Hong Kong flooded by heaviest rainfall in almost 140 years as black rainstorm warning issued
Record-breaking rainfall in Hong Kong has caused widespread flooding – shutting schools and businesses and turning streets into rivers. On Thursday night it experienced the most rainfall in an hour since records began in 1884. The Hong Kong Observatory recorded 158.1mm (6.2 inches) of rainfall between 11pm on Thursday and midnight. The weather bureau issued […]
US bird flu outbreak ‘wiping out everything in numbers we’ve never seen before’, scientists warn
Warnings over the spread of bird flu come after the World Health Organization said people should not assume the risk to humans will always remain low. Countries have suffered huge numbers of bird deaths since an outbreak of H5N1 began in late 2021, and it has spread to mammals. An outbreak of bird flu spreading […]
