Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Linking climate change to disastrous weather events like droughts, hurricanes, or floods is always tricky: Terrible storms happened before people started mucking with the global thermostat, and they’ll continue even if countries start to get their emissions under control. So Strauss and his co-authors took a different tack.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

From the unprecedented poor air quality that we experienced last summer to the basement floodings that our residents on the West Side experienced, the consequences of this crisis are severe, as are the costs of surviving them. “There is no justice without accountability,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson in a statement.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

coast, footage of the storm's devastation flooded the internet alongside calls for governments and the news media to recognize the here-and-now destruction of the climate emergency. Tags: hurricanes and global warming extreme weather Caribbean green new deal

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Consequently providing flood protection and safe eel passage is a particular challenge. Here, I and the REDEEM project team briefly describe some of the key questions our research is trying to answer for the flood and water level management sector. Of the acoustic tagged eels, 80.8% What fish live upstream of pumping stations?

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Grist

MAY 18, 2023

Those impacts come with a surprisingly steep price tag, according to the study, which was published in Science on Thursday. By the end of the century, El Niño cycles may spur a whopping $84 trillion in economic losses. “El El Niño is more costly than we realized,” Christopher W.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Using the Philippines as an example of areas that are prone to natural disasters , the team’s design strategy was to create something that could withstand even the most extreme weather emergencies, from floods and superstorms to typhoons and earthquakes. The structure was inspired by the traditional Filipino Bahay-kubo houses.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Our research shows that health-related costs added at least another 26 percent to the national price tag for 2012 severe weather-related damages.” The research team exhorts that unchecked climate-related events will economically burden communities, especially unprepared ones.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2022

The UK and US research team behind the report analysed a range of previous studies to come up with their estimates, taking into consideration nine physical climate impact areas, including agriculture, livestock and fisheries, drought, flooding, and coastal damage. per cent of national GDP, the researchers calculated.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfeld. The survey gathered information about how the livestock and poultry industry is already innovating to reduce its environmental impacts, primarily by chasing higher productivity and lower costs in an increasingly challenging market.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

As such, farmers are starting to address sustainability issues "almost as a tag-along", according to Dierenfield. The report also warned there were significant obstacles to the adoption of more sustainable practices.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2019

This benefits a wide range of wildlife, landscape enhancement and other ecosystem services including flood and water management. CEMEX, RSPB, BTO and Jamie Dunnings’ Twite Google Group – Dove Holes Quarry, Dove Holes, Buxton, Derbyshire -Radio tagging twite. The full list of winners are as shown below.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. And looking at what is happening in this country - the changes that are taking place - that is why private sector investor is flooding in; more venture capital investment than China itself.". A new nuclear reactor every year.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

became a summertime flood zone, even before an annual hurricane season so bad that the government is running out of names to attach to them, even before Colorado saw a 100°F heatwave swan dive into a 12? It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 Even before the western United States became a regional inferno, even before the Midwest U.S.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

became a summertime flood zone, even before an annual hurricane season so bad that the government is running out of names to attach to them, even before Colorado saw a 100°F heatwave swan dive into a 12? It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 Even before the western United States became a regional inferno, even before the Midwest U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There have been repeated warnings about the UK's vulnerability to flooding - now the PM must put climate resilience at the centre of his 'leveling-up' agenda. Coastal, surface or river flooding is now estimated to cause more than £1bn worth of damage a year in the UK.

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2021

As ever, the CCC's assessment of the potential costs of net zero offers a powerful tonic to the loud minority of political and media commentators who have taken to bemoaning the price tags attached to the projects that can help avoid catastrophic climate impacts. We could have more and healthier woodlands.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

If they can close deals like that based on actual costs, just imagine what could be done with 30 percent chopped off the price tag. All prior efforts have failed, but batteries have never been more competitive, nor have they been able to show such buy-in from red states and blue states across the nation.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It’s a target climate scientists have found could save millions of lives from worsening climate-related disasters like floods and extreme heat. That’s a hefty price tag for a renter if you’re comparing it to a window AC unit, and the new unit isn’t likely to be cheaper.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

The majority of Denbury’s revenue comes from EOR, which involves injecting CO2 into the ground in order to extend the life of oil fields, and ~60% of the price tag likely covered the value of Denbury’s oil production rather than the CCS infrastructure.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We are experiencing the impacts of climate change, whether that’s drought, whether that’s heat waves, whether that’s a fire, a flood, a massive storm or an agriculture base collapsing. There are just two things. One is that climate change is here. That level of disruption and that level of disasters comes with a lot of trauma.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 11, 2020

Tags: RISE St. But if you ask Sharon Lavigne, founder of RISE St. James, a Louisiana community group, what House Bill 197 means to her, the answer that comes back isn’t about floodgates or water pumps or pipelines. It’s about the legacy of slavery in the United States — and how that legacy echoes in criminalization efforts today.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Tags: American Petroleum Institute fracking wastewater radioactivity radioactive fracking waste naturally occurring radioactive materials Marcellus shale

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Forest fires , floods and hurricanes are all rising in their frequency and severity. Tags: Nationalism climate science denial extreme weather climate change Donald Trump One has been the escalating effects of climate change, which were the focus of the United Nations’ Climate Action Summit. could disappear entirely by the 2040s.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 28, 2020

But the report appears to have left out any reference to, much less a plan for, climate accountability — that is, holding polluters accountable for the harms they are knowingly causing in communities across the country facing extreme heat, devastating wildfires, and disastrous flooding and storms.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

The project was funded by Sergei Brin, one of the founders of Google, and came with a price tag of 250.000 euros for a single burger. The burger consisted almost exclusively of white muscle cells, making it fairly dry. At the moment however, a lab-grown hamburger costs only about 9 euros (!). The same might hold true for the eating of meat.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2020

Meanwhile, a local solar company in Iowa has seen "huge uptick in demand," said Amicus' Irvin, likely tied to flooding and power outages in the Midwest. The price tag is still top of mind for many solar installers when it comes to selling storage. The average U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. But while an extraordinary amount of both oil and gas unleashed by fracking flooded U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S., For about the last dozen years, natural gas prices in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Delaware, the home state of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, announced on Thursday , September 10 that it is taking dozens of major oil and gas companies including BP , Chevron, and ExxonMobil to court over the rising costs of climate impacts such as sea level rise and coastal flooding. Like other U.S.

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