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Xinjiang’s Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest, experienced its first flood ​of the year in early June, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday
China warns of risk of ‘extreme floods’ in desert regions
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Xinjiang’s Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest, experienced its first flood ​of the year in early June, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday
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The â average global temperature last month was 1.42 degrees ​Celsius above the average in 19th-century pre-industrial times. The hottest May on record was in ​2024, in records going back to 1940
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Pakistan expects thunderstorms, heavy rain and hailstorms from June 11-13, raising risks of flooding, landslides and damage.
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Fear of severe heat wave in the country, heat wave warning issued from June 7 to 12
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El Nino-driven dryness is a double blow for farmers already grappling with fertiliser and diesel shortages caused by the Iran war
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El Nino is a periodic warming of sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean, which typically lasts between nine and 12 months, according to the World Meteorological Organisation
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Severe heatwave likely in Sindh and southern Balochistan today, rain expected at a few places in Punjab