In which country have several people died because of the flood?

In Romania, to the east, and Slovakia and the Czech Republic, to the north, populations in low-lying areas have been put on alert. In the Czech Republic, several people have died, and anti-flood barriers on the river Vltava have been raised. Czech officials have declared a state of emergency in several areas, and in the historic city of Olomouc, 250 kilometers east of Prague, thousands of people had to be evacuated.

Writing in the respected American journal Nature, the scientists report on a 20-year environmental study in the Amazon basin. They say it shows changes which make the forests progressively less able to absorb the increasing amount of carbon dioxide discharged into the atmosphere by motor vehicles, factory emissions and other industrial processes around the world.