With wildfire smoke affecting most of North America, what are the best ways to minimize the health impacts of air pollution under climate change? Here are answers to some key questions about the ongoing air quality problems. What is happening with ...
With a storm this intense, the main concern in areas recently burned by wildfires is high-intensity precipitation. Content continues belowWhen land burns, the surface can become impervious –almost hydrophobic. So, when that surface gets hit...
tornadoes and floods, and other natural disasters such as earthquakes and wildfires. Business leaders should assess their organization's exposure to such disasters, considering the geographic locations of its operations and the historical frequency of a given event. They can then invest in BCDR s...
The most significant decrease of relative humidity is found in the Amazon (−1.7%), particularly over the southeastern edge of the rainforests called the “Arc of Deforestation,” where extensive land cover/use changes are happening. Central North America and Mediterranean regions also display ...
Thankfully here in Michigan it's a hot one, but nothing we can't handle. But if you're watching the news or national weather, you may have heard the term 'heat dome' thrown around when they describe what is happening nationwide with our summer weather. ...
Climate change is happening. Why do we still act like it’s not? (fastcompany.com) Extreme rainfall increases exponentially with global warming: Study (phys.org) Opinion: We should listen to a renowned scientist’s warning on climate change – The Globe and Mail (ampproj...
If a wildfire is strong enough, it can create a thunderstorm. This is known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb,according to YaleEnvironment360. PyroCbs are happening more often and in new places. This is likely because the globe is getting hotter and creating stronger wildfires. This puts...
PyroCbs are happening more often and in new places. This is likely because the globe is getting hotter and creating stronger wildfires. This puts “more vigorous plumes of smoke, black carbon, and water vapor” into the air, said Mike Flannigan, director of the Canadian Partnership for ...
plants are viewed the same way as humans, and they think of what is happening to the Amazon today as genocide, not ecocide (Earther). The Amazon crisis is considered by many to be part of a broader war on indigenous people, especially since it’s believed thatillegal loggers and miners...
It’s the biggest challenge yet to autocratic President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s rule, with initial public anger over a spike in fuel prices expanding to wider discontent with the government over corruption, living standards, poverty and unemployment in the oil-rich, former Soviet nation, accordi...