Houston, Mumbai, Karachi: Spate of flood disasters illustrate our vulnerability

There's something about the mid-to-late summer that tends to bring extreme weather events of enormous magnitude. There was the 2010 Russian heat wave and Pakistan floods, which together killed tens of thousands, and the 2003 European heat wave. Of course, this year, there's the unprecedented Texas deluge from Hurricane Harvey. 

While Harvey has garnered most of the attention in the U.S. — and rightly so, given the extraordinary scope and scale of the disaster, a wider view of the world reveals that Houston is not alone. Flooding disasters have been taking place in large cities and rural towns across Asia and Africa.  Read more...

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