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Venice Floods After New Barrier Fails to Activate

Venice Floods After New Barrier Fails to Activate

Flood waters swamped Venice’s iconic Saint Mark’s Square on Tuesday, despite the implementation of a barrier system that was supposed to protect the city from the flooding events that are getting more frequent because of the climate crisis. The water level rose to a high of 4.5 feet above sea level in the afternoon, AFP […]

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    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 […]

    Typhoon Goni, One of the Strongest Storms on Record, Slams the Philippines

    Typhoon Goni, One of the Strongest Storms on Record, Slams the Philippines

    Typhoon Goni, one of the most powerful storms on record, slammed into the Philippines Sunday, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and killing at least 16. The storm came as the Philippines grapples with one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in Southeast Asia, which complicated evacuations. The country has reported more than 383,000 cases and […]

    ‘Ghost Forests’ Are an Eerie Sign of Sea-Level Rise

    ‘Ghost Forests’ Are an Eerie Sign of Sea-Level Rise

    Along the Atlantic coast, ghost forests provide haunting signs of sea-level rise. These stands of bleached and broken tree trunks are all that remain after salty water inundates a forest. Matt Kirwan is with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. He says ghost forests are not a new phenomenon, but they’re moving inland faster as […]