Climate change makes Europe’s summers hotter, intensifying fires and droughts while threatening lives and economies.
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Al Jazeera meteorologist based in Doha.
Climate change makes Europe’s summers hotter, intensifying fires and droughts while threatening lives and economies.
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The second major storm in a week threatens damaging winds and widespread floods across the Korean Peninsula.

Warnings issued as the system becomes the earliest third named storm on record in the history of Atlantic hurricanes.

Developing system threatens damaging winds and flooding rains along the northwest coasts of Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Massive cyclonic storm intensifies in the Bay of Bengal and heads towards the vulnerable Ganges Delta.

Tropical Cyclone Kyarr weakens along the south coast of Oman as Tropical Cyclone Maha rolls in behind.

From tropical storm to a Category 5 equivalent, Hagibis is one of the most explosive storms on record.

Storm gathers pace as it heads towards Yellow Sea, forecast to hit North Korean province of Hwanghae on Saturday.

A final warning has been issued for the remnants of the system, but further floods are expected across north Vietnam.

Tropical storm could help douse a record-breaking November heatwave in Australia.
