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Rescue crews worked Thursday to reach towns and villages in northern Italy isolated by heavy rains and flooding, as the death toll rose to 13 and authorities began mapping out cleanup and reconstruction plans. The extreme weather behind this week's disaster a prolonged drought punctuated by 36 hours of intense rainfall, two weeks after…
Floods have hit northern Italy after the longest drought in two centuries. Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini explains how these increasingly frequent events are being exacerbated by human activity.