“The floods caused by the intense rainfall predicted for the current rainy season in Ethiopia will affect more than two million citizens, according to a study released today…
“…the National Meteorological Agency predicted that rainfall in the northwest, southwest and west of the territory will exceed the average records of previous years, and could cause unprecedented floods.”
“The residents of several parts of Benin City, Edo State capital [Nigeria], were rendered homeless as a result of a downpour on Saturday, which lasted for several hours…
“Moses Izekor, on his part, described the situation as pathetic, adding that they were rendered hopeless as they watch flood completely submerged their house and destroy property.”
“The rainfall records in Bhopal [India] has broken as the state records 32 cm rainfall in last three days, said Meteorologist HS Pandey on Saturday.
[Bhopal also broke its all-time annual rainfall record in 2019]
“”The rain in Bhopal has broken the record of many years in the month of June. The district has recorded at around 32 centimetres rainfall in last three days. The normal rainfall in June is around 16 cm. So, it is almost doubled this time,” Pandey told ANI.”
“Assam is in the grip of second wave of floods, triggered by incessant rains in the state and neighbouring states, which has affected around 25,000 people of five districts of the state.
“Over 12,000 people were affected in Dhemaji district after floodwaters of the Gai river breached a portion of an embankment at Sissiborgaon area in the district and submerged 10 villages.”
“A weather expert says it is rather uncommon to have rain and floods in June after floods were reported in five Johor districts [Malaysia], forcing more than 1,210 people to be evacuated from homes.
“Climatologist and oceanographer Prof Fredolin Tangang, of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, said the rainy season should have ended in May but it seems to have been extended by almost another month.”
“Wild weather caused flooding in Calgary on Sunday afternoon. It’s the second storm to hit in the last week.
“There are reports of flooding from McKnight Boulevard to 36 Street. There was standing water through Falconridge, Saddleridge, and other communities.”
“Across the US, authorities are finding that their usual strategies for protecting people against heat-related health problems are in direct conflict with their strategies for containing the virus — and with record-breaking high temperatures already recorded in some places before summer even began, those conflicts are likely to become more frequent.”
“A raging wildfire burning northeast of Phoenix, Ariz., now the largest active fire in the nation, is also in the record books after becoming one of the largest in state history as the blaze consumed another 10,000 acres as of Sunday morning…
“The National Weather Service (NWS) office in Phoenix said Saturday that the blaze is now the fifth-largest wildfire in state history.”
“An expansive plume of dust from the Sahara Desert has surged into the Caribbean Sea.
“It is forecast to complete a 5,000-mile journey to the U.S. Gulf Coast this week. This Saharan air layer generally hampers tropical cyclone development.”
“The week got off to a sunny start on Monday morning, with temperatures of over 30C forecast for several parts of Sweden this week — and along with them, warnings for forest fires…
“It comes after a sunny, warm Midsummer which in several parts of the country was the hottest in 50 years – despite the holiday having a reputation for unseasonably rainy weather.”
“A vast tarpaulin unravels, gathering speed as it bounces down the glacier over glinting snow. Summer is here and the alpine ice is being protected from global warming.
“In northern Italy, the Presena glacier has lost more than one third of its volume since 1993.”
“Authorities in Greece say a wildfire north of Athens has halted traffic on a section of the country’s main highway.
“Cars were being redirected to secondary roads near the town of Martino, some 125 kilometers (78 miles) northwest of Athens, as dozens of firefighters worked in the area on Friday afternoon.”
“Gripped by soaring heat, Iraqis in Baghdad try to stay cool by swimming in the Tigris River. A sweltering heat wave has pushed temperatures up to 43 degrees Celsius (109 F).
“With constant power cuts, it is a struggle for Baghdad residents to cool down during the merciless heat.”
“In 2013, an 18-month old boy got sick after playing near a hollow tree in his backyard, in a remote West African village. He developed a fever and started vomiting. His stool turned black. Two days later, he died.
“Two years and more than 11,000 deaths later, the World Health Organization put out a report saying the Ebola outbreak that likely emanated from that hollow tree may have been caused in part by deforestation, led by “foreign mining and timber operations.””
My apologies for the lack of an Economic thread this morning – events overtook me.
“Satellite images of northern Russia are showing strong signatures of so-called zombie fires as the region continues to experience record temperatures. Another phenomenon, fire thunderstorms — otherwise known as pyroCbs — were detected in Siberia and Alaska.
