In the the first five weeks of Trump's second term, The New York Times ran six separate opinion pieces describing the experience as a "blitzkrieg."

Like all years now, 2025 began with fire. There was of course the sequence of wildfires that struck southern California, the most destructive to date, and the most expensive natural disaster in United States history.

This part of the world is no stranger to flooding. Valencia, which is the third largest city in Spain, is on the Mediterranean coast where the river Turia flows into the sea.