By Bob Henson 3 October 2018 (Weather Underground) – The remnants of former Hurricane Rosa made their presence felt across far northwest Mexico and the Southwest U.S. on Tuesday. Phoenix picked up 2.36”, which makes Tuesday the wettest October day in the city’s 123 years of weather records (beating 2.32” from October 14, 1998). Tuesday […]
By Linda Lam 28 September 2018 (The Weather Channel) – Hurricane Rosa rapidly intensified in the eastern Pacific, but its greatest impact will likely be as a weak tropical storm or depression bringing a threat of flash flooding to the southwestern United States early next week. Rosa became a hurricane Wednesday morning in the eastern […]
25 September 2018 (UN News) – If there was one issue that was a recurrent theme on Tuesday on the first day of the United Nations General Assembly‘s annual general debate, it was the potentially catastrophic impact of climate change , from Secretary-General António Guterres’s opening address warning global Heads of State and Government that […]
By Jenni Fink 31 August 2018 (Newsweek) – On Thursday, Mexican authorities declared a health emergency for the beach town of Acapulco because of large quantities of uncollected garbage that have piled up. Carlos de la Peña, the health secretary of the state of Guerrero, located on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, told the Associated Press that […]
By Jose Cortes, Ana Isabel Martinez, and Julia Love; Editing by Sandra Maler 28 August 2018 SANTA MARIA COLOTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) – About 300 endangered sea turtles were found dead off the southern coast of Mexico on Tuesday, trapped in fishing nets, shortly after more than 100 dead turtles were recovered.Fishermen in the southern state […]
By Jonathan Erdman 23 August 2018 (The Weather Channel) – A year ago Hurricane Harvey rewrote the U.S. rainfall record books after a catastrophic strike and then an agonizing crawl for days along the Gulf Coast.”Harvey was the most significant tropical cyclone rainfall event in United States history, both in scope and peak rainfall amounts, […]
By Hayley Krischer 20 August 2018 (Marie Claire) – Donna* is from the suburbs. She says so proudly. A really nice town not far from Philadelphia. Donna grew up in a nice middle-class family. She wrote poetry. She had shoulder-length blonde hair and a job at the board of social services. Today Donna is in […]
WASHINGTON, 19 March 2018 (World Bank) – The worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see over 140 million people move within their countries’ borders by 2050, creating a looming human crisis and threatening the development process, a new World Bank Group report finds But with concerted action […]
24 July 2018 (Global Witness) – Global Witness today reveals that at least 207 land and environmental defenders were killed last year – indigenous leaders, community activists and environmentalists murdered trying to protect their homes and communities from mining, agribusiness and other destructive industries.Severe limits on the data available mean the global total is probably […]
By Oscar Lopez and Andrew Jacobs 14 July 2018 SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (The New York Times) – Maria del Carmen Abadía lives in one of Mexico’s rainiest regions, but she has running water only once every two days. When it does trickle from her tap, the water is so heavily chlorinated, she […]
