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Move of Rohingya Refugees Poses Environmental and Human Rights Concerns

Move of Rohingya Refugees Poses Environmental and Human Rights Concerns

On December 4, about 1,600 Rohingya traveled across the Bay of Bengal in seven navy boats from Chattogram to Bhasan Char. Bangladesh plans to move 100,000 families to the island. The move poses serious concerns, both with regard to the environment and human rights. Located about 18.6 miles (30 km) from the mainland, Bhasan Char […]

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    Affordable Housing Flood Risk Is Expected to Triple by 2050

    Affordable Housing Flood Risk Is Expected to Triple by 2050

    The threat to affordable housing from flooding driven by climate change will likely triple in the next 30 years, new research shows. The study, from Climate Central and the National Housing Trust and published in Environmental Research Letters, examined risk posed not just by extreme events like hurricanes, but also at the increasingly common threat […]

    Beavers Build First Dam in England’s Somerset in More Than 400 Years

    Beavers Build First Dam in England’s Somerset in More Than 400 Years

    England’s Somerset county can now boast its first beaver dam in more than 400 years. The dam is the work of Eurasion beavers who were reintroduced to the National Trust‘s Holnicote Estate in Exmoor National Park at the start of 2020, The Independent reported Monday. The beavers began to build the small structure in October, […]

    Cyclone Gati Threatens Somalia With Two Years of Rain in Two Days

    Cyclone Gati Threatens Somalia With Two Years of Rain in Two Days

    Cyclone Gati made landfall in Somalia Sunday as the equivalent of a Category 2 hurricane, the first time that a hurricane-strength storm has made landfall in the East African country, NPR reported. Furthermore, at one point before making landfall, Gati strengthened to sustained winds of 115 miles per hour, the equivalent of a Category 3 […]

    Hurricane Iota Breaks Records as It Slams Nicaragua

    Hurricane Iota Breaks Records as It Slams Nicaragua

    Hurricane Iota made landfall along the coast of northeastern Nicaragua at 10:40 p.m. Monday night as an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm. The landfall location was just 15 miles away from where the devastating Hurricane Eta made landfall 13 days earlier, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). It was also the most powerful storm […]

    Can We Protect Iconic Landmarks Against a Changing Climate?

    Can We Protect Iconic Landmarks Against a Changing Climate?

    By Erin Seekamp With global travel curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are finding comfort in planning future trips. But imagine that you finally arrive in Venice and the “floating city” is flooded. Would you stay anyway, walking through St. Mark’s Square on makeshift catwalks or elevated wooden passages – even if you couldn’t […]

    World’s Latest Climate Refugees Lived in Guatemalan Village Destroyed by Hurricane Eta

    World’s Latest Climate Refugees Lived in Guatemalan Village Destroyed by Hurricane Eta

    A large landslide caused by torrential rains during Hurricane Eta buried half a small village’s residents, leaving the other half searching for family members and neighbors in Guatemala on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported. Officials deemed Queja, a farming community of a few hundred residents, “uninhabitable,” and ended rescue operations, calling for the survivors to […]

    Eta’s Path of Destruction Continues With Flooding in Central America

    Eta’s Path of Destruction Continues With Flooding in Central America

    The storm formerly known as Hurricane Eta slowly dragged across Honduras Wednesday, dumping heavy rains across the region and prompting emergency flood and landslide warnings. A 15-year-old boy drowned in a rain-swollen river, bringing the storm’s direct death toll to four. Hundreds of homes were destroyed by floodwaters in San Pedro Sula alone, according to […]