climate change impact

Storm Marta’s fury: Spain and Portugal face heavy rain; emergency worker drowns

[ad_1] Storm Marta batters Spain and Portugal (Representative image) Fresh storms and torrential rain battered Spain and Portugal on Saturday, triggering widespread flooding, evacuations and major transport disruptions across the Iberian Peninsula, just days after earlier storms caused deadly damage in the region.In Portugal, the latest weather system — named Storm Marta — prompted the […]

Top 10 extreme weather events cost world more than $122 billion in 2025: Rainfall in India, Pakistan claimed 1,860 lives – report | India News

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: Top 10 extreme weather events such as wildfires, heatwaves, floods and cyclonic storms cost the world more than $122 billion in 2025, said a report – Counting the Cost 2025 – released by a global not-for-profit organisation, Christian Aid. Exceptionally heavy monsoon rainfall experienced by large parts of India and Pakistan from […]

India improves its rank in climate risk index from 2023 | India News

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: India has improved both its long-term and year-wise global climate risk index (CRI) rank, figuring as the 9th and 15th most-affected country globally due to extreme weather events during the 1995-2024 period and in 2024, respectively, compared to the previous year’s assessment, showed the latest CRI report released by the environmental think […]

Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change report on Nasa website as promised

[ad_1] Trump administration says it won’t publish major climate change report on Nasa website as promised. (Image: AP) WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has taken another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.Earlier this month, the official government websites that […]

Death toll in South African floods rises to 90

[ad_1] Vehicles sit in the river after being swept away by floodwaters in San Antonio (Image credit: AFP) At least 90 people have died in last week’s heavy floods that devastated South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, the local government said Monday, as rescue teams continued searching for more victims.Thousands of people were left destitute after […]

Five dead, two missing in Typhoon Wutip in central Vietnam, farmlands flooded; reaches southern China

[ad_1] Typhoon Wutip (Image credits: IANS) Five people died and two went missing after Typhoon Wutip lashed central Vietnam, the country’s agriculture ministry reported. The storm caused widespread flooding, submerging over 70,000 hectares (172,000 acres) of cropland.Three fatalities were recorded in Quang Tri province, and two more in Quang Binh, where two people are still […]

Rescue operations underway after Nigeria flooding kills at least 150 | World News

[ad_1] This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. ABUJA: Flash flooding earlier this week in central Nigeria killed more than 150 people, a local disaster response spokesman told AFP on Saturday, while displacing 3,000, levelling more than 250 homes and washing away two bridges.The sharp jump from the previous death toll of […]

Switzerland: Flood risk after landslide engulfs village | World News

[ad_1] A man remained missing on Thursday following a massive landslide that engulfed a village in southern Switzerland.The Birch glacier in Switzerland’s southern Wallis region crumpled on Wednesday, with the resulting landslide of rock and ice sending plumes of dust skyward.The landslide coated nearly the entirety of an Alpine village with mud. Last week, authorities […]