Catastrophic floods have hit many parts of the globe as a result of extreme rainfall becoming more and more frequent because of human-caused climate change.
Torrential rain has flooded homes and caused extensive damage in New York’s Hudson valley while in China, thousands of people have been displaced. In Spain, people could be seen clinging to their cars and climbing trees to escape the flood water and in India’s northern state of Humachai Pradesh, where fatal landslides blocked about 700 roads, flash floods destroyed a bridge and filled streets with debris.
The effect’s of July’s extreme weather has triggered warnings of the climate crisis intensifying.
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11 июл 2023