Meanwhile in Europe, nearly 200 people died as torrential rains soaked Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Scientists concluded that climate change had made the floods 20 per cent more likely to occur.
Large parts of South America are suffering from a prolonged drought. While Chile is enduring a decade-long megadrought linked to global warming, this year Brazil saw one of its driest years in a century.Around the globe, heatwaves are becoming both more frequent and more severe.In the Mediterranean, a hot and dry summer fanned intense blazes that forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in Algeria, Greece and Turkey.
Switzerland already has lost 500 of its glaciers, and could lose 90 per cent of the 1,500 that remain by the end of the century if global emissions continue to rise, the government said. Climate change is strengthening hurricanes, while also causing them to linger longer over land – dumping more rain on an area before moving on. Studies also suggest these storms are becoming more frequent in the North Atlantic.Infrastructure and homes in Russia are increasingly in peril as underground permafrost melts and deforms the land underneath them.
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