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Parts of Asia face deadly climate changes and natural disasters caused by pollution and atmospheric warming, sooner than the rest of the world. Floods in Southeast Asia, glaciers melting in the Himalayas, islands disappearing in rising seas and huge dust storms in China are just some of the climate disasters caused by industrial pollution, car exhaust fumes and huge numbers of flatulent farm animals.

?All models say Southeast Asia would be the hardest hit by global warming. Levels of rainfall would be higher and more prolonged, and seasons would change,? says David Jezeph, chief of water and mineral resources at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
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New images from NASA?s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft show signs of recent climate change dating back about 100,000 years instead of millions or billions, including ?megafloods? that may have triggered climate changes, extensive terrain that closely mimics permafrost areas on Earth, lake beds, and gullies that have drained water and debris on the Martian surface within the past several million years.

Probably the most important evidence are the tell-tale signs of very recent glaciers. The presence of glaciers means that Mars once was a lot warmer and that there was much more water on the Martian surface.
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The recent crash of a Vladivostok Avia plane in Siberia that killed all 145 on board might have been caused by an earthquake on the opposite side of the Earth, in Chile.

Seismologists said that alarm signals in the doomed plane went off 17 seconds after the quake, which happened at a point on the globe exactly opposite the city of Irkutsk, where the plane went into a deadly spin. They believe that a shock wave of energy could have traveled directly through the center of the earth from Chile to Irkutsk.
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One feared effect of a warmer climate has been the northward movement of tropical pests like the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Now the mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and sometimes even the deadly yellow fever appears to have made it to Tempe, Arizona. County health officials caught the mosquito, known as Aedes aegypti, in traps a couple miles away from where an entomologist first spotted the insects and contacted health officials.

The mosquito’s appearance marks the first time the species has been identified this far north. Until now, the mosquito was found only as far north as Tucson. It is common in Central and South America.
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