Speculation On Climate Links To Surfside Condo Collapse
As hope fades additional survivors will be rescued and scores are feared dead in the rubble of the Champlain Towers condo building that collapsed near Miami Beach on Thursday, impacts due to
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Climate Change Could Force 200 Million+ To Flee Home
As many as 216 million people could be forced from their homes by the impacts of climate change in the next 30 years, a new report from the World Bank finds. The
Atlantic Ocean Circulation Weakest In A Millennium
Atlantic Ocean circulation underpinning the Gulf Stream is weaker than at any point in the last 1,000 years largely due to climate change and could cause disastrous sea level rise along the
The Haves And The Have Nots Of Climate Migration, Home Prices Edition
The climate migration is well underway, and it is the poorest and most vulnerable who do not have the resources or capacity to leave their homes. Climate stressors, like wildfires, heavy flooding,
Medical School Adds Climate Change To Curriculum
Medical students at Emory University pushed for climate change to be added to their curriculum — and won. After studying the health impacts and realizing the correlation was not being taught, students
This Mother Lost Her Home and Livelihood to Rising Seas. Now She Has Nowhere to Go.
Nurnahar and her family have seen the climate crisis take everything. They live in Bangladesh, a country where two-thirds of the land is less than 5 meters above sea level and increasingly
Flooding From Climate Change Caused $8 Billion In Sandy Damage
Human-caused climate change was responsible for $8 billion of the damage inflicted by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, new research published Tuesday in Nature found. The additional flooding attributed to melting glaciers and
German High Court Rules Delaying Climate Action Harms Youth
Germany's highest court ruled Thursday that the country's 2019 climate law unconstitutionally saddles young people with the burden of fighting climate change by "irreversibly offload[ing] major emission reductions burdens onto periods after
Unhoused People Endangered By Heat
The extreme heat broiling the American West poses heightened dangers for unhoused people. Monsoonal humidity in California makes it harder to cool down overnight, the LA Times reports. Even though 35% humidity
Sea Level Rise Could Be Extremely Bad If Warming Is Not Limited
Current climate pollution levels put the world on a trajectory to suffer catastrophic sea level rise, but decisive action in line with the Paris Agreement's goals could substantially reduce its impact, a
Workplace Injuries Caused By Heat More Common Than Official Stats
Official records dramatically fail to capture workplace injuries caused by extreme heat, new data described in congressional testimony Thursday shows. The dangers, which go beyond heat stroke and include injuries from falls
Ice Loss Across World Reflects Worst Case Scenario
Earth’s ice is melting 57 percent faster than in the 1990s and that the world has lost more than 28 trillion tons of ice since 1994, research published yesterday in The Cryosphere
Extreme Rain Causes Compound Disaster In California
Exceptionally heavy rain caused debris flows and flash flooding that damaged as many as two dozen homes and buildings in California's Salinas Valley, Wednesday. In Paso Robles, unhoused people living in the
Racism In Academia Isolates Scientists, Causes Suboptimal Outcomes
The dearth of Black researchers in the geosciences, which includes climatology, not only creates an exclusionary environment that isolates Black people within the field, but leads to inferior outcomes, Bloomberg reports. The
Experts Warn Corporate Climate Modeling Lacks Public Transparency
Scientists are raising alarm over the lack of publicly-verifiable quality of privately-generated corporate climate risk assessments, Politico reports. As firms respond to shareholders' and activists' growing calls for climate risk disclosure, a
Greenland Suffers Rapid Ice Melt
Ice sheets in Greenland are melting so rapidly due to high temperatures in the Arctic that the amount of ice melt from Tuesday was enough to cover all of Florida in two
The Potential of the Civilian Climate Corps
One part of President’s Biden’s infrastructure plan, a Civilian Climate Corps (CCC), could help places like storm-battered Lake Charles, Lousiana recover from extreme weather and prepare for future storms, Rolling Stone reports.
Navajo Nation Methane Pollution Rate Double National Average
Methane pollution from oil and gas extraction operations on Navajo Nation lands harms the health of local residents and robs the tribe of critical income, writes Hannah Grover for the New Mexico
Thousands Dead From Wildfire Smoke — ‘Hidden Cost Of Air Pollution’
As many as 3,000 people in California over the age of 65 have died between August 1 and September 10 because of the unprecedented smoke from the state's record-breaking wildfires, according to
North Korea Food- (And Global) Security Threatened By Climate Change
Climate change could destabilize North Korea and, according to a joint report by the Council on Strategic Risks and the Woodwell Climate Research Center, that could be bad. While elites in North