September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in Libya, which have killed more than 11,000 people according to the...
‘Ferocious strength’ of storm that caused Libya’s devastating floods was powered by climate change, scientists say. The cyclone that caused devastating floods in Libya is the latest extreme weather event to carry the hallmarks of climate change, scientists say. The Mediterranean storm dumped torrential rain on the Libyan coast set off flooding that’s killed thousands of people. The death...