Climate change materializes the worst way for Europeans. In 2024, Europe has indeed experienced record heat but also its worst floods for more than a decade. Nearly a third of the European river network was flooded last year, which was one of the most rainy years on the continent since 1950, said European Copernicus observatory … Read more
A natural catastrophe ends the United States again. At least 33 people died and dozens were injured during the passage of tornadoes and violent storms in the center and the south of the country, the various local authorities announced on Saturday. Coming from the southern United States on Friday, these violent episodes are gradually climbed … Read more
Garance has now killed five on Reunion Island according to the latest assessment. The prefecture announced that the lifeless body of a man was found in Saint-Paul, in the west of the island, following the passage of the cyclone. The body was spotted on Monday by municipal employees who cleaned the surroundings of a pool. … Read more
More than 40 construction workers were missing and 15 other rescued after an avalanche in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India, following large snowfall, the emergency services said on Friday. The disaster has affected a construction site in the Chamoli district, covering workers in snow and debris. As soon as the weather conditions improve, high … Read more
It promises to be slow but the decline is well started in the West where several cities had been drowned under the waters for several days. On the quays of Redon (Ille-et-Vilaine), a highly affected municipality, the sidewalks were again visible on Saturday and large capacity pumps were running at full speed. On -site visit … Read more
Since last weekend, Brittany and the Pays-de-la-Loire face an “exceptional situation which goes beyond the history known in matters of floods”, to use the words of Minister François-Noël Buffet, in Visit Tuesday in Rennes. Last October, Agnès Pannier-Runacher made this same observation of “never seen”, for exceptional floods in Ardèche. Extreme phenomena that have also … Read more