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Earth
Valencia floods: warming climate is making once rare weather more common and more destructive, researchers say
In recent days, a seasonal weather system known in Spain as a “cold drop” or DANA (an acronym for “depresión aislada en niveles altos”: isolated cyclone at high level) has been causing heavy rain and flooding across Spain’s Mediterranean coast. causing flooding in Andalusia, especially in the Valencia region, Castile-La Mancha and the Balearic Islands. The storm left hundreds of…
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Environment
3 people killed in flash floods in northern Thailand
Tourists were evacuated from a hotel in the Thai city of Chiang Mai through knee-deep muddy water. Three people were killed in flash floods in Thailand’s popular tourist destination Chiang Mai, health officials said Sunday, as tourists were evacuated from hotels in knee-deep mud and shops in the city center closed. Two elephants also drowned in rapidly rising floodwaters north…
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