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By Marshall Shepherd via Forbes
Hurricane Helene did what a Category 4 storm does. It caused destruction through extreme winds, storm surge, rainfall, and tornadoes. The sheer size of the storm also extended those impacts across many states.
FCI Co-Director, Sadie Ryan, contributes to this important piece.
Some researchers have described this as a steady move to "a warmer, sicker world". But to understand why this is happening, we need to understand a little more about the biology of mosquitoes and their life cycles.
A new interagency resource on U.S. sea level change, SeaLevel.GlobalChange.gov, is now available to the public. This platform represents the first whole-of-government resource for coastal residents and decision-makers on sea level rise projections, associated impacts, and adaptation measures.
This site pairs a dynamic delivery of the latest research on sea level change with foundational educational content on how and why sea level rise is happening, its impacts, and actions that can be taken to address the challenges coastal communities face from rising seas.
Explore more and register for webinar at https://sealevel.globalchange.gov/
The USGCRP also released a new federal interagency resource to support people in teaching, communicating, and making decisions about climate change. Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change presents information that is important for individuals and communities to understand about Earth’s climate, impacts of climate change, and solutions.
An increase in extreme heat and severe droughts lops off about 0.2% of a country’s GDP, a new study found.
Severe weather costs the global economy billions of dollars a year, highlighting the costs of climate change and the value of mitigating extreme weather, according to a new analysis of weather and economic data.
“This research gives guidance to policymakers to consider what kind of extreme events we should adapt to,” said Berkay Akyapi, Ph.D., co-author of the new study and a professor of business at the University of Florida. “If we don’t do anything to respond to these climate shocks, we are hurting the economy.”
By A.R Siders
U.S. towns are building new housing and infrastructure in their floodplains – but not as much as expected, and the tools to stop it may be more routine than we imagined.
Those are the key takeaways from two new papers: one in Oxford Open Climate Change OUP Academic (Siders et al.) today and one in Earth’s Future last week (Agopian et al). The findings could change how advocates, floodplain managers, and a new administration, think about policy reforms for flood risk management.
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