A group of indigenous Australians plans to submit a complaint to the UN that accuses Australia of failing to act on climate change. The group resides in the low-lying Torres Strait Islands in the country’s north. It argues that Australia’s lack of climate change policies is putting their culture and ancestral homeland at risk. “Tides […]
Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province on Thursday as the strongest storm to ever hit the country, The Guardian reported. It struck with wind speeds of 140 miles per hour and was expected to raise waves 16 feet higher than usual and bring torrential rain. The storm comes little over a month […]
The world’s first malaria vaccine was launched in Malawi on Tuesday, NPR reported. It’s an important day in health history. Not only is it the first malaria vaccine, it’s the first vaccine to target any human parasite. The vaccine is the result of a more than 30-year effort by the World Health Organization (WHO), the […]
One person died and tens of thousands lost power as the second “bomb cyclone” in a month brought snow and wind to the central U.S. Wednesday and Thursday. The storm dumped snow on Colorado Wednesday, canceling hundreds of flights at Denver International Airport before moving through the plains to the upper Midwest, where it covered […]
At least 70 people have died in flooding caused by heavy rainfall in Iran since mid-March, as forecasts for more wet weather have prompted additional evacuations in the country’s south, Al Jazeera reported Sunday. The floods have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to agriculture and water infrastructure across the country and forced […]
Extreme weather events impacted close to 62 million people in 2018 and displaced more than two million as of September of that year. That’s just one of the alarming findings in the UN World Meteorological Organization‘s (WMO) Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018. “The physical signs and socio-economic impacts of climate […]
At least 19 people have died and more than 100 have been injured in flash flooding in the south of Iran, the country’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency said. The city of Shiraz in Fars province was the worst hit by the flooding, which occurred after a month’s worth of rain fell in a few hours, […]
The record flooding in the Midwest that has now been blamed for four deaths could also have lasting consequences for the region’s many farmers. Flooding has swamped fields and stockpiles and drowned or harmed livestock in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and other states. In Nebraska alone, the loss of crops and livestock is estimated to […]
The historic flooding that devastated Nebraska last week has also submerged one third of an Air Force base, offering a further illustration of the threat posed to national security by climate change. Flooding at Offutt Air Force Base forced the evacuation of eight planes, including one of four Boeing-made E4-B planes that are supposed to […]
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