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July 11, 2025 11:28 AM

New Zealand braces for severe weather as storm threatens flooding

Heavy rain and strong winds lashed parts of New Zealand on Friday as a cold front moved east across the country, and authorities warned conditions could worsen over the next 24 hours, triggering floods and landslides. The northern regions of both...

July 10, 2025 8:14 PM

Rivers in southwest China breach warning levels, thousands evacuated

Twenty-five rivers in southwestern China exceeded safe levels on Thursday, state media said, after more than 10,000 people were evacuated as the remnants of former typhoon Danas converged with East Asian monsoon rains. Extreme rainfall and severe fl...

July 10, 2025 3:42 PM

Heavy rainfall likely to continue over northwest, central India: IMD

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said that heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over northwest India for the next 2 to 3 days and over central India for the next 4 to 5 days. According to the latest IMD update, reg...

July 10, 2025 3:35 PM

Rivers in southwest China breach warning levels, with thousands evacuated

The levels of 25 rivers in southwestern China exceeded safe levels on Thursday, state media said, after more than 10,000 people were evacuated as the remnants of former typhoon Danas converged with East Asian monsoon rains. Extreme rainfall and seve...

July 10, 2025 11:23 AM

Tibetan glacial lake drainage triggered deadly flood in Nepal, climate body says

The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week was triggered by the draining of a supraglacial lake in the Tibet region of China, a regional climate monitoring body said o...

July 10, 2025 10:08 AM

4.4-magnitude earthquake jolts Delhi-NCR

Strong tremors from an earthquake were felt across Delhi-NCR on Thursday, causing panic among residents in the National Capital, Noida, Gurugram, Faridabad, and other nearby areas. According to the National Centre for Seismology, the earthquake was ...

July 9, 2025 4:36 PM

Are flash floods directly linked to climate change?

The catastrophic flash floods in Texas a couple of days earlier, triggered by extremely heavy rainfall, which caused over 100 deaths and widespread destruction, have once again raised a pressing question- are flash floods directly linked to climate c...

July 9, 2025 2:29 PM

Wildfire loses intensity in southern France, firefighters continue battle

A wildfire that reached the northwestern outskirts of France's second city of Marseille lost intensity overnight, but firefighters were still battling the flames on Wednesday. Residents who had been told on Tuesday to stay in their homes for their o...

July 9, 2025 2:27 PM

Flash floods in New Mexico resort town kills three, traps dozens in homes and vehicles

Torrential rains triggered flash floods in New Mexico that killed at least three people on Tuesday, including two young children, and trapped dozens in homes and vehicles in the resort village of Ruidoso, a state emergency official and a village stat...

July 9, 2025 12:46 PM

European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths, scientists estimate

Around 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during the severe heatwave that ended last week, according to a rapid scientific analysis published on Wednesday. The study targeted the 10 days, ending July 2, during which l...

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