Tag: Floods
Indonesia searches for ways to balance domestic industries with surging Chinese imports
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A flood of Chinese products into Indonesia has hit local manufacturers hard, prompting the government to look for ways to...
Weeks after floods, Vermont businesses struggling to get visitors to return
BURKE, Vt. -- BURKE, Vt. (AP) — Two bouts of flooding from storms in July has hampered businesses and destinations in an economically...
Protecting against floods, or a government-mandated retreat from the shore? New Jersey rules debated
TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- New Jersey officials are defending proposed building rules designed to limit damage from future storms and steadily rising seas...
New Mexico village battered by wildfires in June now digging out from another round of flooding
RUIDOSO, N.M. -- A southern New Mexico village that was ravaged by wildfires in June and then battered off-and-on by flooding across burn...
Vermont farmers take stock after losing crops to flooding two years in a row
BARNET, Vt. -- Exactly one year to the date of last year’s severe flooding in Vermont, Joe’s Brook Farm was flooded again by...
Kenya's dramatic flooding sweeps away a central part of the economy: Its farms
MACHAKOS, Kenya -- With dismay, Martha Waema and her husband surveyed their farm that was submerged by weeks of relentless rainfall across Kenya....