🗞️ In Climate News

• 🇲🇽 At least 15 people have died in Mexico as a result of Hurricane John

  • 🇲🇽 ‘Zombie’ Hurricane John regains strength in Pacific, flooding parts of Mexico’s southwestern coast

• 🇺🇸 Hurricane Helene's death toll tops 160 as Southeast digs out from storm's devastation

• 🇺🇸 Florida braces for Hurricane Milton. 

• 🇹🇼 Taiwan shuts down as Typhoon Krathon bears down on island’s southwest

• 🇵🇭 Typhoon Krathon to batter Philippines

• 🇨🇳 Shanghai hit by its ‘strongest typhoon in 75 years’

• 🇳🇵Hundreds killed as ‘unprecedented’ flash floods strike Kathmandu

• 🇩🇰 Emergency teams in Denmark are continuing to clean up the damage caused by severe flooding over the weekend

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Flood warnings remain as more rain forecast in England

• 🌍 Devastating floods displace huge swathes of the population across West and Central Africa

• 🇧🇷 Brazil dredges Amazon rivers to ease drought isolation, raising environmental concerns

• 🇵🇭 Philippines hydro boom rips Indigenous communities

• 🇹🇻 Australia’s ‘immoral’ coal mine decision akin to drowning Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu

📈 Cool Trends

• 🍄 Using Amazonia’s fungus to eat plastic and reduce pollution

• 🍃🤖 Integrating indigenous traditional knowledge and AI in hurricane resilience

♾️ eco-story

🌀 First-hand experiences of hurricane survivors on the Island of Providencia, in Colombia.

No one on the Colombian island of Providencia was prepared for what happened on the night of Nov. 16, 2020. Not even Josefina Huffington, who had survived four hurricanes. That evening, as she waited for the storm to pass by playing parchisi with her son, a tree, lifted by winds as fast as 305 kilometers per hour (190 miles per hour), smashed against her window.

“This is it,” she recalls telling him as she saw the roof fly away. They survived the storm, but their 1,700-hectare (4,200-acre) island, part of the San Andrés Archipelago, was turned into rubble..”

🌏 The Culture Column

📺 What we’re watching: Raging Waters: The Devastating Power of Floods

📸 Profile of the week: @weareguardiansfilm
📖 What we’re reading: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, by David Abram
🤯 Shocking fact we learnt this week: 1.47 million people worldwide (19% of the population) face intense flooding risk