DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least five people were killed in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar and Chattogram districts as Cyclone Hamoon crossed the country’s coastal belt on Tuesday night, officials said. The cyclone also caused serious property and environmental damage in the coastal region. “We got reports of three casualties in ...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The head of Libya’s Tripoli-based unity government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of deadly floods that have ravaged the North African country. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting in Tripoli, Dbeibeh said flags will be flown at half-staff on all public buildings duri...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Extreme weather patterns being seen around the world are “just a sign of things to come,” the UN’s top climate official has warned. All these climate disasters, from droughts to wildfires and floods, serve as stark reminders of the urgent need for accelerated action, Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN […]...
European Union’s climate agency reports that global average temperature reached 16.77°C between June and August COPEHHAGEN, Denmark – Summer 2023 has been officially declared as the hottest ever recorded on Earth. The European Union’s climate agency has reported that the global average temperature reached 16.77°C (62.18 degre...
ANKARA (AA) – The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, the UN’s weather agency said on Wednesday. “It was the hottest August on record – by a large margin – and the second hottest ever month after July 2023,” according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and EU’s Copernicus Climate Change ...
Dushanbe, Tajikistan – AFP At least 21 people have died following torrential rains in Tajikistan, authorities said Wednesday, the latest natural disaster to hit the mountainous Central Asian country. The deaths were reported in three towns near the capital Dushanbe, after heavy rains on Sunday and Monday triggered flooding, landslides an...
Okara, Pakistan — AFP The coursing floods in eastern Pakistan first swallowed Nasreen Bibi’s corn crop, then the cattle that fed on it, and finally her family home. They retreated to the roof to escape the rising water, before fleeing for their lives by boat. “We didn’t bring any of our belongings with us, everything [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 13 people were killed in several regions of Tajikistan due to heavy rains on Sunday, the country’s presidency said on Monday. A presidential statement said that 11 of the people died in western Vahdat city and the other two in the Rudaki district. It said that President Emomali Rahmon instructed […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Authorities accelerated evacuations from settlements along a river on Sunday as raging floods inundated large swaths in northeast Pakistan, with over 100,000 fleeing. The River Sutlej, which flows through northern India and Pakistan, is running high as India is releasing more water towards downstream areas in Pak...
Kasur, Pakistan — AFP Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan’s Punjab province, emergency services have said. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. Emergency services have been working t...
