heatwave in Europe – आवारा मुसाफिर

Brussels’ flower carpet blooms despite heatwave

August 13, 2022874 Views

The creators of Brussels' vast flower carpet, unfurled every two years in front of city hall, are opting for more heat-resistant blooms and the use of pot plants for the first time in the art project's 50-year history to adapt to Europe's heatwave. Returning to the Belgian capital's opulent Grand Place after a COVID-imposed absence, this year's design recalls the first carpet laid out in 1971 which was inspired by Arabesque shapes. A view shows a 1,680 square meters flower carpet made with Belgian begonias, dahlias, grasses, barks and chrysanthemums at Brussels Grand Place, Belgium, August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron With the installation expected to endure four days of temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), the designers have had to swap many begonias ...

खबरनामाघटनाएं

Tourist boats marooned, farmland parched as drought lowers Europe’s rivers

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

August 10, 2022223 Views

Business for Francoise Droz-Bartholet has reduced to a trickle, just like stretches of the Doubs River straddling the French-Swiss border that her cruise boats usually ply. Water levels in rivers, lakes and reservoirs across western Europe are running low, or even dry, amid the severest drought in decades which is putting stress on drinking water supplies, hampering river freight and tourism and threatening crop yields. The dried bed of the drought-affected Doubs River is seen in Arcon, France, August 8, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse The Doubs river should coarse through a forested canyon and cascade over waterfalls before spilling out into Brenets Lake, a draw for tourists in eastern France's Jura region. After months without meaningful rain, the river water has receded up the c...

खबरनामाग्रीसघटनाएं

Wildfires sweep through Mediterranean

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

August 6, 20211152 Views

Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens on Friday as emergency crews struggled to stop wildfires from spreading to more towns while scorching winds fuelled blazes across Greece for the fourth day. Like elsewhere in Europe, Greece has been grappling with extreme weather this summer and a week-long heatwave - its worst in 30 years - has sparked simultaneous wildfires in many parts of the country, burning homes and killing animals as flames tear through thousands of acres of land. Flames rise as a wildfire burns at the village of Afidnes, north of Athens, Greece August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Costas Baltas There were 56 active fronts across Greece on Friday, from the Peloponnese to the island of Evia near the capital, where hundreds of people had to be evacuated by ...