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The floods displaced more than 80,000 people, led to over 150,000 being injured and, on the 29th of May, to 169 fatalities with 44 people still missing (Governo do Estado de Rio Grande do Sul, 2024). Essential services were also disrupted, leaving 418,200 households without electricity and over a million consumer units without water. Dozens of municipalities lost telephone and internet services.
As the climate crisis causes heavier and more frequent floods across the US, one in four small businesses are one disaster away from shutting down
Europe is no exception when it comes to the consequences of climate change. It is the fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average rate.
Many are still missing after this month’s floods. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent, and it can be devastating
With global warming intensifying the water cycle, floods and droughts are increasing, and many countries are unprepared.
In our latest study, scientists from France, Germany, Netherlands, and the UK collaborated to examine whether and to what extent human-induced climate change had a part to play in the cold early April following a very warm March 2021 that led to large scale frost damages in grapevines and fruit trees in central France.
Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world
As floods increase in frequency and intensity, chemicals buried in river sediments become “ticking time bombs” waiting to activate.
A Belgian climatologist surveys the wreckage of his hometown. Pierre Ozer has been expecting these floods for decades.
