A landslide triggered by heavy rains killed 14 people in a mining town in the Philippines . Rescue workers are searching for 5 people who are still missing. The rain caused flash floods in other towns and triggered three other landslides and mudslides which damaged dozens of shanties. The heavy rain has bee attributed to La Nina. Six people were killed and over 120,000 left homeless in Sri Lanka after torrential rains pounded several areas for 4 days.
Figures show that numbers of fish have never been so low.
Global warming is heating up rivers, drying them and making them too warm for fish to breed . Pollution is another factor, creating an unhealthy environmental for the fish to live in. North Korea has used up its public food stocks, leaving million of people to survive by eating grasses, corn stalks or whatever else they can forage. Recent heavy rains flooded hundreds of houses and tens of thousands of hectares of farmland, causing great losses in western, central and southern Romania. MAY 200 people are injured as a tornado hits a small village in Bangladesh.