A 32-year-old woman was rescued today from a tree near Neu-Ulm after 52 hours trapped.
A police drone team found the woman, who had been missing since around midnight on Sunday.
According to police, the woman was largely uninjured.
#ClimateDiary Germany floods: Firefighter dies during rescue in Bavaria
A firefighter was killed when the rubber dinghy he was riding on capsized during severe flooding and at least two people are missing in south Germany as the region braces for more rainstorms. DW has the latest.#Floods#Germany
About 6.5 million children in Afghanistan were forecast to experience crisis levels of hunger in 2024, nongovernmental organization Save the Children said.
Nearly 3 of 10 Afghan children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger this year as the country feels the immediate impacts of floods, the long-term effects of drought, and the return of Afghans from neighboring Pakistan and Iran,
When reseach shows global GDP will fall by 16% when we pass the 2° mark (on current trajectory in 16 years) then this is why.
Reminder the situation in #PortoAlegre is playing out in the context of +1.3°C (latest 5-year average) and +1.63°C 12-month running mean above preindustrial.
Climate alarm for Brazil. Extreme weather is getting worse, the current floods in Rio Grande do Sul have made millions homeless and killed 200 people. According to the UN, Brazil already has 750,000 internal climate refugees, a number set to rise sharply. https://nos.nl/l/2521499 #ClimateChange#extremeweather#floods#brazil
Several cars, motorbikes & even homes were buried under a #SandFlood as it invaded the #HamTien Mui Ne #tourism site in coastal #BinhThuan Province on Tuesday.
#Sand#floods often take place in the #MuiNe beach & #PhanThiet City areas whenever it rains heavily. The previous occasion happened in October 2023, when a sand flood invaded the neighborhood & the coastal road of #TienThanh Commune in Phan Thiet City, impeding traffic.
The situation in Germany's #Saarland region right now is giving me a strong deja vu from three years ago, when another hilly area experienced unusually heavy rainfall that lead to devastating floods. I really hope we don't see the same kind of disaster happen as we did in the Ahrtal 2021. At least residents and emergency services should be sensitized to what could happen.
#ClimateDiary I am not sure whether people elsewhere habe really grasped just how devastating the recent #Floods i. #Kenya were.
By the latest count, devastating torrential rains, floods and landslides in Kenya have killed at least 228 people since March and displaced nearly 200,000 people. https://mas.to/@rachelstrohm/112451993799960019