, another 30,000 people were ordered out of the Elbe's way as the river neared levels not seen since 1845, while in Slovakia the Danube was approaching 50-year highs.Around 90 people have died since the weekend as the worst floods in more than a century cascaded across central Europe....
Further along, huge pumps spray water out from people's cellars. What caused the floods in Spain? In another street, cars are gathered in a chaotic bunch - stranded where the water left them. Bernardo shows us a video of the immediate aftermath. Cars stand on their bonnets in the road a...
Maersk has advised that there is still no vehicular access to the South African port of Durban’s container terminals, two days after major floods tragically claimed the lives of at least 60 people, with many more reported missing. “There is evidence of significant damage to Bayhead Road –...
Floods in arid south-east Spanish areas: a historical and environmental review The Segura River basin, located in the South-East of the Iberian Peninsula, is the most arid region of Europe. As the consequence principally of the irregular precipitation, its fluvial system has both the prolonged ...
The Kremlin has warned that more regions are likely to flood after the Ural, Europe's third-longest river, burst its banks. In Orenburg, one of the worst affected cities, the Ural's water level was above 10 metres (38.2ft) on Wednesday. ...
Record temperatures in Europe this summer have disrupted transportation, displaced thousands of people and resulted in hundreds of heat-related deaths.
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The floods triggered debris flows ravaging cotton growing areas in Pakistan. About 12 million bags (2 million tons) of raw cotton are on the brink of destruction. Industry sources speculate that the foreseeable shortage of raw cotton will lead to the collapse of important industries. ...
Meanwhile,wildfiresare raging across the west, Canada, even Siberia; deadly floods are sweeping throughEuropeandChina; andheatwavesare hitting the U.S. "This is a direct impact of the climate crisis," Kerry said. "And the scientists are telling us there are things we can do. We can get ...
The summer of 2003 was Europe's hottestsince 1540, nearly 500 years ago.Tens of thousandssuccumbed to the heat across multiple nations due to scorching temperatures. France had a particularly high death toll, with estimates putting the dead at around14,000. Daytime temperatures were punishing, an...