The Indiana legislature also passed the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act. The Act is designed to address the issue of which state has jurisdiction over guardianship proceedings for a protected person.
Phnom Penh Post - Droughts, flooding, disease: the reality of a Cambodia that has been hit by climate change. A farmer paddles through his rice fields in Battambang during last yearâs floods. Droughts, flooding, disease: the reality of a Cambodia that has been hit by climate change. Disruption of typical weather patterns. Scorching drought interrupted by erratic rainfall. Water shortages and then, suddenly, a deluge of flooding. Poor crop yields; an increase in food prices; dreadful hunger. This is the future Cambodia is facing as climate change takes its toll â and farmers are already feeling the effects, experts have warned.
Victims of this year's monsoon flooding take shelter in Keraniganj near the capital, Dhaka. Bangladesh - On the climate change frontline Bangladesh's unique topography accounts for its amazing biodiversity - it also places it at enormous risk from the changes wrought by global warming, as James Sales reports Sandwiched between the foothills of the Himalayas and the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh may offer the rest of the world an insight into the kind of weather and associated chaos we could all be facing. The effects and consequences to the planet of global warming - alarming predictions set out in the recent Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report - are already beginning to make their mark on the country.