Flooding and heavy rains rise 50 per cent worldwide in a decade, figures show
Such extreme weather events are now happening four times more than in 1980, according to a European science paper
Global floods and extreme rainfall events have surged by more than 50 per cent this decade, and are now occurring at a rate four times higher than in 1980, according to a new report. Other extreme climatological...
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