Natural disasters and extreme weather articles
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Asia was most disaster-hit region last year, extreme weather events left over 2,000 dead: Report
In April and May last year, major and prolonged heatwaves affected much of Southeast Asia, extending to Bangladesh and eastern India, the study noted.
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Wholesale energy prices up on extreme weather, outages
A hot summer and outages triggered by severe storms pushed wholesale electricity prices higher in the first three months of the year, the regulator says. A quarterly report released on Thursday showed soaring heat and humidity increased demand and a severe storm in Victoria sparked outages as congestion in the national grid stopped states sharing […]
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Dutch take extreme weather in their stride at holiday time
Soaring temperatures, thunderstorms and floods are leading 38% of Dutch people to rethink their summer holiday plans, according to new research by the Dutch tourist board NBTC. The board asked 7,000 people in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Britain, France, the US and China about their holiday plans and in total, 46% said extreme weather would influence their choice of destination. But the Dutch, alongside the Germans, were the least likely to take extreme weather conditions into account....