A new study found that many of our predictions on sea-level rise have been predicated on inaccurate starting numbers. In many places, especially Southeast Asia and the Pacific, it’s significantly worse than we thought.
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Satellite images show the Sierra Nevada mountains before and after a major heat wave melted significant portions of California’s snow.
The Trump administration is preparing what environmental experts are calling one of the most sweeping regulatory rollbacks in modern history. The president plans to revoke the EPA’s legal authority to regulate carbon emissions on Thursday. If it’s withdrawn, it could upend decades of U. S. climate policy. CBS News’ David Schechter has more.
Prescribed burn planned at Angel Island this week
At least six persons died in separate rain-related incidents after heavy rains lashed different parts of Telangana due to the impact of Cyclone ‘Montha’ on October 29, police and district officials said on Friday. A husband and wife were washed away while trying to cross an overflowing stream on a two-wheeler in Siddipet district and their bodies were traced on Friday, police said. In other incidents, a man died when a road-side tree uprooted and fell on him while riding a bike in Suryapet district and an elderly woman died in a wall collapse incident in Mahabubabad district. A man in his mid 60s, who was bed-ridden, died when flood water entered his house in Warangal, officials further said. There were some more incidents wherein people went missing after getting swept away in floodwaters Heavy rains on October 29 led to waterlogging of roads and inundation of low-lying areas at several places in Warangal, Hanamakonda, Mahabubabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Bhadradri Kothagudem,…
Downloads for decentralized messaging app Bitchat has surged in Jamaica as 185-mile-per-hour winds batter the Caribbean, cutting off communication. Jamaicans have rushed to download Jack Dorsey’s decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app Bitchat as the fatal Hurricane Melissa continues to rip through the Caribbean. Bitchat which uses Bluetooth mesh networks for internet-free, encrypted communication is now the second-most downloaded app on the Apple App Store and Google Play in Jamaica, offering a lifeline for 2. 8 million people as internet coverage continues to falter in the region. Bitchat only trails weather forecast platform Zoom Earth indicating that two of their most basic needs right now are to know what the weather is, and to communicate with one another. Read more.
‘Life-Threatening Damage’: Hurricane Melissa Makes Landfall in Cuba After Battering Jamaica
Melissa strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane, threatening catastrophic flooding in Jamaica, Haiti
Melissa strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane, threatening catastrophic flooding in Jamaica, Haiti
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) Hurricane Melissa strengthened into a major Category 4 hurricane, with the possibility of intensifying to a Category 5 storm Sunday night,.