“”In the really far northern latitudes this is quite a surprise,” Dr Parrington said.
“”Events that were once thought to be relatively rare have been observed to be happening a lot more frequently in places of the world where it wasn’t thought that these kinds of events could take place.””
“As the summer solstice approaches on Saturday, soaring temperatures will bake parts of the Midwest, northern New England and eastern Canada through the weekend, potentially writing new records.
“From Chicago to Quebec City, temperatures are forecast to soar above average.”
“A strange temperature pattern will be in place in the East the next several days, in which one location in northern Maine may threaten its all-time heat record while areas farther south are nowhere near as hot…
“Caribou, Maine – one of the farthest-north towns in the continental U.S. – could be the hottest place east of the Mississippi River on Friday.”
“As coronavirus cases in Arizona hit a new record high, the state is facing another serious threat: wildfires, with several large blazes stoked by extreme heat and drought burning not far from three of its largest cities.
“Scientists say the fires are an ominous start to what could be a very active fire season in the West, as the pandemic, wildfires and climate change all converge to create a recipe for potential disaster.”
“…why do we [in Wales] seem to be getting more storms and extreme weather events?
“One factor [right, like there are so many other factors! in this is climate change: 2020 is on track to be one of the warmest years on record for the planet and it’s having an impact on our weather.”
“The UK can no longer be considered a wet country because of the effects of climate change, the head of the environment agency has said, as he urged people to turn off taps and take showers to save water.
“Periods of extreme dry weather, linked to climate change, are putting strains on our water resources, with demand threatening to outstrip supply within 20 years…”
“Brace yourselves: the first heatwave of the year is on its way to Germany.
“Some pretty hot and sticky weather is forecast for next week, with the thermometer expected to surpass the 35-degree mark in some parts of the country.”
“Residents in flood-prone areas of Lagos State [Nigeria] are crying out for government intervention after heavy rainfall caused flash flooding.
“The rains, which started on Tuesday evening, persisted non-stop up to Thursday evening causing damage to properties and stalling business activities.”
“Pressures from a changing climate, which is intensifying droughts, along with a decades-long civil war, are shattering the Horn of Africa’s pastoral economy…
“…and forcing Somalis into IDP and refugee camps.
“Women in the camps live in constant fear of violence.”
“Chelsea Rochman wasn’t surprised when her research cruise through Canada’s Eastern Arctic showed tiny plastic shards and other human debris in nearly every bucket she hauled aboard.
“What puzzled her was the colour. The answer changed the way she looks at her wardrobe.
“”Some of the particles that we sampled weren’t microplastics,” said Rochman, a University of Toronto scientist who has just published her research in the journal Facets. [They were] cotton textiles that have been dyed and used in clothing.””
“An international team of scientists has found that the summer sea ice in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica is diminishing at a dramatic rate.
“Since 2015, the ice cover has decreased by one million km² (386,000 mi²) and could pose a problem for local marine life.”
“The world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, one of the world’s foremost energy experts has warned.
“This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon rebound,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.”
“Moscow experienced its hottest June 17 in more than a century after temperatures hit 31.1 degrees Celsius Wednesday.
“Russia’s Hydrometeorology Center said that beat the previous record of 30.8 C set on the same day in 1892, Interfax reported. The scorching temperature hit at 4 p.m. in the capital.”
“The Anglia region [UK] enjoyed its driest May since weather records began in 1862 but flaming June has turned into downpour June as the rain keeps coming.
There was more rain in an hour on Thursday morning across East Anglia than there was during the whole month of May.”
“A number of Welsh households have been forced to flee their homes after being flooded for the third time this year. Rhondda Cynon Taf council said there had been significant flooding to almost 200 properties in the borough after storms swept across Wales on Wednesday.
“The village flooded twice during February’s storms with the cost of the damage estimated at up to £5m.”
“SW Florida has second hottest Spring – Jesus Hernandez is used to the heat… But this year seemed even hotter than normal.
“”It seems like we went into summer right away,” said Hernandez, 50, owner of Jesus Hernandez Lawn Care. “Normally it gets a little hotter and then a little hotter. This year it happened all at once, like someone flipped a light switch.””
