After lethal floods, can Germany adapt to its local weather future?
Because the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change prepares to launch a serious report on adapting to local weather change, Adam Vaughan visits the location of 2021's lethal floods in Ahr, Germany, to find how locals are rebuilding
A message for volunteers in Rech close to the Ahr river, Germany David Klammer/laif
“I SAW a tree with folks sitting in it, crying and screaming. I may hear them regardless of all of the noise. However I couldn’t assist them. I didn’t know what to do,” says Melanie Schultz-Coerne, crying too as she recollects the traumatic evening final yr when Germany skilled its worst floods in six many years. She doesn’t know what occurred to the campers she noticed, however 134 folks within the nation’s Ahr valley died in the course of the floods in mid-July, with a whole lot extra injured. …
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