Army joins efforts to find flood victims in Spain
Members of the military have joined the emergency effort in Spain where the worst floods in decades have killed at least 95 people. According to local media, at least all…
Heat Stress: Zimbabwe probes how climate change impacts health
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday called on fellow Africans to scale up research and surveillance to understand how climate change impacts health, especially the spread of diseases and heat…
Tanzania: Nino-driven rains destroy 240,709 metric tons of crops
Tanzania lost 240,709 metric tons of crops valued at 69 million U.S. dollars due to floods caused by El Nino-driven rains in the 2023-2024 season, according to a World Food…
Rwanda seeks to harness nuclear science and technology
Rwanda is set to establish the Center for Nuclear Science and Technology (CNST), stepping forward to harness nuclear science and technology for sustainable socio-economic development, a government official has said.…
Spain: At least 95 people have been killed in flooding
At least 95 people have been killed in flooding as torrential rain battered Spain’s eastern region of Valencia and the neighboring provinces of Albacete and Cuenca, according to Angel Victor…
Large areas of Brazil’s forest were affected by fires
Large areas of Brazil’s forest were affected by fires, with 22.38 million hectares devastated in the first nine months of this year, according to the latest report released Friday by…
Wildfires in Portugal’s Aveiro district have claimed two lives
Wildfires in Portugal’s Aveiro district have claimed two lives and prompted the mobilization of over 1,200 firefighters. Five major fires broke out between Sunday and Monday, with hundreds of firefighters,…
Climate issue tops Med ministers meeting in Cyprus
With the central theme of dealing with the threat of drought in the primary production sector, a three-day Summit of the Ministers of Agriculture of the Mediterranean Member States of…
July 2024 was the hottest July in the climate history of Cyprus
According to the data of the Meteorological Office, July 2024 was the hottest July in the climate history of Cyprus. A high temperature warning was issued for 13 nights in…
Drying dams in Cyprus is ‘like a nightmare’
The water situation at dams in Cyprus is “like a nightmare” and the capacity rate in some of them had dropped to 10 percent. Phileleftheros reported in his news report…