“A wildfire in Butt A wildfire in Butte County, California, destroyed four homes on Wednesday. The Bush Fire northeast of Phoenix is the seventh largest in state history.
“It’s one of several fires burning across the western U.S. Red flag warnings and elevated fire weather conditions continue in some areas.”
“An intense season of fires in the Amazon rainforest this year could overwhelm health systems and lead to unnecessary deaths, including of coronavirus…
“…as pollution worsens respiratory conditions, public health experts said Wednesday.”
“Humanity’s broken relationship with nature has led to the coronavirus and other pandemics will follow, WWF International said, if the world continues to reject the warning signs.
“WWF’s new report calls for an international effort to reduce the risk of the next animal-borne, or zoonotic, disease outbreak, including stopping the trade and consumption of high-risk wildlife, rampant deforestation and booming industrial agriculture and animal farming.”
“Parts of Rajasthan are set to experience scorching heatwave conditions for the next 2-3 days.
“In view of these extreme temperature predictions, a red warning has been issued over the entire state on Thursday, June 18… Bikaner recorded the highest maximum day temperature across the state at 47.4°C…”
“The different global circulation models of the Earth’s changing climate agree that temperatures virtually everywhere will increase, and in most places so will rainfall, in part because warmer air can carry more water vapor.
“However, “There is one major exception, and that is the Mediterranean area,” Eltahir says, which shows the greatest decline of projected rainfall of any landmass on Earth.”
“New research from a team at Northern Arizona University suggests that subsidence, gradually sinking terrain caused by the loss of ice and soil mass in permafrost, is causing deeper thaw than previously thought…
“…traditional methods of permafrost thaw measurement underestimate the amount of previously-frozen carbon unlocked from warming permafrost by over 100 percent.”
“More than a century of oil and gas drilling has left behind millions of abandoned wells, many of which are leaching pollutants into the air and water.
“And drilling companies are likely to abandon many more wells due to bankruptcies, as oil prices struggle to recover from historic lows after the coronavirus pandemic crushed global fuel demand…”
“The Arctic Ocean will take up more CO2 over the 21st century than predicted by most climate models. This additional CO2 causes a distinctly stronger ocean acidification. These results were published in a study by climate scientists from the University of Bern and École normale supérieure in Paris.
“Ocean acidification threatens the life of calcifying organisms — such as mussels and “sea butterflies” — and can have serious consequences for the entire food chain.”
“In a new study from the British Antarctic Survey, scientists report that the Weddell Sea has lost one-third of its summer ice cover in the last five years. Summer sea ice has declined by one million square kilometers, an area twice the size of Spain, in the Weddell Sea along the coast of Antarctica.
“Many animals such as penguins and seals depend on the sea ice that surrounds Antarctica for finding food and breeding.”
“Twice a week, Nothi Mlalazi joins a long line with dozens of other people – some of whom have slept there overnight – and stands for hours waiting for water in Zimbabwe’s second-largest city.
“As the parched southern African country endures its worst drought in years – a problem scientists link to climate change – ongoing water shortages in Bulawayo have left residents in some suburbs without running water for more than three months.
“The tankers that the city council sends to deliver water every few days are often the residents’ only hope for clean water. Many will spend the night at the delivery point to make sure they can fill their buckets before the tankers – or bowsers – run dry.”
“…now Mali’s food production is under threat as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has sent the price of cotton plummeting, farmers warn, leaving them unable to afford key climate-smart inputs…
“As Mali’s leaders focus on buying hospital equipment and rescuing small businesses, farmers say not enough is being done to shore up the agricultural sector, leaving it at the mercy of climate change and the pandemic.”
“The West Australian Government will begin carting emergency water supplies to another dry agriculture region in the state’s south-east today after it made its 12th water deficiency declaration in a year.
“The small town of Cascade, about 100 kilometres north-east of Esperance, was yesterday declared water deficient for the first time in its history.”
“The Amazon river dolphin (also known as the pink river dolphin, or boto) is the largest of the world’s freshwater dolphins. It lives in the Amazon and Orinoco river systems…
“Now the [poaching] moratorium has lapsed and scientists are urging its quick renewal to prevent the Amazon river dolphin from going extinct. But so far, Brazil’s Bolsonaro administration has failed to take steps to restore the piracatinga ban.”
“A power company has admitted responsibility for the deaths of dozens of people in the 2018 wildfire that devastated the northern California town of Paradise.
“Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter after accepting that the huge Camp Fire blaze was started by one of its power lines.”
“The Bush Fire northeast of metro Phoenix surged overnight and is fast becoming one of the largest wildfires in Arizona history.
“The blaze’s footprint in the Tonto National Forest between Fountain Hills and Roosevelt Lake expanded to 64,513 acres with 0% containment by Tuesday morning, according to forest officials, making it the largest current wildfire in the nation.”
“As summer arrives, how will the most vulnerable escape deadly heat and COVID-19?
“A dangerous and uncharted trifecta of the pandemic, high unemployment, and extreme heat is looming, and cities [in the US] are scrambling to make plans.”
“Tornadoes have been spotted across two counties – as parts of Wales were hit by thunderstorms.
“Eyewitnesses glimpsed the first just five miles north of Brecon in Powys on late Tuesday afternoon. Then 40 miles away at Bont Goch, east of Talybont in Ceredigion, another twister was caught on camera.”
“This is the shocking moment a freak “dust storm” tore through Streetly [Birmingham, England] and battered people’s homes and cars.
“People living and travelling through Aldridge Road were left stunned when high winds sent huge amounts of particles flying from a freshly ploughed farm into the street.”
“One house collapsed and others went up in flames after violent thunderstorms battered the UK yesterday, causing flash flooding, with one area seeing the ‘worst floods in 20 years’.
“The three-storey Victorian building, which was unoccupied at the time, partially collapsed in the middle of the street in Chorlton, south Manchester, with firefighters seen checking houses on either side.”
“…parts of Central Finland, Ostrobothnia, and Pirkanmaa all had mercury readings approaching 30 degrees today, representing near-record temperatures for this time of year.
“Pori, on Finland’s western coast, recorded a peak temperature of 29.9 degrees today.”
“A big swath of Siberia has been way, way warmer than normal this year.
“Through May 2020, temperatures in the region averaged about 13 degrees Fahrenheit above average, with some places experiencing record warmth during this period… During each of the past five months, temperatures in this region were much higher than average.
““That’s rather remarkable,” Flavio Lehner, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told Mashable.”
“A team of researchers led by Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction, the Earth’s most severe extinction event.”
“After Australia, Siberia is burning, indicating that the frequency of such events is on the rise, with myriad dire consequences:
“…devastated ecosystems, risk of desertification, CO2 emissions, toxic particles, further climate impacts… An expert in atmospheric processes at EPFL, Athanasios Nenes shares his views about it.”
“Researchers are looking toward Herschel Island, the northernmost point of Yukon, to understand how coastal erosion is contributing to the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere…
“The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report doesn’t account for carbon dioxide released by permafrost in general…”
“…the world’s five warmest years on record have all occurred since 2015.
“We continue to warm on the long term and in any given month we’re likely to be knocking on the door, close to a record in the era that we’re in,” NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt told The Associated Press…
“Moreover, scientists pointed out that we are currently at the bottom of the 11-year solar minimum, when the incoming energy from the sun is reduced.”
“On a temperature map these days, Siberia shows up as a bright red splotch, like a widespread rash on the Earth’s surface.
“This region has seen persistently extreme temperatures since the winter, which has led to a damaging Arctic oil spill, sparked early outbreaks of large wildfires and helped vault global temperatures to new milestones.
“A winter heat wave throughout Russia became such a hot-button issue that it was the first question posed to President Vladimir Putin during his four-plus-hour end-of-year news conference in December.”
“The most staggering change of all in Siberia is the increasingly fire-dotted landscape.
“The heat that has engulfed Eurasia has led to major fires across Siberia (to say nothing of the Ukraine and fires within the Chernobyl exclusion zone this spring). Flames have even spread into the Arctic where fires have burned largely uncontained.”
“Ice melts in the Arctic Ocean were thought to be drawing large amounts of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, acting as a carbon sink and helping to mitigate greenhouse gases.
“But new research shows that may not be the case in all areas, particularly in the Canada Basin…”
““The danger is real,” says virologist Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. Bacteria could have survived for centuries on bodies buried in the soil that the ice is now releasing due to rising temperatures, he says.
“Climate change is having a disproportionate effect on areas with permafrost, including Alaska, Canada and Siberia.”
