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Extreme heat is a public health crisis that disproportionately affects low-income communities, minorities and seniors, labor advocates say.
With at least 65 percent of the public water supply in the western U.S. coming from fire-prone areas, blazes can expose the drinking water for millions of people to toxic chemicals and parasites. Amid expert concern, officials are launching more intensive water testing programmes and utility companies are investing in wildfire mitigation.
Investigators find that PG&E’s electrical lines or other equipment caused twelve of the blazes in last year's North Bay fires. While shutting off the power lines effectively mitigates fire risk, PG&E, a gas and power company, warns that it can create other public safety hazards by limiting first responders and the operation of critical facilities and services.
Hot summers are becoming a regular occurrence, but climate change could soon push an environment that is unsustainable for countries along the Arab Gulf and in North Africa, with temperatures exceeding the threshold for human survival. Climate change has also yielded increases in sea level and saltwater intrusion, affecting livelihoods.
Because attribution research has revealed a clearer link between humanity's role in heating the Earth and extreme weather events, there is a developing consensus that scientists can be more precise and forceful in connecting some extreme weather events.
Companies are increasingly realizing that they need to have proactive plans for dealing with natural and man-made disasters, and not just react to them — or worse, assume that extreme events 'won't happen to us.' The Wharton Risk Center asked chief risk officers and executives from 100 S&P 500 companies about their risk strategies...
As over 50 large fires are burning only this week, the expenses of extinguishing fires keep getting higher, and funds from fire risk reduction programs are being diverted to meet the ever rising costs, reports CNBC...
'The grant is a huge contribution to moving forward the science of earthquake early warning systems,' said Thomas Heaton, director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory...
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