Vietnam government estimates 179 killed and 145 missing as water level in the Red River in the capital reaches a 20-year-high. Thousands of people have been evacuated from Vietnam’s capital Hanoi as the Red River’s waters rose to a 20-year high, flooding streets days after Typhoon Yagi battered the country’s…
The largest increases in emissions of the greenhouse gas come from China and Southeast Asia. Concentrations of methane are rising at an unprecedented pace, jeopardising global climate goals, according to researchers. The potent greenhouse gas, the second-largest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide, has increased by 20 percent over…
Gov. Hochul may have finally awoken to the state’s looming energy nightmare. Too bad she’s befuddled about how to prevent it. Her energy summit last week was meant to reckon with an inconvenient truth: All the pixie dust in the world won’t help New York meet its goals to abandon…
Transport links shuttered as Asia’s strongest storm this year drenches southern China and will impact Vietnam and Laos. Powerful gales and heavy rain brought by Super Typhoon Yagi hit southern China as more than 400,000 people were forced to evacuate with the storm approaching Hainan province. Packing maximum sustained winds…
Speaking at a meeting of Pacific Island leaders in Tonga, Antonio Guterres warned the region was ‘uniquely exposed’. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued his latest climate SOS, calling on countries to “Save Our Seas” as he warned of a crisis of an “unimaginable scale” caused by greenhouse gases…
Officials remain worried over heavy rains that have caused flooding as the rainy season is yet to peak. At least 49 people have been killed and thousands displaced in Nigeria after heavy rains caused flooding in the northeast of the country, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said. Three…
Bermuda minister warns third hurricane of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season ‘is not a storm to be taken lightly’. Hurricane Ernesto has made landfall in Bermuda, leaving tens of thousands of people without power as it lashed the British island territory with powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and potentially…
Head of regional bloc SADC says 17 percent of people across region in need of aid amid climate change-fuelled drought. Tens of millions of people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought, a regional bloc has warned, with a drop in crop and livestock production…
Flights and trains in Tokyo area cancelled as weather agency warns people of strong winds and heavy rains. Japan has ordered thousands of people to evacuate and cancelled dozens of flights as a “very strong” typhoon swerves dangerously close to the east of the country. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)…
NewsFeed The death toll from the Kiteezi landfill collapse in the Ugandan capital has risen to at least 24. Search teams continued their efforts Monday to find victims of Friday’s collapse. Uganda’s president has ordered an investigation into the disaster. Published On 12 Aug 202412 Aug 2024 Check out our…
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