By Huu Nguyen and Hung Phong 26 December 2017 (VN Express) – Typhoon Tembin, the sixteenth tropical storm raging Vietnamese waters this year, weakened into a tropical depression as it entered the southern sea on Tuesday morning. Tembin approached the coastline of the southernmost provinces Ca Mau and Bac Lieu at 1 a.m., as winds […]
By Kathryn Hansen 19 December 2017 (NASA) – In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. Just weeks later, the berg named B-44 shattered into more than 20 fragments.On 15 December 2017, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on […]
By Christopher Flavelle 22 December 2017 (Bloomberg News) – Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable a coastal area larger than Delaware. A draft of the plan, the most aggressive response to climate-linked flooding in the U.S., calls for prohibitions […]
By Mi Nguyen and Manuel Mogato; Editing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Robert Birsel 25 December 2017 HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) – Authorities in Vietnam prepared to move a million people from low-lying areas along the south coast on Monday as a typhoon approached after it battered the Philippines with floods and landslides that killed more than […]
21 December 2017 (Columbia University) – New research predicts that migrants applying for asylum in the European Union will nearly triple over the average of the last 15 years by 2100 if carbon emissions continue on their current path. The study suggests that cutting emissions could partially stem the tide, but even under an optimistic […]
By Phil McCausland 21 December 2017 (NBC News) – In a moving plea for help from the state and federal government, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner was joined at a Thursday press conference by three of his constituents who remain displaced by Hurricane Harvey nearly four months after the storm made landfall. “Literally, there are thousands […]
By Caitlin Dickson 22 December 2017 (Yahoo News) – Christmas marked 96 days since Jesse Vazquez’s house on Calle Alameda in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, lost power in Hurricane Maria.The small generator his children brought him from New York back in October, when Yahoo News accompanied them on their journey, has since been supplemented with a […]
By Bill Weir; editing by Rachel Clarke 20 December 2017 (CNN) – “We need help.” I’ve heard those three words repeated in the mountains of Puerto Rico, amid the wreckage of Big Pine Key and from the mayor who thinks his Texas town may die. I’ve heard them spat in anger and mumbled in resignation […]
By Javier Panzar and Michael Livingston 22 December 2017 VENTURA (Los Angeles Times) – The Thomas fire on Friday became California’s largest wildfire on record, burning 273,400 acres during its destructive march across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. The fire eclipsed the 2003 Cedar fire in San Diego County, which burned 273,246 acres. The milestone […]
By Jie Jenny Zou 14 December 2017 (The Guardian) – On sunny days, when his classmates run out to play, Gabriel Rosales heads to the school nurse for a dose of Albuterol. The fine mist opens his airways, relaxing the muscles in his chest. Without it, recess could leave the nine-year-old gasping for breath. He […]
