WASHINGTON—Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but also threaten Gaza’s water supply, U.S. officials said. The Israel Defense Forces finished assembling large … Read more
Somali authorities say floods caused by torrential rainfall have killed at least 31 people in various parts of the country ByOMAR FARUK Associated Press November 12, 2023, 8:21 AM Vehicles try to maneuver through flood water caused by heavy rain, in Mogadishu, Saturday, Nov, 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) The Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia … Read more
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks to the media on the company’s sustainability efforts in Washington on September 19, 2019. Eric Baradat | AFP | Getty Images Amazon flooded its search results with irrelevant “defect” ads at the direction of Founder Jeff Bezos, pumping Amazon profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the Federal … Read more
Known formally as glacial lake outburst floods—or GLOFs—these deluges are driven by rising mountain temperatures. Where glaciers terminate, they deposit rocky debris that has been carried in their ice, forming what is known as a moraine. Sometimes, meltwater from the glacier will get trapped behind this debris, creating a lake. All around the world, glacier … Read more
Two years after the remnants of Hurricane Ian dumped up to 10 inches of rain on New York City in just two hours, the metropolis is once again inundated today by extreme rainfall. It is one of the many cities worldwide grappling with a counterintuitive effect of climate change: Sometimes, it will get wetter, not … Read more
Emergency services in central Greece are on alert as another storm system heads toward areas hit by massive floods this month ByThe Associated Press September 26, 2023, 6:44 AM ATHENS, Greece — Emergency services in central Greece were on alert Tuesday as storms headed toward areas hit by massive floods this month. Municipal and military … Read more
The worldwide cholera surge drove a vaccine scarcity proper when nations wanted it most. Malawi previously used the cholera vaccine for prevention, however “now when you don’t have an outbreak, you don’t get the vaccine,” stated Otim Patrick Ramadan, WHO incident supervisor for regional cholera response in Africa. In response to the scarcity, the worldwide … Read more
ByYOUSEF MOURAD Related Press September 14, 2023, 3:52 PM This mix of satellite tv for pc photographs from Maxar Applied sciences exhibits a neighborhood of Derna, Libya, on July 1, 2023, prime, and the identical flood broken space on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The destruction got here to Derna and different elements of jap Libya … Read more
Early Tuesday morning, Tropical Storm Idalia strengthened into Hurricane Idalia, charting a course for Florida’s west coast and panhandle. Its most sustained winds have already reached almost 100 miles per hour, and it’s anticipated to maintain feeding on exceptionally heat ocean waters and intensifying earlier than making landfall early Wednesday. It’s going to pound Florida—together … Read more
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Like wringing out a fantastic massive sponge within the sky, beginning this weekend tropical storm Hilary dumped an incomprehensible quantity of water on Mexico, Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada, breaking “nearly all rainfall day by day information,” in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service. Mount San Jacinto, close to Palm Springs, obtained almost a foot … Read more