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Scientists anticipate that 2024 will emerge as the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous heat levels recorded in 2023. This year will also mark the first complete year exceeding the Paris Agreement's temperature threshold of 1.5°C. According to Carbon Brief's State of the Climate …
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Climate change impacts are increasingly felt, especially in cities and urban areas. Rising temperatures exacerbated by the urban heat island (UHI) effect, creeping sea levels, and the increasing frequency and severity of extreme natural events like storms, floods, droughts, and heatwaves pose …
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) released a series of Build Back Better Sector Guides, Volumes 1-6, to provide practical resources for its clients, partners, and staff to enhance climate and disaster resilience of communities, infrastructure, and systems through effective post-disaster …
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Climate change significantly affects airports. Rising temperatures complicate takeoffs, resulting in flight cancellations and financial repercussions. Notably, Hurricane Irma inflicted $173 million in damages at Sint Maarten airport in 2017, while recent flooding at Dubai's airport on April 16, …
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Around 1.1 billion people live in slums and other informal settlements worldwide. Habitat for Humanity estimates that by 2030, one in four people will live in an informal settlement. The organization shows the cities in the world today that have the most significant population of informal …
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Aging infrastructure, underinvestment by water utilities, population growth, increased industrial demand on the system, and heavy rainfalls due to climate change overwhelm UK sewers, spilling them into its waterways. Privatization of waterworks began during Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's …
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Bangladesh's unique geographic landscape is a low-lying delta with many rivers and tributaries, hence known as the land of rivers, making it flood-prone and vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Besides its many rivers and lakes, the country has a small hilly region crossed by swiftly flowing …
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In the United States, stormwater and water runoff significantly threaten water quality. As more areas are urbanized and developed, the landscape is increasingly covered with impervious materials, which prevents water from soaking into the ground. This change boosts the volume and speed of …
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Rising global temperatures have led to more intense heat waves, stronger hurricanes and floods, longer wildfire seasons, and widespread droughts. Copernicus data shows that from July 2023 until August 2024, for a consecutive 13 months, global average temperatures were 1.5°C above the …
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The US drinking water is one of the world's safest and most reliable, but its aging infrastructure can disrupt supplies and threaten water quality. Extreme weather events due to climate change also push these systems beyond their capacity, causing them to break with cascading impacts on other …
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San Francisco faces a triple threat from climate change: rising sea levels, extreme storms that dump record volumes of water into the city’s already stressed sewer systems, and flooding. A new report, "Come Hell or High Water," from the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury, shows that the city’s …
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From June to August 2024, many cities across the U.S., from the East Coast to California, recorded unprecedented high temperatures. Some locations tied and broke heat records set over the past 70 years. 2023 marked the hottest on record globally, with average temperature surpassing the …
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