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Global wine production reached a historic low in 2023 and climate change could be to blame, a new report has revealed. The International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) says the drink hit its lowest level since 1962. This intergovernmental organisation has 50 member states, representing 75 per cent of the world’s vineyard area. Experts blame “extreme environmental conditions” including droughts and fires that have been driving the downward trend in production. Though climate change is not entirely to blame, the OIV says, these conditions are the greatest challenge the industry is facing. V...
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Circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that just flooded Dubai and other parts of the Persian Gulf, but scientists didn't discover the definitive fingerprints of greenhouse gas-triggered warming they have seen in other extreme weather events, a new report found. Between 10 per cent and 40 per cent more rain fell in just one day last week than it would have in a world without the 1.2 degrees Celsius from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas since the mid-19th century, scientists at World Weather Attribution said Thursday in a flash study that is too ...
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According to the Russian Emergency Ministry, over 500 properties remain flooded in 17 settlements in Russia's Tyumen region, with more than 3,500 people evacuated. Rescue efforts are also underway in flooded areas in neighbouring Kazakhstan.
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With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood - at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralysed Dubai this week, meteorologists have said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No one reports the type of flooding that on Tuesday doused the UAE, which often deploys the technology in an attempt to squeeze every drop of moisture from a sky that usually gives less than 10 to 13 centimetres of rain a year. "It's most certainly not cloud s...
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The United Arab Emirates has been inundated with heavy rain, with major highways flooded and flights disrupted at Dubai International airport. Local media described the precipitation as a “historic weather event”, saying the amount of rain recorded surpassed anything documented since data collection started in 1949. Rain is unusual in the UAE but does occur periodically during the cooler winter months. Many roads and other areas lack drainage given the lack of regular rainfall. In the latest storm, Dubai reported 142mm of rain in a single day – the same amount the city typically expects in 18 ...
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Kazakh local authorities have started blowing up artificial dams built by locals in an effort to bring down water levels in flooded areas. While levels are falling in the city of Kulsary in western Kazakhstan, more than 3,000 houses are still flooded, according to local TV station KZ24. To combat the flooding, local authorities started blowing up the dams that agricultural workers installed to collect water for farming and agriculture. In other affected areas, authorities including the military have been building temporary barriers, building dikes and filling sandbags to stop the water from fl...
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January, February and March are likely to have been Spain’s warmest first quarter since records began in 1961. National meteorological agency Aemet said on Tuesday that the average temperature in mainland Spain during the first three months of the year was 9.5C. That is 1.9C higher than the average for this time of year and 0.1C higher than the previous record set in 1997. Final data is still needed to confirm the record but the meteorological agency has said, as January and February were already very warm months, it believes the first quarter of 2024 was the warmest in history. Temperatures i...
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Spain's state Met Office Aemet has warned of a weekend of unsettled and "wintry weather" this weekend in five of Andalucía's provinces. Storm Monica has caused rough rain, snow, wind or rough sea conditions and is due to continue until Sunday night. Since 10am on Saturday, much of Andalucia has under yellow and amber alert - making the impact of the weather as low (for yellow warnings) to severe (for amber), with some disruption to travel. Strong winds are forecasted in Almeria, Cadiz and Malaga provinces. A yellow warning has also been activated for sea swell on the coast of Almeria, Cadiz an...
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Earlier this month, Catalonia declared a drought emergency. With levels in reservoirs as low as 16 per cent of capacity and no rain in some areas for three years, authorities brought in restrictions on how much water residents can use. But Spain isn’t the only country suffering as southern Europe’s water supplies run low. Around 17 per cent of EU territory is now facing serious drought conditions, according to the European Drought Observatory’s latest update. Just over 1 per cent is at the highest level of warning. “If we look at the current conditions, based on the latest data we have availab...
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Authorities in Denmark are working against the clock to stop a slow-moving landslide of contaminated soil from reaching a nearby water source. Public officials and the company that operated the site are arguing over who should pay for the massive cleanup. The 75-meter-tall heap of dirt is at the Nordic Waste reprocessing plant south of the town of Randers in northwestern Denmark. Containing some 3 million cubic meters of soil contaminated with heavy metals and oil products, it is slowly moving towards the village of Ølst which has 400 inhabitants. The landslide was initially moving at a pace o...
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