By Daniel Macfarlane Every fall, I take my environmental studies class camping at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan. Some years the beach extends more than three meters to the water. This year, in many spots, there was no beach at all. The story is the same throughout the Great Lakes. During my […]
Two have died and at least 1,000 had to be rescued as Tropical Storm Imelda brought extreme flooding to the Houston area Thursday, only two years after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, the Associated Press reported Friday. In Jefferson County, Texas Imelda dumped more than 40 inches of rain in 72 hours, according to preliminary […]
Record rainfall and flooding in southeastern Spain killed six people as of Saturday, The New York Times reported. More than 3,000 people had to be rescued from the storm that drenched Murcia, Valencia and eastern Andalusia on Spain’s Mediterranean coast last week. Some towns recorded their highest rainfall on record. While it is normal for […]
In another sign of the climate crisis, a record seven million people were displaced from their homes by extreme weather events during the first half of 2019, The New York Times reported Thursday. The number comes from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), which has been using data from governments, UN humanitarian agencies and news […]
The city of Gatineau, just across the river from Canada’s capital city of Ottawa was inundated by a 100-year flood in 2017. Then, this past April, the flooding was worse, which has prompted the government to tell people who lost more than 50 percent of the value of their home to just leave. Canada has […]
Nearly one million homes were without power, three people were killed, nearly 40 were injured, while thousands of people were stranded at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport after a powerful typhoon made landfall near the Japanese capital earlier today, as Kyodo News reported. Typhoon Faxai made landfall with sustained winds near 130 miles per hour, according […]
Hurricane Dorian lashed the Carolinas with wind, flooding and tornadoes Thursday, as the storm’s death toll in the Bahamas rose to 30, The Washington Post reported. The storm, downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Friday morning, was located 25 miles east of Cape Lookout, North Carolina at 5 a.m., according to the National Hurricane Center. […]
Hurricane Dorian, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record, continues to pummel the Bahamas, where it has killed at least five people and destroyed thousands of homes, The New York Times reported. “We are in the midst of a historic tragedy in parts of the northern Bahamas,” Prime Minister Hubert A. Minnis said […]
Floods and landslides triggered by record-setting rainfall in southern Japan have forced authorities to order more than 900,000 people to leave their homes and another one million were advised to move to safety on Wednesday, according to Reuters. In just 48 hours, Kyushu Island received more than twice its average rainfall for the entire month […]
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