Tag: Flooding
Study shows federal weather model underplays flooding, putting infrastructure spending at risk
First Street Foundation’s research identified the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlas 14 model as failing to keep up with the ris [...]
Climate reparations ethical but not best fix: Climatologist
Displaced people in floodwater after heavy monsoon rain at Usta Mohammad city, in the Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province, on Sept. 18, 2022. [...]
How to protect your finances from natural disasters like Hurricane Ian
Tap emergency resourcesReach out to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Assistance Improvement Program and the American Red Cross, as we [...]
Why Puerto Rico has no electricity and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Fiona
Puerto Rico is currently experiencing “life-threatening and catastrophic flooding” after Hurricane Fiona made landfall on the island this weekend a [...]
The flooding in Pakistan is a climate catastrophe with political roots
Flash floods over the weekend left one-third of Pakistan submerged from weeks of heavy rains, compounding an already difficult set of political and [...]
Climate change is making some homes too costly to insure
Firefighters pull up to a burning house during the Kincade fire in Healdsburg, California, on Oct. 27, 2019.Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty ImagesAs climat [...]
Kentucky governor: Death toll from flooding rises to 25
Rescue crews continue the struggle to get into hard-hit areas, some of them among the poorest places in America. Crews have made more than 1,200 resc [...]
Number of rainy days and intense rainfall can affect economy: Study
A man walks through the floods towards destroyed houses in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr, western Germany, on July 15, 2021.Bernd Lauter | AFP | Getty Imag [...]
Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe’s Ancestral Home
For decades, chronic flooding and nuclear waste have encroached on the ancestral lands in southeastern Minnesota that the Prairie Island Indian Com [...]
AUD/USD Rises Despite Wall Street Selloff as Chinese Flooding Lifts Coal Prices
Australian Dollar, AUD/USD, China, Coal, Crude Oil, BOK – Talking PointsAustralian Dollar rises overnight versus USD despite Wall Street stocks cl [...]
Homeowners relocating because of climate change, wildfires, flooding
Christy Gentry and her husband have been dealing with California's wildfires for the past four years. In 2017, the couple evacuated their Santa Ros [...]
‘Politicians are fallacious’ in charge forecasters for inaccurate predictions of Ida’s threats: ex-meteorologist
Gary Szatkowski, who was a prime federal forecaster in New Jersey throughout Hurricane Sandy, known as out New York politicians for suggesting that [...]
Excessive climate ‘only a small preview of what’s going to occur,’ warns local weather scientist
The intense climate throughout the U.S., from the devastating Caldor Hearth scorching the West Coast to the lethal flooding and tornadoes slamming [...]
Britain’s economic system is already seeing a fast shift resulting from local weather change
A winery in Surrey, EnglandLemanieh | iStock | Getty PhotosLocal weather change may spark main shifts in British produce within the coming a long t [...]
Henri heads Northeast as thousands and thousands gird for winds, flooding
The storm had most sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph) in an eight a.m. EDT replace from the U.S. Nationwide Hurricane Middle, simply shy of hurri [...]