5 d. ago Mudslides bury cars and homes up to their windows in California town

At least three people killed across state since atmospheric river storms began earlier this weekMudslides buried cars and homes up to their windows in a California mountain town as a powerful storm system brought the wettest Christmas in decades to the southern part of the state.As much as 12in of rain fell across the area on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, triggering flooding and washing out roads. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Photos show California homes buried in mud and debris during Christmas storms

Towns across California have been affected by storms during Christmas week, filling homes halfway with mud, cracking highways and burying cars. The National Weather Service warned of heavy rain throughout the week due to a series of atmospheric rivers.

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8 d. ago Man jumped from capsizing narrowboat as it was swallowed by canal 'sinkhole' in middle of the night

The banks of Llangollen Canal collapsed at around 4am yesterday morning and water flooded out, pulling a huge 160ft wide chunk of canal bed with it and taking two boats down into the hole left behind.

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1 week ago 'The water came from nowhere': Settlements, hotels and farms flooded in Kenya’s Rift Valley

Dickson Ngome's farm at Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley has been submerged due to rising water levels

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1 week ago Shocking pictures show train station outside London completely flooded as it’s closed until Christmas Eve

The flooding at Rye House station is due to a burst Thames Water sewer pipe

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1 week ago Dubai hit by severe floods as UAE city experiences worst rainfall in 76 years

Dubai has been hit by major floods as torrential rain leaves streets filled with water, with authorities urging people to stay indoors as the weather is expected to continue through Friday

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1 week ago As the US invests in fossil fuels, young climate activists push back in the courts

In this week’s newsletter: A generation is using the legal system to demand accountability for climate harm• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereRikki Held grew up on her family’s ranch in Montana, watching the land transform amid the climate crisis. The Powder River, which runs through the property, has sometimes dried up during drought, leaving crops and livestock without water. At other points, rapid snowmelt and heavy rains have caused flooding and eroded riverbanks, making the land difficult to use.Two years ago, the 24-year-old and a group of other young people won a groundbreaking legal victory, intended to prevent those impacts from worsening. In August 2023, a judge ruled in favour of plaintiffs in Held v Montana, in which 16 young people accused the state of violating their constitutional rights by promoting planet-warming fossil fuels. The state’s supreme court affirmed the judge’s findings late last year, but plaintiffs say lawmakers have since p...

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1 week ago Dubai floods LIVE: Weather chaos fills the streets of Dubai with water

Police have warned people to stay inside

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2 w. ago Fury over 'puddle' rescue as locals condemn 'drain on resources': Drivers told to pay for call outs themselves after firefighters helped woman stuck in shallow floodwater

Video footage emerged last week of firefighters being called out to save a woman who became stranded in shallow flood water in Hall Green, Birmingham.

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2 w. ago Residents facing 'two feet high waves' as flooding hits Welsh town

Waves of flood water from cars passing through Briton Ferry have reached two feet according to one resident

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2 w. ago The Great Flood review – Korean apocalypse movie swerves into sinister sci

The storytelling is brittle, but there is still enjoyment to be had from this story of a mother and child and rescue from a catastrophic flood in SeoulKim Byung-woo’s chimeric but not unenjoyable sixth feature begins like a normal apocalypse movie, with a deluge inundating Seoul. Then it flirts with taking on social stratification baggage as a beleaguered mother tries to climb up her 30-storey apartment block to escape the rising flood waters. But once it is revealed that An-na (Kim Da-mi) is a second-ranking science officer for an indispensable research project, the film becomes a different beast entirely – possibly something quite insidious.As the film gats under way, An-na’s swimming-obsessed six-year-old son Ja-in (Kwon Eun-seong) sees his dreams come true when water begins flooding their apartment. Along with everyone else, they begin pounding the stairs – before corporate security officer Hee-jo (Park Hae-soo) catches up with them and explains that an asteroid impact in Antarc...

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2 w. ago Man discovers missing dad's body buried under family home where he lived for decades

Sister Jean Kennedy said she saw a psychic in 2010 who supposedly told her that her dad was murdered and buried at their family home, and his body was found decades after he disappeared in that exact spot

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2 w. ago Everything you need to know as Greater Manchester road flooded and homes 'without water'

Engineers are on the scene

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2 w. ago United Utilities issues update as Greater Manchester road flooded and homes 'without water for hours'

Engineers have been working to fix a burst

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2 w. ago Washington state faces historic floods that have washed away homes and stranded families

Days of torrential rain in Washington state has caused historic floods, stranding families on rooftops and washing over bridges

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3 w. ago Kevin Sinfield begins last leg of his 7 in 7 challenge which has raised more than £1million for motor neurone disease charities

The former rugby league star, 45, wore bin bags over his shoes as he splashed through flood water in Cattal, North Yorkshire.

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3 w. ago Burial ground discovered at site of mother and baby home in Tuam

‘Graves of child or infant size’ have been discovered at the site where nearly 800 infants are expected to be buried

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3 w. ago Billionaire Issa brothers revive plan to build Britain's biggest Muslim cemetery with 12,250 burial plots despite scheme being thrown out twice by officials

Wealthy siblings Moshin and Zuber Issa have tried to build a 45-acre cemetery with 12,250 burial plots near their hometown of Blackburn for four years.

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4 w. ago Britain's highest ice skating rink is branded a 'scam' by furious revellers after discovering it has NO ice

The Bussey Rooftop Bar in Peckham welcomed families for the opening of its new arena in Peckham last month.

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4 w. ago Global heating and other human activity are making Asia’s floods more lethal

Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive stormsDeath toll from Indonesia floods passes 700 as 1 million evacuatedFamilies stranded on their rooftops. Homes buried by fast-flowing mud. Jagged brown craters scarring lush green hillsides.The scenes are the result of a series of cyclones and storms in a heavy monsoon season that have struck Asia with torrential rains, gutting essential infrastructure and reshaping landscapes. The violent weather has killed at least 1,200 people in the past week and forced a million to flee without knowing whether their homes will still be standing when they go back. Continue reading...

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