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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Heavy rains in southeastern Brazil caused a dam in the town of Campo de Goytacazes to burst and flood the area, January, 2012. (Melissa Martins Casa Grande)

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Devastating floods and landslides left over 3,000 families homeless in the town of Campo de Goytacazes in the southeastern state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 2012. (Sidinei Silva)

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Cattle decompose under the Saharan sun outside the town of Ayoun el Atrous in Mauritania. The food and nutrition crisis facing countries in West Africa’s drought-prone Sahel region continued to deteriorate at an alarming rate, May 2012.

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Two weeks worth of rain fell in one day in Manlia, submerging half of the Philippines capital, July 2012.