causing flash floods. Human-caused climate change has doubled the likelihood of drenching storms like the one that hit Indonesia this week, and the one that turned streets in the eastern Spanish region of Valencia into raging rivers earlier this month ...

The Indonesian province of North Sumatra has been battered by a week of relentless rainfall leading to floods and landslides in several parts. Scores have died while rescue efforts are underway to search for the missing.

Indonesian officials say rescuers have recovered 16 bodies under tons of mud and rocks or that were swept away in flash floods that hit mountainside villages on Sumatra Island.