Severe Storms & Flooding
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UNEP Calls for Better Funding to Speed Global Climate Adaptation
As the climate crisis accelerates and the Earth nears a fast-approaching “temperature tipping point,” the world’s nations need to speed up their adaptation planning ... -
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Bangladesh Moves 3,400 Rohingya to Flood-Prone Island Amid Warnings of Forced Relocation
Bangladesh closed out 2020 by transporting at least 1,800 Rohingya refugees to the remote and flood-prone Bhasan Char island in the Bay of Bengal, ... -
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Insurance Industry Contends with Rising Losses as Climate Chaos Sweeps the Globe
The climate crisis is exacting a rising price from the global insurance industry, a relief and development agency says. As the world digests the ... -
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B.C. Risks ‘Massive Losses’ without Better Planning for Storm Surges, Sea Level Rise
VANCOUVER — Parts of British Columbia could see massive losses if the province doesn’t start planning for flooding as ocean waters rise and storms ... -
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‘Baked-In’ Warming Will Push Temperature Rise Past 2°C, Adding Urgency to Net-Zero Push
Alongside the extreme weather events of 2020, new research that shows today’s atmospheric CO2 levels pushing average global warming beyond 2.0°C makes it that ... -
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Doig: For 1.2 Billion People, Decarbonization is a Matter of Survival
I have sat in many long Zoom calls this year discussing climate ambition. Never once have I thought these were life or death discussions ... -
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Call Off ‘War on Nature’, Guterres Urges, as WMO Puts Global Warming at 1.2°C
With the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warning that the Earth has warmed 1.2°C since the mid-1800s, and the high-stakes virtual climate summit that took ... -
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850,000 Trapped in Darkness as Cyclone Yasa Hits Fiji at 250 Kilometres Per Hour
More than 850,000 Fijians were trapped in inky darkness hunkered down against the ravages of Tropical Cyclone Yasa, which slammed ashore bearing average windspeeds ... -
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Scientists Plead for Action as Soaring Temperatures Show Arctic in Crisis
As temperatures soared across Canada’s Northwest Territories in early December, scientists from around the world were checking in and confirming an Arctic ecosystem in ... -
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Faster Carbon Cuts Will Show Results Within 20 Years, New Study Concludes
Greenhouse gas reductions that match up with a 1.5°C limit on average global warming would deliver “substantial near-term benefits” within 20 years, while reducing ... -
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Mass Migration Looms as Central America Reels from Hurricane Damage
As citizens battle to rebuild—again—after the destruction of November’s back-to-back Category 4 hurricanes in Central America, aid workers and political leaders are pleading for ... -
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‘No Vaccine for Climate Change’, Red Cross Warns, as Disasters Kill 410,000 in 10 Years
There’s “no vaccine for climate change” in a world that has seen more than 100 climate disasters since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, and ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsSevere Storms & FloodingSmall Island States
850,000 Trapped in Darkness as Cyclone Yasa Hits Fiji at 250 Kilometres Per Hour
More than 850,000 Fijians were trapped in inky darkness on Thursday, hunkered down against the ravages of Tropical Cyclone Yasa, which slammed ashore around ... -
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Ontario Guts Conservation Authorities, Risking ‘Irreversible Damage’ in Flood Zones
Overreaching, unnecessary, and downright dangerous is how Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities are describing a new provincial law that limits their power to protect an ... -
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Property Disclosure Laws Fall Behind as U.S. Flood Risk Rises
As flood risk grows in tandem with the climate crisis, absent or weak disclosure laws are putting the safety and financial well-being of millions ...
