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Total losses from natural disasters across Asia-Pacific last year totaled $73 billion, yet just $9 billion was insured, according to Munich Re.
PBS Newshour - 7 hours 20 min agoAn expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its potential impact on sea levels if ice continues to melt. Miles O'Brien reports on the work to drill into the ice to record temperatures and understand the impact of climate change. It's part of our series, Tipping Point. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
A study found that the stretching of the polar vortex was linked to increased severe winter weather in the United States in the past decade.
Of all the president's policy initiatives, this is the most potentially catastrophic, says former supreme court justice Robert Carnwath Jeremy Wallace, professor of China studies at Johns Hopkins University, rightly describes Donald Trump's most recent climate change decision as "abdication" ( Trump takes US out of Paris climate agreement for a second time, 27 December ). It was in line with his professed view that climate change is a "hoax", his dismantling of all the measures...
Climate change and pollution are making rare winter cyanobacteria blooms more common. The post Toxic algae turned a frozen lake green appeared first on Popular Science .
Emergency pumps are deployed in attempt to stop water inundating homes around River Parrett Like a sea out there': flooded Somerset residents wonder how water can be managed Since medieval monks started draining and managing the Somerset Levels, humans have struggled to live and work alongside water. "At the moment it feels like a losing battle," said Mike Stanton, the chair of the Somerset Rivers Authority. "Intense rainfall is hitting us more often because of climate change. It...
An invasive crab species that has been in the Maritimes since the late 1990s is migrating further north as climate change makes regions such as Labrador and Quebec more hospitable. … Continued The post This tiny invasive crab could spell big trouble for Quebec appeared first on Cottage Life .
Researchers have never drilled into the Thwaites glacier before...
As climate costs rise, states are passing legislation so fossil fuel can pay their share.
Trump's anti-climate policies have already been damaging to the Arctic and global climate protection. Now his deeply misguided plans for Greenland and the rest of the Arctic, if allowed to occur, would increase the chances of disastrous, runaway climate change, threatening the safety and quality of life not only of the people of the world's far North, but communities and people around the world.
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The former foreign secretary and head of the International Rescue Committee NGO, tells Nick Ferris that aid cuts must be reversed if the world's most fragile countries are to have a chance at adapting to the climate crisis...
The schism between Democratic environmental ideals and California voters' anxiety about affordability, notably gas prices, were on full display during an environmental policy forum among some of the state's top Democratic candidates for governor on Wednesday.
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