climate change
Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea level
Science
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation ...
UN official highlights how better preparation has shrunk disaster deaths despite worsening climate
Science
As climate change makes disasters such as cyclones, floods and droughts more intense, more frequent and striking more places, fewer people are ...
Vermont becomes first state to mandate that fossil fuel companies pay for climate damages
U.S.
A new law in Vermont — the first of its kind in the U.S. — will require fossil fuel companies to pay ...
The Largest Ice Shelf in Antarctica Is Behaving Oddly
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By Washington University in St. Louis May 25, 2024 Research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals that the Ross Ice Shelf ...
This 3.6-million-year-old footprint was made by our earliest known ancestor. Now it’s at risk of being lost forever
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Climate change and rapid urbanization worsened the impact of East African rains, scientists say
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a ...
Graduating seniors seek degrees in climate change and more US universities deliver
Science
At 16, Katya Kondragunta has already lived through two disasters amped by climate change. First came wildfires in California in 2020. Ash ...
Satellites Reveal “Vigorous Melting” Beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
Science
A team led by glaciologists at UC Irvine used satellite radar data to reconstruct the impact of warm ocean water surging in ...
Resigned to a fate of constant displacement, India’s river islanders return home in between floods
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MORIGAON, India (AP) — Yaad Ali is dreading the rainy season’s arrival this year. The 56-year-old farmer from northeastern India’s Assam state ...
Experts weigh in after death on Singapore Airlines flight
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One passenger died and 30 others were injured aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that was hit by “severe turbulence,” officials said Tuesday, ...
