From floods in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia: extreme weather seems almost everywhere

In sweltering Brazil, the worst floods ever killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about four million inhabitants. Voters and politicians at the world’s biggest elections in India are fainting from heat that can reach 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people … Read more

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