CNN — People are moving en masse to places at high risk of climate disasters, despite the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in recent years, researchers say. A study released Thursday by researchers at the University of Vermont found that over the past decade, Americans have moved away from areas prone to …
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The ingredients line up for parts of Florida to be active for wildfires in 2023, despite two hurricanes making landfall in 2022 bringing torrential rains. The recently released outlook from the National Interagency Fire Center shows the likelihood of above-normal wildfire potential developing in the new year along the Interstate 10 corridor and includes the …
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Drought is one of the “most destructive” natural disasters in terms of loss of life, resulting from impacts such as large-scale crop failures, forest fires and water stress. In other words, droughts are one of the “world’s most feared natural phenomena”; they devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering, as reported by the world’s …
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BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, NJ — Up to 2.4 million trees would be felled as part of a project to prevent major wildfires in a federally protected New Jersey forest heralded as a unique environmental treasure. New Jersey environment officials say the plan to kill trees in a section of Bass River State Forest is designed …
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2022 has brought the climate crisis back to Europeans like no other year. It may be a ‘spyglass’ in the new normal, according to researchers behind a new study showing that the fire season has reached a record “burnt area” in parts of southwestern Europe. The continent has also suffered probably the worst drought in …
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Newswise – Warming during the summer months in Europe has been much faster than the global average, shows a new study by researchers at Stockholm University published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. Due to human emissions of greenhouse gases, the climate across the continent has also become drier, particularly in southern Europe, leading …
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Newswise – Warming during the summer months in Europe has been much faster than the global average, shows a new study by researchers at Stockholm University published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. Due to human emissions of greenhouse gases, the climate across the continent has also become drier, particularly in southern Europe, leading …
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CNN — Nuclear power in California received financial support from the Biden administration on Monday as the U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $1.1 billion grant to Pacific Gas & Electric to help extend life from its Diablo Canyon power plant on California’s central coast. The Diablo plant was to be decommissioned in two phases, …
