Floods Devastate Central Europe as Death Toll Climbs to Eighteen
Austria suspends election campaign, while Czechia will still hold elections this weekend.
Austria suspends election campaign, while Czechia will still hold elections this weekend.
A five-year climate change plan meant dams were too full to absorb record December rains.
Ukrainian drones captured footage of the explosive-laden car on the dam days before the dam burst. However, based on recent satellite pictures, the vehicle appears to still be there, perfectly intact.
Thousands dislocated, the threat of disease, renegade landmines, agricultural fields lost to the water: Three days after Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam’s breach, the extent of the devastation is sinking in.
Over 16 thousand people are in need of evacuation from the “critical zone” on the Ukrainian-controlled bank, as Kyiv accuses Russia of “ecocide” to stall the counter-offensive.
The worst flood in over a decade has killed more than 1130 people and affected 33 million citizens. Assisted by the UN Secretary General, the Pakistani government has found the culprit already: Western fossil fuel consumption.
Following a series of scandals surrounding her decisions following the flood in 2021, German Minister of Family and Youth Anne Spiegel reacted to public pressure and resigned from office. She will be succeeded by fellow Green party member and financial expert Lisa Paus.
The God of Genesis may have promised never again to send a flood upon the whole earth; but he did not promise not to send capitalism.
A series of failures in the prevention of the flood catastrophe of July 2021 cost more than 100 lives in Germany alone. Newly-revealed chats that some high-ranking politicians were more concerned about not being blamed for those failures than about saving lives.
Regions in Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria were hit hard. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she was horrified by the “surreal” devastation in the flood-ravaged region of German. Merkel walked through the village of Schuld in Rhineland-Palatinate state, one of the two hardest-hit regions in western Germany. “It is a surreal, […]
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