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Tackling the environmental crisis can boost the economy says WEF report

Tackling the global nature crisis could create 400m jobs and $10tn in business value each year by 2030, according to a report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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Researchers create a contagion model to predict flooding in urban areas

Inspired by the modeling laws used to predict the spread of pandemics, researchers created a model to forecast the spread of floodwaters in urban road networks.
Texas A&M University Press
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Climate change and land use are accelerating soil erosion by water

Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly around the world over the next 50 years due to climate change and intensive land cultivation.
University of Basel
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COVID-19: How the lockdown has affected the health of the poor in South Africa

COVID-19 has wreaked substantial damage on human lives and the economy in South Africa. The pandemic has worsened the income inequalities that characterise the economy.
Conversation Media Group, the
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New research will improve early warning of devastating megastorms

Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) can predict the path of some megastorms and help protect communities from floods and major damage to infrastructure.
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
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Sea-Level Rise could make rivers more likely to jump course

River avulsions—catastrophic floods triggered when a river charts a new path to the sea—could occur more frequently on rivers as sea levels rise
California Institute of Technology
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Typhoons getting stronger, making landfall more often

New research shows a growing threat from Pacific storms amid climate change.
Eos - AGU
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Climate change projected to increase seasonal east African rainfall

New research shows that rainfall in East Africa will increase significantly as greenhouse gases increase.
University of Texas

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