Severe Storms & Flooding
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Trudeau Warns of More Climate-Driven Floods, as Researcher Suggests Rethinking Quebec’s Relationship with Water
In the wake of massive spring flooding in Quebec, New Brunswick, and parts of Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is warning of more of ... -
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Central Bank Execs Stress Financial Sector’s Role in Addressing Climate Change
It’s time for central banks and the wider financial community to set clear, measurable goals for building a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy, ... -
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Planners Look for U.S. ‘Climate Havens’ to Receive Millions of Internal Migrants by 2100
Urban planners are looking to cities like Duluth, Minnesota, Buffalo, Cincinnati, and Portland, Oregon as future refuges for climate migrants displaced within the United ... -
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Canada Rewrites Building Code to Avert $300 Billion in Climate-Driven Losses
Canada’s National Building Code is undergoing a major rewrite in a bid to avert C$300 billion in climate change-driven infrastructure failures over the next ... -
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70% of Nova Scotia Dikes Need Redesign to Address Coastal Erosion, Rising Seas
With its oldest sections dating back to the Acadian settlements of the 1700s, the 241-kilometre dike system which today protects Nova Scotia’s maritime lowlands ... -
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Meili: Saskatchewan Wants Climate Action, Not ‘All-or-Nothing Political Games’
Saskatchewan will be asking the wrong question on climate change until it looks beyond the carbon price debate and considers how to build a ... -
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Midwestern U.S. Loses Hundreds of Miles of Levees After ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Flooding
Severe flooding across midwestern U.S. states like Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri has taken out hundreds of miles of levees, leaving officials to compare the ... -
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WEBINAR SUMMARY: Connect Climate Crisis to Peoples’ Daily Lives, Pike Urges
At a time when public opinion on climate change is shifting in some “pretty positive ways”, climate communicators’ goal should be to make the ...
