カテゴリー: Extreme weather
At least three people dead and 11 others missing after incident in flood-hit Hebei provinceA bus has fallen into a river in northern China, leaving at least three people dead and 11 others missing after flooding from heavy rains destroyed homes and cov…
As sea levels rise, growers are employing innovative methods to adapt to saline soilsLike millions of people across Bangladesh, Anita Bala, 45, relies on a small plot of land to feed her family.But for years nothing would grow. Her husband farmed shrim…
Three people were presumed dead after a mudslide swept away a house in Okaya City, as millions have been urged to evacuateTorrential rain triggered a mudslide and more floods across Japan on Sunday, leaving three people presumed dead and forcing the ev…
More than a million people have been urged to seek shelter as torrential rain triggered floods and landslides in western Japan, leaving at least one dead and two missing. Scientists say the climate crisis is intensifying the risk of heavy rai…
Authorities in Hiroshima and northern Kyushu issue evacuation alert amid unprecedented rainfallMore than a million people have been urged to seek shelter as torrential rain triggered floods and landslides in western Japan, leaving at least one dead and…
Hundreds of homes destroyed and almost 6,000 people evacuated amid power cuts and landslides in Hubei provinceAt least 21 people died as heavy downpours struck central China’s Hubei province, authorities said today, weeks after record floods wreaked ha…
At least 21,000 refugees displaced after heavy rain devastates Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the latest in a series of disasters to hit the areaThe process of rebuilding has begun once again for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh after a week o…
Shelters swept away as activists say people stuck in Cox’s Bazar are highly vulnerable to the ‘rapidly changing climate’At least six Rohingya refugees were killed by landslides or drowned in flooding after rain inundated refugee camps in Bangladesh ove…
One person has died as officials struggle to provide adequate Covid-safe emergency shelter for nearly 15,000 residentsThousands of residents have fled flooded communities and swollen rivers in the Philippine capital, Manila, and outlying provinces afte…
Public scrutiny has focused on contradictory statements from local media and differences between posts by authorities and publicThe official death toll from central China’s devastating floods has risen to 33, as the public began to ask questions about …
Thunderstorm that caused the intense rainfall in Indian city was described as ‘uncommon’ for the time of yearMore than 30 people have died in the Indian city of Mumbai after an intense burst of rainfall caused a landslide and wall collapse, as changing…
As scorching temperatures spread, the search for ways to protect against heat stress is becoming ever more urgentWilliam Martínez, who as a child worked on a sugarcane plantation in rural Nicaragua, learned the hard way what many in the US and Canada a…
Rising ocean temperatures caused by climate crisis increasing number of cyclones and intensity of storms, say expertsIndia’s cyclone season is being made more intense by the rapidly heating Indian Ocean, scientists have warned.Last week India was batte…
Winds snap power lines and kill two as residents in Odisha and West Bengal scramble for safetyMore than 1.2 million people have evacuated low-lying areas of India’s east coast as Cyclone Yaas made landfall on Wednesday.A week after Cyclone Tauktae clai…
Hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners at high-altitude, 100km race in Yellow River stone forest in Gansu provinceTwenty-one people have died after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a 100km (62-mile) ultramarathon in…