Summer floods in Europe were bad — because of climate change

Deadly flash floods that hit Western Europe last month were all the more devastating for one reason in particular. And that’s climate change, according to an analysis released on Tuesday by a group of scientists in Europe and the US. The World’s host Marco Werman explains.

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