Tag: floods
Record heavy rains and floods ravage the Beijing area – a video captured a man being rescued from a car swept away by the current
Rescue workers have taken hundreds of people trapped by water to safety, but at least two have been found dead. Flooding caused by record heavy rains has covered roads and…
Disaster weather in China – Record heat and floods
In China, it is currently “dangerously hot”, writes the UK’s national weather service, the Met Office Twitter. According to preliminary figures from the weather agency, China broke its national heat…
Over 30 people dead in after floods in South Korea
Emergency services continue to search for survivors and the dead in the road tunnel in South Korea that flooded on Saturday.More than 30 people have died, several are missing and…
South Korea: new deadly floods due to the monsoon
This year again, the monsoon caused major flooding in South Korea, leading to the death of at least 33 people on Saturday July 15. The heavy rains this week have…
floods lead to water cuts in the Santiago region
For two days, intense rains have been falling on several regions of central and southern Chile, a country that has been hit by a severe drought for more than a…
The floods of the Kahovka dam can cause environmental damage comparable to Chernobyl – “The problems are not limited to Ukraine”
The collapse of the Kahovka dam is not only a local problem in Ukraine, says University of Helsinki researcher Freek van der Vet. Huge amounts of pollutants and chemicals leak…
The disaster scenario waiting for the world! Scientists announce the impending danger: the disappearance of glaciers, floods and forest fires…
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications has revealed the extent of the disaster. According to the scientists in the study, even if measures against global warming are…
The threat after floods in Italy: Tetanus and hepatitis
Although almost two weeks have passed since the floods in northern Italy, the community of Conselice outside Ravenna is still under water. The situation is so serious that the municipality…
Tens of thousands of dead animals after floods in northern Italy
14 people died and tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes after the devastating floods in northern Italy. Now the animal rights organization Essere Animali is…
First, northern Italy was ravaged by drought, then came the floods – Extreme weather like this is linked to climate change
On May 3rd, it finally arrived: the rain that northern Italians had been waiting for. However, in many places, too much water started to fall. In the Emilia-Romagna region, east…