Karachi, Pakistan – (AFP): The monsoon, which usually lasts from June to September, is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but also brings a wave of destruction each year. This year’s monsoon is being felt hardest in cities, where poor infrastructure and services lead to cl...
Lake Dukan, Iraq – (AFP): Farmers in Iraqi Kurdistan seeking to irrigate crops face seeing their economic lifeline slip away as the waters of Lake Dukan recede and dams upstream in Iran stem the flow. The large artificial lake was created in the 1950s following construction of the Dukan dam, to supply irrigation and drinking […]
TEHRAN (AA) – At least 20 people were killed and three others went missing in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Iran’s southern Fars province, state media said on Saturday. Khalil Abdollahi, head of the province’s crisis management department, said heavy rains near Soltan Shahbaz village in the city of Estahban led to the [&hel...
GENEVA (AA) – Described as “unprecedented, frightening, and apocalyptic,” the ongoing heat wave in Europe has claimed more than 1,700 lives in Portugal and Spain alone, the regional chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The situation points again to the “desperate need for pan-European action to effectively tackle climat...
ANKARA (AA) – Despite some positive developments towards reducing carbon emissions, global efforts need to be accelerated, as progress has been too limited and slow, according to the president of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP26. In an email interview with Anadolu Agency, Alok Sharma stressed that ...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Raging wildfires continue to devour thousands of hectares of mountain forests in northern Morocco. In a statement, the Ministry of Agriculture said 9,200 hectares of forests have been destroyed by the flames since last week. The statement was issued following a visit by Minister of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries Moham...
ANKARA (AA) – Two earthquakes rattled Afghanistan’s Paktika and Badakhan provinces on Monday, injuring at least 10 people, according to authorities. The eastern Paktika province’s Gayan district, which was severely devastated by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake on June 22, was struck again by a quake, injuring at least 10 people. The pro...
ANKARA (AA) – A strong earthquake rattled Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province on Monday, the second temblor in less than a month. “So far, one person is injured and 16 houses are damaged,” Mohammad Naseem Haqqani, a spokesman for the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA), also known as the Disast...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan authorities are struggling to bring fires that ravaged remote mountain forests under control. “The flames have damaged around 4,600 hectares of forests,” Fouad Assali, head of the National Center for Climate and Forest Risk Management, told the local media. He said firefighters were struggling for a fifth d...
MADRID (AA) – Excess temperatures brought on by the heatwave that continues to wash over Spain and Portugal have killed at least 322 people. High temperatures in the first three days of the heatwave in Spain, which officially began on Sunday, killed 84 people, according to figures from the Carlos III Health Institute released on [&hellip...