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Days of heavy rain made life difficult for people in Australia in March 2022.
Cities were evacuated because of the risk of storm surges.
In some areas, it rained as much in a few days as it normally does in a whole year.
Shown here is a flooded main street in Lismore in the North East of the country.
Photo: Dan Peled/Getty Images
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Not a drop was found here - a well in the district of Kairouan in Tunisia dried up completely in March.
The country was hit by a severe drought.
According to the National Meteorological Institute, this year's farming season saw 40 percent less rain compared to other years.
The increasing drought in North Africa is having a significant impact on Tunisian agriculture.
Photo: Yassine Gaidi / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
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In Somalia, climate change has made entire areas uninhabitable.
Hunger drives millions to the cities.
Rain is rare, sometimes, like here in April, sandstorms.
Hundreds of thousands of animals have starved and died of thirst.
The rising food prices in the wake of the Ukraine war are further exacerbating the problems.
"Somalia is on the brink," said Mohammed Abdiker, regional director of the UN migration organization IOM in September.
SPIEGEL reporters were visiting Baidoa, where many people are arriving and aid organizations have set up camp.
Photo: Sally Hayden / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images
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»As if the street were on fire« – this is how a street worker described the feeling of heat in India in SPIEGEL.
More than 40 degrees, often 45, were measured in May.
The probability of such heat waves in the region has become more than a hundred times more likely due to climate change, according to a study by the British Met Office.
The picture shows people in Mayur Vihar in East Delhi.
Photo: Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times/Getty Images
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More than 450,000 people were affected by the floods in Brazil in May and June: the rivers around the Brazilian Amazon metropolis of Manaus reached record levels after heavy rain.
The Rio Negro, which flows into the Amazon near Manaus, reached 29.98 meters, the highest water level since 1902. An aerial photo of the Olinda region in Recife shows the extent.
According to the state geological survey, seven of the ten largest floods in the Amazon region have occurred in the past 13 years.
Photo: Diogo Duarte / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
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In China it rained little in the summer – too little.
Dry ground near the Poyang pier in the eastern city of Jiujiang can be seen in an aerial photo taken in August.
Due to high temperatures and low rainfall, the level dropped dramatically.
One solution was seen in artificially making clouds rain.
Read more about this here .
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Heavy floods hit Pakistan in August and September.
Monsoon rains lasted for weeks and flooded an area of 75,000 square kilometers - an area a hundred times larger than Hamburg.
Many lost loved ones or their homes in the floods.
Here, a 15-year-old carries his most important things through the water in a sack.
According to researchers, climate change has contributed to the severity of the floods.
Model calculations show that the amount of rain over a particularly intensive period of five days was up to 50 percent higher than would have been the case without climate change.
Photo: Akhtar Soomro / REUTERS
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In some cases, the water levels were only a few centimeters: the Rhine had less water than ever in summer, as shown by a recording from Bingen in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Shipping was also affected by the low water – at times cargo ships could hardly transport coal or diesel.
Photo: Jürgen Wackenhut / Zoonar / IMAGO
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It burned in the Harz mountains for days this summer.
Acre after acre was devastated by the flames.
In September, the Wernigerode fire in Saxony-Anhalt was under control.
The forest burned in lights and in the meantime spread to an area of about 150 hectares.
The fires fueled discussions about firefighting planes and climate change.
On the Brocken, Italian machines support the German emergency services in extinguishing the fire (more on this here).
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Federal Police / dpa
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On average, more than 15 degrees - it has never been as hot as this year in Spain, according to the national weather office.
This was particularly noticeable in summer, like here in Andalusia.
Authorities issued heat warnings, people were already looking to cool off in the morning – cooled shopping centers were popular, for example.
Photo: Lucas Vallecillos / VWPics / IMAGO
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In September, hurricane "Ian" made a number of people in the USA homeless overnight, and more than 100 people died.
Wind and storm surges caused destruction on the coasts, and even days after the disaster, colorful eddies in the sea could be seen from space - sediments that were whirled up from the ground.
A motor yacht was pushed into a street in Florida.
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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Ice covers Hoaks Restaurant on the shore of Lake Erie in the USA on Christmas Eve.
The region around Buffalo was badly hit by winter storm Elliott.
Wind gusts of more than 100 kilometers per hour hit houses and shops.
Some died shoveling snow, others froze to death in their cars, dozens of people lost their lives.
In western New York State, the storm is one of the worst weather-related disasters in history (read more about the meteorological features here).
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