Typhoon Lekima kills at least 13, displaces more than 1 million in China.

Thirteen people have been killed and 16 are missing in eastern China after a major typhoon triggered a landslide and caused widespread transport disruptions and the evacuation of more than 1 million people, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

Typhoons Lekima and Krosa shown about 1,500km
apart, eye-to-eye, over the West Pacific on Thursday.

Typhoon Lekima made landfall early on Saturday in the eastern province of Zhejiang with maximum winds of 187 kilometres per hour, although it had weakened from its earlier designation as a "super" typhoon, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Thousands of flights were cancelled in eastern China, according to the country's aviation regulator, with most flights into and out of Shanghai's two major airports cancelled on Saturday afternoon, their websites showed.

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Election landslide brings challenges for those who care

Saturday’s Federal Election brought some rather special challenges for those of us interested in the welfare of people and the environment that sustains them.

The Tony Abbott lead Coalition was swept to power in what appeared to be a competition between the environment and the economy.

It was, and is, an immeasurably unfair race – with the environment (long-term concerns) being something of a turtle and the economy (immediacy and short-term gains) being the hare.

The climate skeptics, many of whom populate our new government, are unable to disassociate the two, as are, obviously, many of those who voted on Saturday.

The environment and the economy have always been dissimilar with one being driven by nature and the other by a human construct.

Until we have the intellectual athleticism to be able to recognise that difference and add the cost of what damage we do to the environment to the cost of human endeavours, then the complications of climate change will only worsen.

Saturday’s election the Coalition pushed, in a public sense, our concerns about the environment to the periphery of the social agenda and in an article headed: “Australia rips up climate-change policies” NewScientist argued the landslide election result was bad news for the climate.