In 2012, Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on New York City’s transportation system. Storm surge pushed a flood of seawater into vehicle tunnels, railyards, ferry terminals, and subway lines. “Hurricane Sandy was a big wake-up call for the city,” says Susanne DesRoches, New York’s deputy director of infrastructure and energy. For example, the city has installed […]
Typhoon Phanfone battered the Philippines on Christmas Day, killing at least 28 and uprooting tens of thousands. Authorities revised the death toll upwards on Friday from 16, and said it might rise again, AFP reported. At least 12 people are missing. “The likelihood is present that the casualty count will still increase,” national disaster agency […]
The rate that Greenland‘s ice sheet is melting surpassed scientists’ expectations and has raised concerns that their worst-case scenario predictions are coming true, Business Insider reported. A new study published in the journal Nature from a team of scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency looked at satellite imagery from 1992 to 2018 from […]
The drinking water of 1.9 billion people is at risk from the climate crisis and the demand for water is rising, a study published Monday in Nature has found. The study set out to assess the vulnerability and importance of 78 natural “water towers” — mountain ecosystems that both generate and store water in glaciers, […]
If you read a lot of news about the climate crisis, you probably have encountered lots of numbers: We can save hundreds of millions of people from poverty by 2050 by limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but policies currently in place put us on track for a more than three […]
Over the past decade, climate-fueled disasters drove over 20 million people a year from their homes, concluded a report released by Oxfam on Monday. The Oxfam study, titled “Forced from Home,” was released as two weeks of UN climate negotiations kick-start in Madrid. It examined the numbers of people displaced inside their home countries by […]
The salient reality of the climate crisis is undeniable to many Americans. We have seen record heat waves from Alaska to Mississippi, record flooding, beaches closed due to algal blooms, increased storm intensity and devastating wildfires in 2019. Now, most Americans say the climate crisis is bearing down on them, and the government needs to […]
Record flood water levels in Venice hit again on Sunday making this the worst week of flooding in the city in over 50 years. Venice’s tide office recorded the peak tide of 1.5 meters above sea level just after 1 p.m. local time UTC. The new peak left 70 percent of the UNESCO World Heritage […]
The historic “acqua alta” that swamped Venice Tuesday night also flooded the Veneto regional council for the first time, just moments after it had apparently rejected measures to address the climate crisis. The council chamber, which is located on Venice’s Grand Canal in the Ferro Fini Palace, began to flood around 10 p.m. Tuesday, CNN […]
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