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The Independent
2 days ago
- Climate
- The Independent
Climate change could spell the end for beaches at European hot-spot
& Suman Naishadham Coastal erosion is severely impacting Montgat, a town north of Barcelona, threatening its beaches and summer tourism. The erosion is primarily caused by climate change, leading to more intense storms and significant sea level rise. Man-made beaches, developed for tourism after the 1992 Olympics, are eroding at an accelerated rate compared to natural coastlines. Authorities recognise that simply replenishing sand is insufficient, advocating for structural solutions like breakwaters to prevent further loss. Scientists report that sea levels along the Catalan coast are four times higher than three decades ago, with an estimated 60 million euros needed to stabilise the metropolitan coastline.
CTV News
3 days ago
- Automotive
- CTV News
Serious collision closes stretch of road in Wellington County
A section of Wellington Road 124 is closed following a serious collision in Wellington County. Ontario Provincial Police say the crash happened early Tuesday morning, prompting a closure between Third Line and Wellington Road 29. Authorities are urging drivers to avoid the area and plan alternate routes. There is no word on how many vehicles were involved or whether anyone was injured. Officials say more information will be shared as it becomes available.
Arab News
3 days ago
- Climate
- Arab News
Two dead, 10 missing after flash floods in eastern China
BEIJING: Flash floods in eastern China's Shandong province killed two people and left 10 missing on Tuesday, state media to 364 millimeters (14 inches) of rain lashed parts of the provincial capital Jinan between midnight and 5 am, according to state broadcaster downpours triggered flash floods in two villages in the town of Dawangzhuang, 'destroying or damaging' 19 homes, CCTV said.'At present, all-out efforts are being made to search for and recover the missing persons,' the broadcaster added that authorities would 'carry out post-disaster rescue and follow-up work in an orderly manner.'Natural disasters are common in China, particularly in summer when some regions experience heavy rainfall while others bake in searing heat is the world's biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that scientists generally agree cause climate change and make extreme weather more frequent and it is also a global renewable energy powerhouse that aims to make its massive economy carbon-neutral by people were killed and more than 80,000 evacuated due to floods in southern Guizhou province in June, according to state media.A landslide on a highway in Sichuan province this month also killed five people after it swept several cars down a mountainside.
CNA
6 days ago
- Climate
- CNA
Damage mounts in South Korea as torrential rains enter fourth day
SEOUL: Torrential rains that lashed South Korea for a fourth day on Saturday (Jul 19) kept nearly 3,000 people from returning to their homes, while livestock were stranded up to the neck in rising waters as the death toll reached four with two missing, authorities said. Rain will last until Monday in some areas, weather officials said, urging extreme caution against the risk of landslides and flooding, with warnings across most of the nation. By 6am on Saturday, 2,816 people were still out of their homes, the interior ministry said, from a total of more than 7,000 evacuated during the prior days of heavy rain, in which four have died and two are missing. Rainfall since Wednesday reached a record of more than 500mm at Seosan, in the South Chungcheong province south of the capital, Seoul, it added. Elsewhere in the province cows were desperately trying to keep their heads above water after sheds and stables flooded. The tally of water-damaged structures stood at more than 641 buildings, 388 roads and 59 farms, the ministry said. Rains were also expected in neighbouring North Korea.
Washington Post
6 days ago
- Washington Post
Cambodia continues raids on scam centers, bringing arrests in past 3 weeks over 2,100
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Authorities in Cambodia continued their stepped-up campaign against online scam centers, arresting at least 500 suspects in two provinces on Thursday and Friday, the country's information minister said. The arrests in Kandal province on the outskirts of the capital Phnom Penh, and in the northeastern province of Stung Treng, brought to 2,137 the total number detained since June 27, Information Minister Neth Pheaktra said in a statement.
