Rescuers are searching for many people missing amid devastating flooding across Kenya. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration said on Tuesday that a search operation had been launched following the bursting of a dam in Mai Mahiu in the centre of the country the previous day. Hundreds of people…
More than 120,000 people have been displaced, Kenyan government says, with 22 others injured and eight reported missing. Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, according to a government spokesperson, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. Kenya and other countries…
More than 200,000 people and 51,000 households have been affected by the rains, Tanzania’s prime minister said. Flooding and landslides in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain have killed 155 people and injured 236 others, the country’s prime minister has said, as intense downpours continue across East Africa. Prime…
A new study has found climate change caused by fossil fuel emissions is the likely reason for the extreme weather events. Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions “most likely” exacerbated the intense rains that lashed the UAE and Oman last week, causing deaths and widespread flooding, an expert group…
World Meteorological Organization says floods and storms were leading cause of casualties and economic losses as impact of heatwaves becomes more severe. Asia was the region most affected by climate change, weather and water-related hazards globally last year, the United Nations weather agency has said. In a report published on…
The Chinese government has issued its highest-level rainstorm warning and evacuated more than 100,000 people as rain continues to lash the south of the country. Beijing raised the alert on Tuesday as ongoing storms threatened to worsen already massive flooding in Guangdong province. Four people were reported killed over the…
New report warns people are increasingly at risk in a continent warming twice as fast as the global average. Europe is increasingly facing bouts of heat so intense that the human body cannot cope, climate monitors have warned. The continent endured a record number of “extreme heat stress” days in…
Redang Island, Malaysia – Under a full moon, a bulbous creature emerges from the South China Sea onto a quiet beach on the Malaysian island of Redang. Watched closely by a team of volunteers, the green sea turtle moves slowly up the fine white sand to the top of the…
Vivaldi’s, Four Seasons, re-composed by AI using 2050 climate data to create a disturbing musical performance in Seoul. Antonio Vivaldi published, The Four Seasons, in 1723, celebrating the natural world and the four distinct seasons. But what would this music sound like today in our age of climate crisis? The…
Demonstrators say mass tourism is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago. Tens of thousands of demonstrators have hit the streets of Spain’s Canary Islands to demand changes to the model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago. An estimated 57,000 people joined the protests, which began at midday (11:00…
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