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With funding from National Science Foundation, researchers are studying impacts of heat and cold in Tempe and Buffalo
By David J. Hill
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A scorching heat wave in the Phoenix area killed more than 100 people in the summer of 2016 as temperatures soared to near 120 degrees.
Over three days in November 2014, a massive snowstorm — dubb…
Scientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) have linked the frequency of extreme winter weather in the United States to Arctic temperatures.
Their research was published today in Nature Communications.
"Basically, this confirms the story I've been telling for a couple of years now," said study…
Large swathes of North America have been gripped by cold and heavy snowfall, causing loss of life, major traffic chaos and power outages for millions of people.
The prolonged freeze, which saw many new record cold maximum and minimum temperatures, was caused by an Arctic blast of air moving down from Canada all the way into Texas.
More than 100 millio…
BONN, 17 October 2017 – The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mr. Robert Glasser, today announced that next year will see the start of worldwide monitoring of disaster losses from extreme weather events and earthquakes through the Bonn office of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).
Speaking at the…
PANAMA CITY, November 27, 2015 - The Americas are paying a high price as one of the worst El Niños on record continues to strengthen. The World Meteorological Organization this week singled out “considerable concern” about the impact of El Niño on the Amazon basin in the context of long-term climate change.
In a year which is also expected to be declar…
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Since that heat wave in 1995, climate change has intensified globally with wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and cold spells leading to famine and drought. As a result of these extreme changes, the medical community is noticing an increasing rate of heart disease.
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Particulate matter, tiny particles in the air invisible…
Big waves have doubled since 1950s, possibly due to shifting climate.Winter is coming—eventually. And while the earth is warming, a new study suggests that the atmosphere is being pushed around in ways that cause long bouts of extreme winter cold or wet in some regions.The study’s authors say they have identified giant meanders in the global jet stream…
GENEVA, 2 May 2012 - This Saturday, from drought-stricken Mongolia to Himalayan communities threatened by glacial melt, Climatedots.org will bring people together to hold rallies and remind everyone of the extreme weather events that are happening in their communities because of climate change.
A click on Climatedots.org takes any interested visitor to…
30 September 2013, GENEVA – Based on current disaster trends and economic values, the world is looking at a minimum cost in the region of 25 trillion dollars in disaster losses for the 21st century if there is no concerted response to climate change, one which puts the emphasis on practical measures to reduce disaster risk and exposure to future extreme…
Spatio-temporal mapping of climatic and biological disaster outbreak in India has been undertaken using historical data and scientific tools to explore options to support for relief, recovery, resilience, and adaptation through integration with existing development programmes. Floods, Droughts, Cyclones, Heat Waves and Cold Waves, Dengue,…
The topics of PACC-2011 will include: assessment of climate change impacts on sustainable development, vulnerability, risks, losses and benefits, capacity for adaptation to the current and anticipated climate change, large-scale weather anomalies and their consequences, including development of observation systems and early warning systems, and identify…
Climate change will cause stresses and uncertainties that will pose challenges to urban living, affecting the society and basic urban services. Managing urban areas has become one of the most important development challenges of this century. What can be done to protect people from disasters and to make Lisbon more resilient to disasters? To remind this…
4-8 inches of snow was forecast for the nation’s capital when the snow ended 18.7” was recorded at DCA with a large area of 20” or more blanketing the eastern suburbs of Washington, DC and eastern Maryland. The impact was paralysis. The rapid intensification, excessive snow rates, and snowfall totals of the 1979 President’s Day Snowstorm exposed the lim…
This paper analyses what different urban actors (citizens; politicians; urban planners and designers; and urban climate experts) who shape the urban environment and thus its climate, know about urban climate adaptation measures. Thereby, this study is concerned with the levels of awareness about urban climate adaptation, using semi-structured interviews…
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2008 Among the ten warmest years; marked by weather extremes and second-lowest level of arctic ice cover
The year 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year on record since the beginning of the instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled b…