5 h. ago Flooding damage from latest round of storms that has left at least 21 dead estimated at a staggering $90 billion

Climate change is making extreme weather events more frequent and severe

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31 h. ago Days of severe storms leave 18 dead as rising rivers threaten US south and midwest

Power and gas shut off in regions as flooding worsens, threatening waterlogged and badly damaged communities After days of intense rain and wind killed at least 18 people in the US south and midwest, rivers rose and flooding worsened on Sunday in those regions, threatening waterlogged and badly damaged communities.Utility companies scrambled to shut off power and gas from Texas to Ohio while cities closed roads and deployed sandbags to protect homes and businesses. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. It’s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith

Hurricane Helene proved a hard truth: a freezer of seeds is the literal version of putting all your eggs in one basketAbout a month after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last fall, Roger Wynn and I met in an Asheville, North Carolina, supermarket parking lot. He’d driven two hours from Little Mountain, South Carolina, where the passing storm had also left its destructive mark.“When the power finally came back on,” Wynn said, “two of my freezers didn’t work.” Wynn was worried not about spoiled food inside, but his seed collection. On that autumn day, in an act of forced downsizing and seed philanthropy, Wynn handed over two boxes filled with seeds. He wanted me, as founder of the non-profit Utopian Seed Project, to share the seeds with farmers across the region. The boxes contained a trove of Appalachian varieties: speckled field peas, white mountain half-runner beans, purple-podded bush beans and lots of butterbeans. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Sydney homes flooded and infrastructure damaged as swell combined with king tide to batter the coast

Sydney beachfront properties were flooded and coastal infrastructure damaged after a large swell combined with a king tide to batter the shore

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6 d. ago Lorraine Kelly storms off set as she realises 'gran' tattoo has huge error

Lorraine Kelly was left fuming on Tuesday morning, as she stormed off set after realising her new tattoo had gone horribly wrong - but all wasn't as it seemed

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8 d. ago How hurricanes Otis and John exposed Acapulco’s big divide and left residents ‘scared for our lives’

The last two big storms to hit Mexico have left the city vulnerable to organised crime and in fear of the next climate shockFlora Montejo always dreamed of buying her own home. After almost three decades working as a nurse, the 68-year-old invested her retirement savings in a two-storey house in San Agustín, a working-class suburb of the Mexican resort town of Acapulco.Montejo’s retirement dream was shortlived. Not long after moving into her newly remodelled home, Hurricane John dumped record levels of rainfall on Acapulco, triggering landslides and flash floods after calm creeks turned into roaring rivers. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Major hospital was 'left without power for 70 minutes after backup generators failed during Storm Eowyn'

Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert near Falkirk, Scotland, suffered a blackout during Storm Eowyn, which was the UK's most powerful windstorm for more than a decade.

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3 w. ago Met Office issues chilling volcano eruption warning that could see 'flooding and storm damage'

Met Office scientists found in a new landmark study that a critical process in the north Atlantic is partly influenced by volcanos - which can intensify already extreme weather

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