A new report says circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that flooded Dubai and surroundings. But scientists don't see the definitive fingerprints of greenhouse gas-triggered warming they find in other extreme weather events. Thursday's study says between 10% and 40% more rain fell in just one day last week than it would have in a world without the warming that has come from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. At least two dozen people died in flooding in the United Arab Emirates, Oman and parts of Saudi Arabia.
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FILE - A thick greenish film covers trash and plastics polluting the waters of Lake Maracaibo, as fishermen prepare their bait in the background, in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
FILE - Cranes lift waste, mostly plastic and paper at the GreenNet recycling plant in Atarot industrial zone, north of Jerusalem, Jan. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
FILE - People participate in a March to End the Plastic Era on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on April 21, 2024. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
FILE - A man walks on a railway track littered with plastic and other waste materials on Earth Day in Mumbai, India, April 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
FILE - Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File)
FILE - Pakistani laborers, mostly women, sort through empty bottles at a plastic recycling factory in Hyderabad, Pakistan, April 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih, File)
FILE - Muddy plastic bottles have flowed downstream and become lodged against fallen trees and within the dense foliage in Tisza River near Tiszaroff, Hungary, Aug. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)
Vietnam aims to transform its rice sector, making it more resilient to climate change while also reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. Rice is to blame for around 8% of global methane emissions. The government aims to plant “low emission” rice in a million hectares of land, encouraging farmers to use new irrigation systems where rice fields are not kept submerged but are allowed to dry out from time to time. New seeds are more tolerant of climate extremes. Vietnam is the world's No. 3 rice exporter. It must adapt since it is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change.
A worker carries a bag of rice at a warehouse in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Vietnam is the world's third largest rice exporter, and the staple importance to Vietnamese culture is palpable in the Mekong Delta. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
