An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The world’s people face “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” unless there are major transformations to global society, according to a stark warning from more than 11,000 scientists. “We declare clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency,” it states. “To secure a sustainable future, we must change…
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151 Types of Flowers Common In The U.S. & Their Characteristics
Check out 151 Types of Flowers common in the US. This guide is great for picking and choosing your very own garden, or custom bouquet! Scroll through to find your perfect bloom. —This post is courtesy of Proflowers.com. (Original publish date January 18, 2016), Shared with permission— 151 Types of Flowers Common In The U.S. &…Continue Reading
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2.35 Million Lose Power In California As State Faces Extreme Weather and Wildfires
California’s largest power utility began power shut-offs today for an estimated 2.35 million people — expected to last two days — after weather forecasts predicted extreme fire danger due to exceptionally dry weather and severe winds, according to the Washington Post. “Some gusts this weekend might reach 75 mph (120 kph) or higher as part of a ‘historic’ wind event, the…
The last mammoths died on a remote island
A new study suggests that about 4,000 years ago, a combination of Isolation, extreme weather, and the arrival of humans on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean killed off Earth’s last population of mammoths. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/last-wooly-mammoths-died-on-remote-island…
Extreme Weather Events This Decade Have Cost America $750B
An anonymous reader quotes NBC News: An analysis of weather disasters that did more than $1 billion in damage from the National Centers for Environmental Information finds that such high-cost events are up markedly since the 1980s. (The dollar figures for the events were adjusted for inflation.) There have been 250 such events since 1980 and almost half them, 111, have…
The world’s ageing dams are not built for ever more extreme weather
A town in the UK has been evacuated after extreme rains eroded a dam’s spillway. It is just one of many ageing dams worldwide not designed for increasingly extreme weather Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2212427-the-worlds-ageing-dams-are-not-built-for-ever-more-extreme-weather/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Physicist studying how extreme weather in space affects satellites
A physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing a new scale to measure weather storms in space that could lead to a better understanding of how those storms impact Earth. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-physicist-extreme-weather-space-affects.html…