Impacts www.politico.eu Merkel pledges stronger post-flood focus on ‘climate protection’ ‘The German language knows hardly any words for this devastation,’ chancellor says on visit to flood-stricken region.
Impacts www.vox.com How climate change fueled the devastating 2021 floods in Germany and northwest Europe "These are the harbingers of climate change that have now arrived in Germany."
Politics www.nytimes.com Hundreds missing and scores dead as raging floods strike Western Europe Strong rains caused rivers to burst their banks and wash away buildings in Belgium and Germany, where at least 1,300 remained missing. Homes and streets in the Netherlands and Switzerland also flooded.
