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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      News in-depthLibya
      ‘Brothers to the rescue’: Devastated Libyans search for survivors and answers

      A week after Storm Daniel, residents of Derna are still reeling from the destruction

      Fire and rescue brigades search for survivors: authorities have not communicated an official death toll as the scale of the disaster complicates the rescue mission
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Oil & Gas industry
      California accuses Big Oil of covering up climate change risks in lawsuit

      Civil action seeks damages to help mitigate costs of global warming caused by fossil fuels

      Firefighters spray water in the Sequoia National Forest, California
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      Explainer
      Catastrophic Libyan flooding fuelled by warming oceans

      An intense cyclone known as a ‘medicane’ led to more than 400mm of rain falling in 24 hours

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      News in-depthLibya
      ‘All should resign’: Derna disaster unleashes wave of anger in Libya

      Citizens vent at officials who ignored warnings while the authorities look to absolve themselves of blame

      People walk past damaged houses in Derna, Libya,
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Binance
      Binance criticised for ‘cynical’ crypto donations after Morocco earthquake

      Aid experts say donation of up to $100 of its BNB token is not what quake victims need

      Rescue workers search for earthquake victims in Morroco
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Libya
      Libya flood victims buried in mass graves as anger builds over failed defences

      At least 5,500 people killed by disaster that devastated eastern city of Derna

      A digger stands next to the grave. The bodies are contained in white coverings
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Special ReportFT Health: Communicable Diseases
      El Niño and a hotter, wetter climate aid spread of disease

      Flooding and heatwaves linked to infections in both rich and poor nations

      A doctor and her patient under mosquito nets
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Libya
      More than 5,000 bodies recovered in Libya flood disaster

      Death toll expected to rise after Storm Daniel devastates eastern city

      Men walk in the rubble of buildings destroyed by flooding in Derna, eastern Libya
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Libya
      Libya’s divisions exposed in city laid waste by floods

      Recovery and rebuilding efforts hampered by country’s chaotic and fractured politics

      An overturned car among rubble next to a damaged building following a storm in Derna, Libya on September 12 2023
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Morocco vows to rebuild as hopes fade for more earthquake survivors

      Government wants IMF and World Bank meetings set for Marrakech next month to proceed

      Damaged buildings in Marrakech’s Medina
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      10,000 missing as floods hit Libya after Storm Daniel

      Large parts of coastal city of Derna swept away after dams burst

      A man in flood-hit Derna
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Middle East & North Africa
      Libya flooding leaves hundreds feared dead

      Storm Daniel crosses Mediterranean to strike north African coast, with reports of dam bursts causing devastation in city of Derna

      Vehicles piled up along a coastal road in Derna, Libya
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Morocco gives no response to French offer to join quake rescue efforts

      Apparent diplomatic snub comes after Rabat welcomes help from other countries

      People look at ruined buildings after the earthquae
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depthMorocco
      ‘Completely destroyed’: Morocco’s mountain villages count human cost of earthquake

      The remote High Atlas region has borne the brunt of the most powerful quake to strike the country in 120 years

      A man walks past damaged buildings in Ouirgane, Morocco
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Morocco
      Rescuers dig for quake survivors in Morocco

      At least 2,000 people have been killed but many more could still be trapped in collapsed buildings in mountain villages

      An elderly woman is given help in the wake of the earthquake in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, south-west of Marrakesh
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Climate change
      Climate graphic of the week: Flash floods on dry ground around the world follow record heatwaves

      Heavy rainfall after sustained period of extreme heat leads to greater run-off and destruction

      A flooded suburb of Larissa in Greece on Saturday
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      LexLloyd's of London Ltd
      Lloyd’s of London: charging a premium for climate risks Premium content

      Governments might have to step in where climate change has caused insurers to retreat

      People watch a wildfire burning through a forest in California
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      US society
      Thousands of Burning Man festival-goers stranded in Nevada mud

      Torrential rains turn desert event into ‘hellscape’ of impenetrable muck and overflowing sewage

      Two festival-goers walk through the mud at Burning Man after a night of dancing with friends in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      EU politicians want more disaster relief funds after floods and fires Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: the EU’s enlargement debate genie is very much out of the bottle

      Volunteers clear mud as household goods are piled on the side of a street in Faenza, Italy
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Climate change
      Wildfires expected to spread beyond traditional danger zones, scientists warn

      Researchers forecast fire seasons that are longer, hotter and more difficult to control

      A wildfire burns in a forest near the village of Sikorrachi, west of Alexandroupolis, Greece
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Greece
      Wildfires in northeastern Greece claim 18 lives

      Authorities say victims could be migrants as residents had been advised to evacuate area

      Volunteers help an elderly man as a house blazes in the background
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The uneven response to US natural disasters Premium content

      Politics is getting in the way of efforts to counter and respond to catastrophes that are increasing in magnitude

      Hawaii governor Josh Green, centre, points to damage as he speaks with Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell during a tour of wildfire damage in Maui, Hawaii
    • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
      Climate change
      ‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer

      From Hawaii to Canada, searing heat and deadly wildfires are raising the alarm about global warming

      The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above a home in West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada on Friday
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      LexWildfires
      Hawaiian Electric/wildfires: old business models are no longer viable Premium content

      Climate disasters were previously events utilities could withstand

      Downed power lines in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii after the wildfires
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Lex is more
      How investors are underpricing climate risks

      The costs of inaction on global warming are potentially vast and often not sufficiently factored in to asset values

      A chart showing the costs of climate change with different levels of mitigation set against a picture of the burnt out town of Lahaina on Maui
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