Indonesia's annual haze will be limited this year by the pressure of hosting the Asian Games and a new approach to preventing forest fires, a senior official said. Indonesia has focused on prevention after a particularly bad outbreak in 2015 and has introduced new policies including training communities in fire prevention and setting up a Peatland Restoration Agency.
Stockholm Univ
A new study investigates how the strong cooling of the North Atlantic Ocean in response to a partial collapse of the AMOC current impacted the European climate around 12,000 years ago. The simulation suggests that if the Atlantic current slows as projected with climate change, Europe could experience even stronger summer heatwaves in the future.
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Low insurance coverage has persisted in the Asia Pacific region even though it has suffered nearly USD 1.3 trillion in losses over the last 50 years. The result is that individuals, businesses and governments are left to bear the staggering costs of natural calamities. With extreme weather events increasing as the region’s cities become more crowded, the gap could widen.
