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Climate Change Is Already Costing Us Billions of Dollars Every Year
Posted by Motherboard: None Given on October 25th, 2015
Motherboard: Climate change has already begun to cost us, and it’s only going to get worse. Hurricanes, intensified in size and frequency by climate change, are taking a massive financial toll already, according to a new paper. The study, published in Nature Geoscience this week, found that an increase in property dollar amounts lost over the past several decades in a case study was due to hurricanes intensified by global warming. Conducted by researchers from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma in Mexico and...
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Is freshwater supply more dependent on good governance than geography?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2015
ScienceDaily: Scientists have analysed 19 different characteristics critical to water supply management in 119 low per capita income countries and found that vulnerability is pervasive and commonly arises from relatively weak institutional controls. The study, conducted by researchers based at Washington State University (WSU), USA, and Stanford University, USA, sought to identify freshwater supply vulnerabilities using four broad categories; endowment (availability of source water), demand, infrastructure and...
Scientists urge policymakers plant trees save Britain rivers from climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2015
ScienceDaily: New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.
Published in the international journal Global Change Biology, experts from Cardiff University describe having discovered a previously unknown benefit of trees to the resilience of river ecosystems.
Britain's 242,334 miles of running waters are among the most sensitive of all habitats to climate change,...
Houston braces for floods as Texas deluged by rain in Patricia’s wake
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 25th, 2015
Reuters: Heavy rains fueled by the meeting of two storm systems, one the remnants of Hurricane Patricia, pounded southeastern Texas, triggering flash floods and derailing a freight train as the heavy weather descended upon Houston early on Sunday. The National Weather Service predicted 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 cm) of rain for coastal areas, including southwest Louisiana, by Monday morning, exacerbated by tides up to five feet (1.5 meter) and wind gusts up to 35 mph. The rain systems were intensified by...
Mayday: Gulf of Maine in Destress
Posted by Portland Press Herald: Colin Woodard on October 25th, 2015
Portland Press Herald: Sandwiched on a narrow sandbar between Yarmouth’s harbor and the open Gulf of Maine, the fishermen of Yarmouth Bar have long struggled to keep the sea at bay.
Nineteenth-century storms threatened to sweep the whole place away, leaving Yarmouth proper’s harbor more open to the elements, prompting the province to build a granite cribwork across the quarter-mile bar, behind which the hamlet’s fishing fleet docks. Global warming has brought rising seas, a two-story-high rock wall to fight them and...