the Health Ministry's crisis center, told a RIA Novosti correspondent Tuesday.

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Earthquake Follows Floods, Avalanches In Afghanistan

Northeastern Afghanistan, already suffering from recent floods and avalanches, has been struck by a strong earthquake. RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan correspondent was in the capital of Badakhshan Province today when a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area. Dayan Ahmadi says he felt the ground shaking for about two minutes.

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