Floridians are saving money this hurricane season as House Bill 7063 comes into effect. The recently signed bill implements tax-free holidays for disaster-planning items, encouraging people to buy qualifying items.
The official 2023 hurricane season forecasts were just released, and while the Atlantic may see an average storm season this year, a busier-than-normal season is forecast in the eastern Pacific, meaning heightened risks for Mexico and Hawaii.
One month after Cyclone Freddy made landfall for a second time in Mozambique, creating severe disruption to critical services and destroying hard-won development gains, locally led climate action is delivering encouraging results.
In this study, a series of numerical analyses of meteorology, runoff, river flow, and inundation were performed to quantitatively evaluate the effects of historical warming on precipitation, discharge, water level, and flood inundation.
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
This study presents and utilizes an integrated semiempirical methodology to estimate a sea–land transition wind profile inside the TCBL that considers the impacts of climate change.
Investors in commercial real estate are rethinking the values of coastal properties exposed to flood risk — even in northern U.S. locales that haven’t suffered flood damage, according to researchers.
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of tropical storms on international trade for 8 Eastern Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) over the period 2000–2019.
Economics of Disasters and Climate Change (Springer)
From the 12th to the 14th of February 2023, northern and eastern regions of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Te Ika-a-Māui (North Island) were hit by extremely heavy rainfall associated with the passage of ex-tropical cyclone Gabrielle.
Timor-Leste has just reached new milestones towards the United Nations (UN) Sendai Framework and SDGs, completing the final phases of an early warning capacity enhancement project in partnership with the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global).
