Hundreds evacuated from dozens of flooded neighbourhoods around Jakarta on Tuesday as torrential rains pounded the Indonesian capital and its surrounding satellite cities, causing several rivers to overflow. There were…
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‘Alarming’ rise in climate disasters in Brazil: study
by NWMNewsDeskby NWMNewsDeskBrazil has seen a dramatic rise of climate disasters in recent years, compared to two previous decades, a new study says. “Climate disasters have become more frequent and intense in…
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EnvironmentInternational
Sri Lanka: Several dead as storm causes floods, landslides
by NWMNewsDeskby NWMNewsDeskSri Lankan rescue teams said they had recovered four drowned children killed in a flash flood, with four other people missing, after torrential rains from a powerful but slow-moving storm…