4th May - Today's News: Death Toll Rises in Brazil Floods

Brazil floods: Dam collapses and death toll rises in Rio Grande do Sul as the flooding in Brazil's southernmost state Rio Grande do Sul kills at least 39 with almost 70 missing

Kenya floods: Nairobi homes demolished as Cyclone Hidaya approaches

So why has the flooding in Kenya been so devastating?

Texas tornado rips through town before baseball-sized hail pummels residents as flooding swamps southeast Texas after more than a foot of rain

Extreme wildfire warning issued for north-west Scotland

Snappers have field day as storms light the night in parts of England

A need to adapt as London seeing more days above 30C, experts say whilst climate change amplifies severity of combined wind-rain extremes over the UK and Ireland

Greece experiences warmest April in 15 years

Antarctic ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes

Evidence that an Earth-like environment likely on ancient Mars  But Webb telescope probably didn't find life on an exoplanet -- yet

And summer heat hits Asia early, killing dozens as one expert calls it the "most extreme event" in climate history whilst extreme climate hit Japan, elsewhere in Asia hard in 2023: U.N


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