“The storm tore the roof off Marlene and Chris Hovdebo’s house… The Hovdebos said it only lasted a few minutes but in that time the strong winds blew over almost 40 train cars on the nearby tracks and toppled many trees.”
“The official start of summer is just days away on June 20, and blistering heat has already been swelling over the Plains…
“”The weather pattern from this past weekend has been brought about by an atmospheric roadblock that limits the normal west to east movement of weather systems across the nation,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson said.”
“Heat now causes more US deaths than hurricanes, tornadoes or floods in most years, creating a new public health threat.
“An investigation reveals why the CDC’s prevention efforts have faltered… Scientists link the warming planet to a rise in dangerous heat in the US, as well as the spread of infectious diseases and other health conditions.”
“The [Indonesian] government seeks to double down on peatland fire prevention and law enforcement following the massive fires that ravaged much of Indonesia’s forests last year.
“As we enter the dry season, Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya said the ministry has been creating artificial rain to prevent peatland fires in several fire-prone areas…”
“This is the dramatic moment a giant crane weighing 10 tonnes gets overturned by high winds before slamming into the sea in eastern China.
“Terrifying footage shows the heavy machine being pushed along its rails by the freak winds before tearing through its brake clamps in the coastal city of Taizhou, Zhejiang province.”
“A water crisis looms for 270 million people as South Asia’s glaciers shrink.
“Melting ice is crucial to the thirsty Indus River region. But now the flow is projected to decline, posing risks for agriculture and a growing population.”
“Weather and climate researcher Abdulaziz Al Hussaini, a member of the “Tasmiyat” committee, expects a second intense heatwave that will affect the kingdom [Saudi] from Tuesday…
“Temperatures are expected to reach over 50c [122f] in the eastern province and the Gulf.”
“Grain production in the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia has been severely impacted by one of the worst droughts in the last four decades…
“…leading to an increase in regional imports to meet domestic demand requirements.”
“The drought is continuing to bite across the midlands, south and east [of Ireland], despite heavy rainfall in many areas over the last few days, writes Declan O’Brien.
“Cereal crops remain under severe pressure along the east coast and into the midlands…”
“The town of Reni (Odesa region, Ukraine) and the surrounding villages took considerable damage due to heavy rains.
“The video below shows footage of strong mud flows that destroyed the roadways… Dimchoglo claimed that it’s a disaster for local budgets, which already suffer the impact of economic crisis, the drought and combat against Covid-19 epidemic.”
“Researchers in the Arctic Ocean have discovered a massive network of undersea faults that have been slowly leaking methane, which are believed to be contributing to the withdrawal of ice sheets in the region.
“Led by Malin Waage, the team from the Arctic University of Norway documented a huge number of active ‘mounds’ of undersea methane in the Barents Sea, some as wide as 1,600 feet.”
“For the last few decades, the effects of global warming have been especially pronounced in West Antarctica. Now, researchers in South Korea have developed an explanation for why the western half of the icy continent is warming faster than the eastern half.”
“Last month has entered the books as the warmest May In records stretching back to 1880, according to NASA’s monthly analysis of global temperatures, published today.
“By NASA’s reckoning, our planet was a little more 1.8 degrees warmer in May than the long-term average for the month.
“With NASA’s verdict today, two out of three independent analyses show the globe experiencing record warmth in May. The other was published earlier this month by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.”
“The severe Norilsk spill, which released over two weeks ago more than 20,000 tonnes of diesel into a river in the Arctic zone, is forcing Russia to analyze the consequences of global warming…
“The company and preliminary investigations believe the tank’s foundations were cracked by the thawing of the permafrost, on which it was built …which casts a dire prospect of what may happen in the future…”
“The state [of Alaska] stipulates that water temperature must not exceed 59 degrees Fahrenheit in order for salmon to stay healthy during upstream migration. Last summer, however, river temperatures in Bristol Bay reached 76 degrees.
“That spells problems for the fish: When salmon can’t avoid warm water, they can sicken or die.”
“The Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline has been shut down since early Saturday following an oil spill at a pump station in British Columbia, the pipeline company said.
“The pipeline crew are responding to a release at its Sumas Pump Station in Abbotsford, British Columbia, after an alarm was received early in the morning, Trans Mountain Corp said in a statement.”
“Calgarians are picking up the pieces after a massive storm brought tennis ball-sized hail and flooding to the city Saturday night… Saad Taleb, who lives in northeast Calgary, said nearly every home in his neighbourhood has seen some level of damage.
