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11 dead, 27 missing in Beijing rainstorms
Published on 01/08/2023
» BEIJING: A total of 11 people have died and 27 others remain missing during rainstorms in Beijing, local authorities said Tuesday.
Loch Ness struggles with Scotland's shifting climate
AFP, Published on 04/08/2023
» INVERNESS (UNITED KINGDOM) - Around Scotland's Loch Ness, famous for hosting a mythical monster in its murky depths, another prolonged dry spell earlier this year has heightened fears of a different kind.
China activates level-IV emergency response against Typhoon Khanun
Published on 03/08/2023
» BEIJING: The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters has activated a level-IV emergency response against Typhoon Khanun and sent a work team to east China's Zhejiang Province to assist in the local combat against the sixth typhoon of the year.
Over 880,000 residents of Fujian affected by Typhoon Doksuri
Published on 30/07/2023
» FUZHOU: More than 880,000 residents of east China's Fujian Province have been affected by Typhoon Doksuri, which made landfall in the province on Friday morning.
Algeria battles wildfires that have killed 34
AFP, Published on 25/07/2023
» ALGIERS: Algerian firefighters on Tuesday were battling blazes that have killed 34 people across the tinder-dry north, destroyed homes and coastal resorts and turned vast forest areas into blackened wastelands.
Hot oceans fuelling weather disasters
Published on 25/07/2023
» Heat searing enough to knock out mobile phones. Wildfire smoke that turns the skies an apocalyptic orange. Flash floods submerging towns in upstate New York and Vermont in the United States.
Record heatwaves sweep the world, from US to Europe and Asia
AFP, Published on 16/07/2023
» ROME: Tens of millions of people were battling dangerously high temperatures around the world on Sunday as record heat forecasts hung over parts of the United States, Europe and Asia, in the latest example of the threat from global warming.
UN: World hunger stops rising but remains high
AFP, Published on 12/07/2023
» PARIS: World hunger stopped rising in 2022 after growing for seven years but remains above pre-pandemic levels and far off track to be eradicated by 2030, UN agencies said Wednesday.
Iraq's marshes are dying, and a civilisation with them
AFP, Published on 13/07/2023
» CHIBAYISH (IRAQ) - Mohammed Hamid Nour is only 23, but he is already nostalgic for how Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes once were before drought dried them up, decimating his herd of water buffaloes.
Last week the hottest worldwide on record: UN
AFP, Published on 10/07/2023
» PARIS - The beginning of July was the hottest week on record for the planet, according to early findings Monday from the World Meteorological Organization, after a series of scorching days saw global temperature records tumble.