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Sep
28
2023
By BIRD STORY AGENCY
PHOTO FEATURE: Fallen Giants

PHOTO FEATURE: Fallen Giants

MULTIMEDIA
STORMS with exceptionally high winds and record rainfall caused flooding and damaged vital infrastructure across South Africa's Western Cape during the country's Heritage Day weekend. The storms also downed many of Cape Town's old Stone Pines, some over 100 years old. Photos (Bird Story Agency, no restrictions)Fallen Giants: Storms and record rainfall caused flooding, cut vital infrastructure and felled trees across South Africa's Western Cape over the country's Heritage weekend. (Tom Kirkwood/Bird Story Agency/ September 26, 2023)
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Jul
19
2021
By The African Mirror
‘It’s terrifying’: Merkel shaken as flood deaths rise to 188 in Europe

‘It’s terrifying’: Merkel shaken as flood deaths rise to 188 in Europe

WORLD
RALPH BROCK and ROMANA FUESSEL GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has described the flooding that has devastated parts of Europe as "terrifying" after the death toll across the region rose to 188 and a district of Bavaria was battered by the extreme weather. Merkel promised swift financial aid after visiting one of the areas worst affected by the record rainfall and floods that have killed at least 157 in Germany alone in recent days, in the country's worst natural disaster in almost six decades. She also said governments would have to get better and faster in their efforts to tackle the…
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Jul
16
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 44 dead, dozens missing as floods sweep through western Europe

At least 44 dead, dozens missing as floods sweep through western Europe

WORLD
WOLFGANG RATTAY and DAVID SAHL AT least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing as swollen rivers caused by record rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages, leaving cars upended, houses destroyed and people stranded on rooftops. Eighteen people died and dozens were unaccounted for around the wine-growing region of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate state, police said, after the Ahr river that flows into the Rhine broke its banks and brought down half a dozen houses. Another 15 people died in the Euskirchen region south of the city of Bonn, authorities said. People in the region…
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