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About 1,000 people trapped by seawater rescued amid damage to homes, electricity infrastructure and mobile phone mastsRescuers have evacuated about 1,000 people trapped by seawater 3.6 metres (12ft) deep along western Myanmar’s coast after a powerful c…
Record-breaking rainfall hit Auckland in January, only to be followed by Cyclone Gabrielle ravaging the North Island in FebruaryThe New Zealand government is allocating NZ$1.1bn to help communities recover from Cyclone Gabrielle and flooding.The funds …
Predicted to make landfall on Sunday, preparations are under way for a partial evacuation of the camp in Cox’s BazarThe plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya explained in 30 secondsTropical cyclone Mocha intensified to become “very dangerous”, the World Meteoro…
Many reported dead in Rwanda and Uganda, as heavy rain also devastates western regions of continentMay is the end of the rainy season for many parts of east Africa. However, this does not mean the devastation has ended.Last week heavy rainfall, which s…
New satellite images document the re-emergence of Tulare Lake, and residents brace for more flooding as snowpack starts to meltNew satellite images released from Nasa this week showcase the dramatic reappearance of California’s Tulare Lake after water …
Soaring temperatures caused naturally-occurring wildfires to double while separate report shows fire crews had slowest attendance timesFire crews attended a record number of serious outdoor blazes in England last summer, as scorching temperatures cause…
Dead are mainly elderly people unable to flee, Russia media reportAt least 21 people have died in wildfires in Russia’s Ural mountains, state media reported.Wildfires have raged in the Kurgan region of the Urals and in Siberia all week. Local media rep…
About 5,500 people still missing after intense floods and landslides with thousands also left homelessAt least 411 people are now known to have died in intense flooding and landslides that hit the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s South Kivu province …
The extreme heat in the western Mediterranean region would have been almost impossible without climate change.
Records for countries broken just weeks after temperature in Thailand rose above 45C for the first timeAll-time temperature records were broken in Vietnam and Laos last week. On 6 May, Hoi Xuan in Vietnam reached a scorching 44.1C, breaking the previou…