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USA: $24 billion national flood insurance program debt explained in one chart

Extreme precipitation is increasing with climate change, which creates a flood insurance dilemma for American states and residents living in at-risk areas.
California WaterBlog
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"Hold the door": USF geoscientists discover mechanisms controlling Greenland ice sheet collapse

New research has uncovered a process that can control the “calving” of glaciers – when large chunks of glacier ice collapse into the sea, forming icebergs.
University of South Florida
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Sustainable land management key to reducing Amazon wildfires, study shows

A new study finds that continued deforestation in the Amazon region could expand the areas at risk of wildfires by more than 70% until 2100.
University of Exeter
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Sea level rise: West Antarctic ice collapse may be prevented by snowing ocean water onto it

New research suggests that covering West Antarctica's ice sheet with trillions of tons of snow could prevent global long-term sea level rise.
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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Dangerous heat to soar across entire US "breaking" National Weather Service heat index scale, posing unprecedented health risks

The frequency of "feels like" temperatures that break the heat index scale in the USA will increase more than four-fold by late century.
Union of Concerned Scientists
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Twitter ‘fingerprint’ helps decode how individuals respond to crises

A new tool uses tweets shared during crises to create a "fingerprint" that allows policymakers to better quantify a community's thoughts about an issue.
Purdue University
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Americans focus on responding to earthquake damage, not preventing it, because they’re unaware of their risk

In the U.S., even in areas where earthquakes are relatively common, risk reduction policies are unpopular because the public underestimates the risks they face.
Conversation Media Group, the
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USA: Virginia Tech researchers: Wastewater injected deep underground sinks, inducing stronger earthquakes

New research finds that oilfield wastewater disposal destabilises faults and leads to higher magnitude 'injection-induced' earthquakes.
Virginia Tech
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Climate change lawsuits expand to at least 28 countries around the world

A new report shows that climate change litigation against governments and corporations is increasingly spreading around the world.
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
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Study bolsters case that climate change is driving many California wildfires

A new study finds that climate change is the decisive driver in many of California's wild fires.
Columbia University
American Geophysical Union

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