The waters of China's mighty Yangtze River have inched upward in recent weeks, cresting banks, flooding adjacent land, and displacing millions of people from their homes.

Even the smallest degree of climate change will bring about rising sea levels, varying storm patterns, and an increase in extreme weather events.

Far from slowing the transmission of the coronavirus, summer has coincided with an explosion of the disease.

This year, record rainfall in China caused the longest river, the Yangtze, to overflow, leading to serious damage. But environmental experts say that a range of ecological strategies like tree planting and floodplain restoration over the last decade have helped to mitigate the impact of extreme flooding.