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Urban Institute researchers recommend that federal aid focus more on long-term recovery efforts in order to counter this trend.
Hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents live in flood zones that can become inundated with storm water. But the state is trying to move some of them out of harm’s way in one of the biggest home buyout programs in the nation.
As climate change causes the poles to warm faster than the Tropics, the temperature gradient is also reducing. This reduction then limits the energy of the currents that steer cyclones, slowing them and weather systems down. Hurricane Florence was subsequently able to stall over North Carolina and unleash tremendous amounts of water because of this phenomenon.
Two straight months of heavy rainfall have effectively ended five straight years of drought in California. As a result of the unpredictable nature of California’s climate, state officials have begun to prepare for what they expect to be continued extreme weather conditions.
Kansas and Oklahoma policymakers are showing that insofar as humans causing earthquakes, they can stop them, too. After restricting oil and natural gas operations in certain hotspots, Oklahoma is feeling an average of about two earthquakes a day, down from about six last summer, and Kansas is feeling about a quarter of the tremors it once did.
'There needs to be more recognition from western science of the value of traditional ecological knowledge, so we need to look at how we can better inform the government of what tribal leaders bring to the table in regard to responding to climate change,' said Micah McCarty, who represented the Makah tribe at the First Stewards symposium...
'The damage from natural disasters is usually highly dependent on the level of development' and the Inter-American Development Bank's estimates that in Haiti 'the damage done to the country's economic sector, infrastructure, roads, and buildings' is very high, cites the PBS NewsHour report...
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