‘Unbelievable destruction’ reported in Cyclone Pam’s wake – UNICEF tweets ‘Initial reports of devastation’

13 March 2015 (CNN) – Relief workers reported “unbelievable destruction” after Tropical Cyclone Pam smashed the capital of Vanuatu, the Australian Red Cross said Saturday. The Australian Red Cross said via Twitter that “humanitarian needs will be enormous. Many people have lost their homes. Shelter, food and water (are) urgent priorities” in Port Vila. Meteorologists […]

Category 5 Cyclone Pam slams Vanuatu capital – ‘Strength of winds is incredible’ in ‘Vanuatu Monster’

By Brandon Miller, Madison Park, and Laura Smith-Spark13 March 2015 (CNN) – Tropical Cyclone Pam, one of the strongest storms seen in the South Pacific in years, has made a direct hit on the capital of Vanuatu, Port Vila. Satellite imagery shows the eye of the massive Category 5 storm making landfall on a small […]

Researchers: Climate change affecting Hawaii Island storms – 20-year storms now happening every three to five years

HONOLULU, 8 February 2015 (AP) –  Hawaii island is seeing more frequent heavy storms, and climate change may be the reason, according to two University of Hawaii researchers. Ying Chen, a UH-Manoa graduate student at the time of the study, and Pao-Shin Chu, professor of atmospheric sciences at UH-Manoa, in a paper published in the […]

Graph of the Day: Progress toward Millennial Development Goals and World Food Summit targets for global food insecurity, 1990-2014

(FAO) – The latest estimates indicate that 805 million people – about one in nine of the world’s population – were chronically undernourished in 2012–14, with insufficient food for an active and healthy life. This number represents a decline of more than 100 million people over the last decade and of 209 million since 1990–92. […]

Afghanistan and several nations from sub-Saharan Africa least prepared for global warming

By William G. Gilroy5 November 2014 (Notre Dame News) – Norway is the best prepared country for climate change, and has been so for almost 20 years, according to data released Wednesday (Nov. 5) by the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN). ND-GAIN is the world’s leading annual index that ranks more than […]

Nitrogen runoff from Hawaii cities and farms causing lethal sea turtle tumors – ‘We’re drawing direct lines from human nutrient inputs to the reef ecosystem, and how they affect wildlife’

By Kati Moore30 September 2014 DURHAM, N.C. (Duke Environment) – Pollution in urban and farm runoff in Hawaii is causing tumors in endangered sea turtles, a new study finds. The study, published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed open-access journal PeerJ, shows that nitrogen in the runoff ends up in algae that the turtles eat, promoting the […]

Video: This poet from a tiny island nation just shamed the world’s leaders – ‘We’ve seen waves crashing into our homes’

By Jeremy Schulman23 September 2014 (Mother Jones) – Presidents and diplomats aren’t the only ones calling for climate action at the United Nations. During the opening ceremony of today’s climate summit, ​Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner—a 26-year-old poet from the Marshall Islands—spoke eloquently about the threat that rising seas pose to her country. Jetnil-Kijiner warned delegates of the […]

Has the great climate change migration already begun? –‘It’s already like a weapon of mass destruction’

By Greg Harman15 September 2014 (The Guardian) – The island paradise is under attack. Thanks to destabilizing forces of climate change – rising sea levels and strengthening storms, particularly – some of Earth’s most picturesque locations are being scrubbed from the map. And the residents of these postcard settings are being forced to consider relocating […]

‘Vanishing World’ explores the realities of climate refugees

By Stefanie Spear11 September 2014 (EcoWatch) – Marianne Hougen-Moraga from Denmark explores in her short film Vanishing World—part of the Action4Climate video competition—how people from the remote Alaskan village of Newtok are directly affected by climate change. Their village is literally sinking and now they are starting to build America’s first climate-change refugee camp. The […]

This Hawaiian island is so polluted with plastic that it might become a Superfund site – ‘These animals face enough threats to their survival from sea level rise and habitat loss, the last thing they need is to choke on a floating plastic bag’

By Taylor Hill12 September 2014  (takepart.com) – Hawaiian green sea turtles, monk seals, and black-footed albatrosses are all closer to getting a cleaner, plastic-free home as the federal government takes a step toward declaring a remote Pacific atoll a Superfund site. The designation, which the United States Environmental Protection Agency gives for areas severely contaminated […]

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