“”I’ve been in Calgary 40 years, this is the first time I’ve seen a storm like this,” Taleb said. “I’ve never experienced this before. It’s a disaster.””
“Southeast Queensland is experiencing an autumn mini-heatwave of sorts with one rural town having its warmest June night on record…
“”Oakey with 17.4 degrees (overnight) appeared to have recorded its warmest June temperature to date. “In terms of how significant this is, Brisbane Airport recorded its warmest night since 1958 and it appears to have hit 18.7.””
“East Sumba, about 1,200 miles east of Jakarta, last year reportedly had 249 days in a row without rain, with some experts blaming climate change for more frequent drought-inducing weather patterns, forcing people to adapt to survive.
““Nowadays, we no longer plant things,” says local farmer Thomas Tay Ranjawali, referring to the peanut and corn crops typically grown by villagers.”
“Some 6 inches of rain fell in one hour in Zunyi [China] on Friday, according to state media.
“Government officials said multiple chapters of roads and three bridges were destroyed in the town in Guizhou province. Earlier storms a week ago left 13 dead in nearby Hunan province and the Guangxi region.”
“Troubles haven’t ended for the state of Rajasthan in western India, which has been struck by a heat wave amid the ongoing pandemic.
“After witnessing a major locust attack and a rising number of COVID-19 cases, the state is now experiencing drinking water shortages due to the exceptionally hot weather.”
“Unlovely and unloved, vultures play a vital role as nature’s clean-up squad but are now one of the most threatened groups of birds on the planet…
“From Kenya to Ethiopia, Botswana and South Africa, these birds have been a reassuring and seemingly permanent presence wherever big game animals roam. But now there are signs that Africa’s vulture populations are also plummeting at an alarming rate.”
“Partially submerged cars were left in a flooded area after heavy rainfall in Ajaccio, on the French island of Corsica, the island is under an orange alert due to severe weather.
“In just a few hours, nearly two months’ worth of rain deluged portions of Ajaccio, the capital city.”
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“The floods caused by the intense rainfall predicted for the current rainy season in Ethiopia will affect more than two million citizens, according to a study released today…
“The residents of several parts of Benin City, Edo State capital [Nigeria], were rendered homeless as a result of a downpour on Saturday, which lasted for several hours… 
“The rainfall records in Bhopal [India] has broken as the state records 32 cm rainfall in last three days, said Meteorologist HS Pandey on Saturday. 
“Assam is in the grip of second wave of floods, triggered by incessant rains in the state and neighbouring states, which has affected around 25,000 people of five districts of the state. 
“A weather expert says it is rather uncommon to have rain and floods in June after floods were reported in five Johor districts [Malaysia], forcing more than 1,210 people to be evacuated from homes.
“Since June 1, steady torrential rain has drenched 11 provinces and regions in southern China, affecting 2.627 million people… 
“Wild weather caused flooding in Calgary on Sunday afternoon. It’s the second storm to hit in the last week. 
“Some of the warmest temperatures in North America are occurring right here across southern and eastern Quebec and Ontario into New Brunswick. 
“A raging wildfire burning northeast of Phoenix, Ariz., now the largest active fire in the nation, is also in the record books after becoming one of the largest in state history as the blaze consumed another 10,000 acres as of Sunday morning…
“An expansive plume of dust from the Sahara Desert has surged into the Caribbean Sea. 
“The week got off to a sunny start on Monday morning, with temperatures of over 30C forecast for several parts of Sweden this week — and along with them, warnings for forest fires… 
“A vast tarpaulin unravels, gathering speed as it bounces down the glacier over glinting snow. Summer is here and the alpine ice is being protected from global warming.
“Authorities in Greece say a wildfire north of Athens has halted traffic on a section of the country’s main highway. 
“At least five people in northwestern Turkey’s Bursa province have died in floods caused by heavy rains, officials said early on June 22.
“Gripped by soaring heat, Iraqis in Baghdad try to stay cool by swimming in the Tigris River. A sweltering heat wave has pushed temperatures up to 43 degrees Celsius (109 F).
“In 2013, an 18-month old boy got sick after playing near a hollow tree in his backyard, in a remote West African village. He developed a fever and started vomiting. His stool turned black. Two days later, he died.
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