A study by the climate risk firm Climate X has shown how drought, extreme heat and flooding has put historic locations across the world at risk
Flooding from Austria to Romania has killed at least 17 people, with thousands evacuated after days of torrential rain caused rivers to overflow their banks. Downpours from low-pressure system Storm Boris led to some of the most serious flooding in almost three decades across Central and Eastern Europe. Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic […]
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China’s financial hub of Shanghai was hit by Typhoon Bebinca on Monday morning as it made landfall as a Category 1 tropical cyclone. It was the most powerful storm to make a direct hit on the city in over seven decades. The storm packed top wind speeds of 94 miles per hour, the strongest to […]
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The government of Zimbabwe has ordered a cull of 200 elephants amid an ongoing drought and food shortages in the country. The order will be the first elephant cull since 1988. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) has been tasked with the cull. Fulton Mangwanya, director general of ZimParks, said that the culling will be […]
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