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Avalanches Kill 21 People in Afghanistan, Death Toll Expected to Rise

Avalanches Kill 21 People in Afghanistan, Death Toll Expected to Rise

By Ankita Mukhopadhyay At least 21 people have died in avalanches that struck the Daykundi province in Afghanistan on Feb. 13, according to Afghanistan’s disaster management authority. Seven people are reportedly missing, while 10 people are injured. About 50 houses have been destroyed by the avalanches. Ahmed Tameem Azimi, a spokesman of the state ministry […]

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    Sea Level Rise Is Speeding up Along Most of the U.S. Coast

    Sea Level Rise Is Speeding up Along Most of the U.S. Coast

    Sea level rise in most of the U.S. is speeding up. That’s the conclusion of William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) latest annual sea level “report card” that measures tide gauges at 32 locations along the U.S. coast. At 25 of the 32 sites, sea level rise accelerated at higher rates in […]

    Build Your Own Solutions to the Climate Crisis With the En-Roads Climate Simulator

    Build Your Own Solutions to the Climate Crisis With the En-Roads Climate Simulator

    By Dana Nuccitelli Killer hurricanes, devastating wildfires, melting glaciers, and sunny-day flooding in more and more coastal areas around the world have birthed a fatalistic view cleverly dubbed by Mary Annaïse Heglar of the Natural Resources Defense Council as “de-nihilism.” One manifestation: An increasing number of people appear to have grown doubtful about the possibility […]

    2020 Starts With the Plain Prospect of Rising Heat

    2020 Starts With the Plain Prospect of Rising Heat

    By Tim Radford The year is less than four weeks old, but scientists already know that carbon dioxide emissions will continue to head upwards — as they have every year since measurements began — leading to a continuation of the Earth’s rising heat. And they warn that the rise will be steeper than usual, partly […]

    To Fly or Not to Fly? The Environmental Cost of Air Travel

    To Fly or Not to Fly? The Environmental Cost of Air Travel

    By Arthur Sullivan When was the last time you traveled by plane? Various researchers say as little as between 5 and 10 percent of the global population fly in a given year. But things are changing. According to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) estimates, there were 3.7 billion global air passengers in 2016 — and […]