“A third of Bangladesh is underwater…
“”The floodwater is constantly rising. Neither we nor our cattle can go out. So, I’m using a boat to go out. We’re having issues regarding food also. The cooking ovens have been flooded. Even our beds are also underwater,” Samsud Doha, farmer, said.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/bangladesh-underwater-heavy-rains-floods-200714133251746.html
“The Assam State Disaster Management Authority has said that 85 people have died in the state in flood-related incidents so far… in the Kaziranga National Park [Assam], known for its one-horned rhinos, around 51 wild animals had died because of the floods and 100 had been rescued.
“The report said that 95% of the park had been submerged under water.”
“The Pakistan Meteorological Department feared that the country might face more flash floods triggered by a glacier lake outburst flooding…
“Manzoor Ahmad, official of the PMD from the district told Xinhua that the department has predicted that more glaciers could burst and cause floods if the prevailing heatwave continued in the area.”
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/14/c_139212535.htm
“Heavy rainfall caused flooding in dozens of cities and villages in Iran’s northwestern province of Ardebil [Iran], forcing many families to leave their homes.
“Roads to some 50 villages have been cut near Meshkinshahr, Ardebil Province, due to the heavy rain and flooding.”
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/07/15/2307075/flood-inundates-villages-in-northwest-iran
“Flooding caused by heavy rain has impacted at least 27 of 31 of China’s provinces and regions.
“On July 14, China’s National Meteorological Center alerted that more heavy rain is forecasted for the area of the Yangtze river basin in the next 24 hours.”
“Two people have been found dead after a landslide triggered by torrential rains struck their house in western Japan, local media reported on Wednesday…
“Heavy rain caused flooding and landslides in some areas of western Japan on Tuesday, prompting authorities to issue evacuation orders to about 11,000 people.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/two-dead-japanese-landslide-031311256–spt.html
“Flash floods and landslides have killed at least 16 people and displaced hundreds in a district on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials at the country’s disaster mitigation agency said on Wednesday.
“Search and rescue officials were still looking for 23 people missing after the floods struck the North Luwu district of South Sulawesi province…”
“This year’s locust attacks, which spread from Kenya to Pakistan and India… may be the most economically destructive since the 1960s, said Chaudhry Inayatullah, a former research scientist at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi, Kenya.
“The swarms are expected to peak this month, as a wetter-than-normal monsoon arrives, and to flourish as the rains continue through October…”
https://eos.org/articles/record-locust-swarms-hint-at-whats-to-come-with-climate-change
“The impacts of extreme heatwaves amplified by climate change are going unrecorded in sub-Saharan Africa… Only two heatwaves in sub-Saharan Africa have been listed over the last 120 years in the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), the most complete registry of extreme weather event impacts in the world.
“By contrast, 83 European heatwaves — resulting in more than 140,000 deaths and $12 billion in damages — have been logged since 1980 alone.”
https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/07/15/deadly-under-the-radar-heatwaves-ravaging-africa.html
“The 12-month deforestation rate in the Brazilian Amazon has risen 96% since President Jair Bolsonaro took office, and the extent of deforestation over the past year is the highest recorded since INPE, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research, started releasing monthly statistics in 2007…
“June 2020 represents the 15th consecutive month of increasing forest loss…”
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/top-amazon-deforestation-satellite-researcher-sacked-by-bolsonaro/
“Historic heat across the South continues today with San Antonio, Texas hitting 107 degrees, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city in the month of July.
“In Del Rio, Texas, temperatures reached a whopping 112 degrees which tied the hottest temperature ever recorded in the city’s history.”
“Washington hasn’t seen a high below 90 degrees since June 25.
“The current streak, through Tuesday, of 19 straight 90-degree days, the second-longest on record, puts 2020 among an elite list of years for lengthy heat waves locally.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/07/14/washington-dc-90-degree-streak/
“…an exceptionally hot weather pattern has pushed water temperatures in most of the lakes to the highest levels on record so early in the summer.
“Over lakes Erie and Ontario, the water is the warmest it has been since the records began, and could warm more in the coming weeks.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200714/great-lakes-water-temperatures-blowing-away-records
“Farmers in parts of Alberta say their crops are under water and are bracing for a devastating harvest. It has been so wet, many fields look more like lakes. John Guelly, a farmer in Westlock County, said even if his wheat and canola crops do dry out — it’s too late.
““The damage is done,” Guelly said.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/7175003/alberta-farmers-2020-harvest-weather-hail-rain/
““My main point is that we are and were not ready for fires because we have not seriously recognised the effects of global warming,” says Pavlova, agreeing with much of the criticism from Chernobyl Tours…
“She says that strong winds and a dry winter and spring made it almost impossible to stop the fires, which started in the western part of the closed Chernobyl zone.”
“Fuelled by record high temperatures in Siberia, the fires are currently burning on an area of land the size of Luxembourg, or 333,000 hectares. Greenpeace said earlier this summer the blazes were covering an area of some 3 million hectares.
“After a week where the fires had calmed down, outbreaks multiplied again over the weekend…”
“Microplastic particles shed by tyres and brakes are swept by winds to remote areas including the Arctic where they darken the surface and hasten the melting of ice.
“About 48,000 tonnes of these particles end up in snow and ice-covered areas each year, scientists calculated.”
“Global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, have soared over the past decade, according to two new studies that tracked growing sources of the odorless, colorless gas.”
“An increase in the spread of non-native plant and animals species around the world could lead to dramatic biodiversity loss, a new study has found, causing permanent damage to ecosystems as they are pushed past biological tipping points…
“…a non-native species can disrupt that balance and wipe out other organisms, resulting in a large population of the invasive plant or animal.”
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