2012 was a year of extreme weather: massive floods, torrential rains, a super-typhoon and record drought. These and other extreme weather events were consistent with what most scientists predict will be the “new normal” as the world’s climate continues to change.
รวมภาพภัยธรรมชาติในปี 2012
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In mid-July, 61 percent of the continental United States was in a moderate to exceptional drought. (USDA/Christina Reed)
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A visitor stands in front of QR-codes information panels during a ceremony to open an information showroom dedicated to the Zaryadye park project in central Moscow, Russia. The showroom, shaped as a dome which houses exhibition halls covered with QR-codes information panels and displaying digital illustration of the project, was opened by Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on the site of the future park in a few minutes walk distance from Red Square and the Kremlin, according to organizers.
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Super Typhoon Jelawat made landfall over Japan and affected the Korean peninsula with heavy rains and floods, September 2012.
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For the third consecutive year, monsoon floods hit Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces, damaging more than 450,000 hectares of agricultural land. Almost 400,000 houses were partially or completely destroyed, September 2012. (Jean-Luc Siblot)
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