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Climate change added $4bn to damage of Japan’s Typhoon Hagibis

More than 240 mm of rain fell in the Tokyo region on 12 October 2019, associated with tropical cyclone Hagibis.

18 May, 2022 | Storms | Northern Asia

Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change

Photo by Konstantin Dyadyun on Unsplash

In the first six months of 2020, Siberia experienced a period of unusually high temperatures, including a record-breaking 38 degrees C in the town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June, causing wide-scale impacts including wildfires, loss of permafrost, and an invasion of pests.

15 July, 2020 | Heatwave | Northern Asia

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