Tag Archives: Weather / Climate Markets

Record floods raise doubts about China’s Three Gorges Dam

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – As China calculates the costs of its harshest flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the controversial and massive Three Gorges dam, designed to help tame the Yangtze River, has come under fire. a new scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rains on …

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Flood death toll reaches 20 when Japan warned of more rains

Local residents are rescued by Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers using a boat in a flood area caused by heavy rain in the village of Kuma, Kumamoto Prefecture, southern Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo on July 5 2020. Mandatory Kyodo Credit / via REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) – The death …

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