If your home insurance policy is up for renewal, prepare to be shocked. That’s because rates are rising rapidly in many parts of the country due to what insurers say is increased risk from climate change. While homeowners’ insurance premiums are up by 4% on average, they have in […] Click here to view original […]
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Could blockchain hold the answer to a more sustainable future? PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES As the world seeks to rapidly reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change, could blockchain hold the answer to a more sustainable future? Many governments have implemented environmental regulations and emission trading schemes […] Click here to view original
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Weather events, linked to a changing climate, brought misery to millions around the world in 2021 according to a new report. The study, from the charity Christian Aid, identified 10 extreme events that each caused more than $1.5bn of damage. The biggest financial impacts were from Hurricane Ida which […] Click here to view original
Icebergs surround Galindez Island in Antarctica, on February 9, 2019. (CNN)In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica’s last six months were the coldest on record. "For the polar darkness period, from April through September, the average temperature was -60.9 degrees Celsius (-77.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a record for those months," […] Click here to view original
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Jiri Rezac / Visum / Redux; The Atlantic Fifty years ago, Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan amid devastating climate disaster. The year before, in 1970, the Bhola cyclone had killed up to half a million people. The human toll of the disaster— one of the deadliest cyclones in recorded […] Click here to view original
FILE – This Nov. 29, 2018, file photo, shows the Transient Test Reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory about 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, in eastern Idaho. The U.S. Department of Defense is taking public comments on its plan to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor prototype at […] Click here to view original
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