Heat waves, droughts cause billions of dollars in global economic losses
An increase in extreme heat and severe droughts lops off about 0.2% of a country’s GDP, a new study found.
Tag: climate disasters
Video: Why do floods happen?
This bite-sized video describes different types of flooding and the damage that flooding can cause.
How back-to-back hurricanes set off a year of compounding disasters for one city − and alarm bells about risks in a warming world
Climate change will bring new weather patterns that are beyond emergency managers’ current playbooks.
Debby showed how climate change is reshaping our understanding of storm severity
Old assumptions about the intensity and damage potential of hurricanes and tropical storms no longer hold water.
Video: What is gray-green infrastructure?
This bite-sized video explains the benefits of combining natural and constructed systems in gray-green infrastructure.
Study: Climate disasters increase support for climate migrants, belief in climate change, but only for short time
Princeton University researchers measured attitudes toward climate change before, during and after Hurricane Ian.
To beat the heat, we need climate action
We need to demand the kind of big, systemic changes that are our only hope to slow the pace of ...
Three practical ways to address climate anxiety
Younger people and children in particular are bearing the emotional burden of climate change.
Debt-disaster-debt: Hurricane-damaged islands are being saddled with loans they cannot afford
Hurricane Beryl is a disturbing harbinger of what is to come as global sea-surface temperatures keep rising.
To insure or self-insure? The question homeowners must answer amid impact of climate change
More than 6 million US homeowners don’t have homeowners insurance, according to the Consumer Federation of America.
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