Climate

Rescuers search for missing after deluge kills 30 in Brazil

Firefighters carry a body found amid the debris after a landslide caused by heavy rains in the Barrio Parque Jardim Burnier neighbourhood in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on February 24, 2026. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

Brazilian military police officers search for victims amid the debris after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais state. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

Rescue workers carry the body of a victim recovered from debris after a landslide caused by heavy rains in Juiz de Fora. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

Firefighters search for victims at the site of a landslide in Juiz de Fora. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

State firefighters said 30 people had died in the cities of Juiz de Fora and Uba, and that more than 200 people had been rescued. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

Juiz de Fora’s mayor, Margarida Salomao, declared a state of emergency. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

Rescue teams remove debris in search of victims at the site of a landslide in Juiz de Fora. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

Juiz de Fora’s mayor, Margarida Salomao said her municipality was experiencing its wettest February on record, with 584mm of accumulated rainfall. [Pablo Porciuncula/AFP]

Record-breaking snowstorm shuts schools, halts travel in Northeast

A worker with the Times Square Alliance sanitation crew shovels snow in Times Square in New York, US. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

More than 40 million people were under weather warnings in the northeastern US on Monday, as a winter storm dumped shin-deep snow and officials in New York enforced a citywide travel ban. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered nonessential drivers off the road until Monday midday and shut down schools. Authorities in neighbouring New Jersey and Rhode Island issued similar travel restrictions. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

The storm came just weeks after the region recovered from another devastating winter weather system that was linked to more than 100 deaths. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

Hannah and Astrid Grimskog play in Times Square during the snowstorm in New York. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

"I am sick of it. I don't want to see no more snow," Vincent Greer, a resident of Wildwood, New Jersey, said as he shovelled outside his building. [Drew Callister/AP Photo]

Pedestrians stop to take photos of Trinity Church graveyard in lower Manhattan during the snowstorm. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

The National Weather Service said snowfall would ebb overnight but warned that strong winds would still create blizzard conditions in some areas. [Seth Wenig/AP Photo]

Big cities, including New York and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, advertised dedicated warming centres for people caught outside in the cold. [Heather Khalifa/AP Photo]

A man carries an inflatable inner tube for snow sledging in Prospect Park in the borough of Brooklyn, New York. [Drew Callister/AP Photo]

Heavy rains, deadly floods hit southern Peru; thousands seek shelter

Torrential downpours cause deadly mudslides, while more than 700 districts across country declare states of emergency.

French firefighters search for a man who disappeared in the Loire River.

French firefighters search for a 53-year-old man who disappeared in the Loire River after his boat capsized during flooding in Chalonnes-sur-Loire, western France [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

A flooded road in Chalonnes-sur-Loire, western France. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

Floodwater surrounds houses in Jusix, in the Lot-and-Garonne department of southwestern France. [Ed Jones/AFP]

Four departments in western France were placed under red alert for the risk of flooding. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

Officials expect the situation to worsen with the arrival of Storm Pedro, which is poised to batter swaths of Western Europe. [Sebastien Salom-Gomis/AFP]

National weather service Meteo-France said on Wednesday the country was experiencing its longest series of rainy days since measurements began in 1959. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]

A flooded house in Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, western France. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]

The new rainfall from Storm Pedro could “fuel the current floods”, said Lucie Chadourne-Facon, director of flood alert service Vigicrues. [Romain Perrocheau/AFP]