Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse.
The largest insurer in California said it would stop offering new coverage. It’s part of a broader trend of companies pulling back from dangerous areas. The climate crisis is becoming a financial crisis. This month, the largest homeowner insurance company…
Climate change scrambles the Florida Keys – POLITICO – POLITICO
New affordable homes are under construction at Seahorse Cottages at a Big Pine Key, Fla., development site in January. | Daniel Cusick/POLITICO’s E&E News Climate change is making it more dangerous — and much more expensive — to live on…
What are waterspouts, and how do they form?
Waterspouts are essentially tornadoes that form over water. They happen all the world. In the U.S., they’re most common near Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to our sun
Our closest stellar neighbors are the 3 stars that are the Alpha Centauri system. They lie just over 4 light-years away (25 trillion miles or 38 trillion km).
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Smelly seaweed sargassum headed toward Florida, the Caribbean. Why? – USA TODAY
Beachgoers in Florida and the Caribbean could be greeted by heavy blankets of smelly seaweed in the weeks ahead as a 5,000 mile swath of sargassum drifts westward and piles onto white sandy beaches. Sargassum, a naturally-occurring type of macroalgae, has…
The 50 States of Climate Change – Outside Online – Outside
Since the 1700s, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has increased by 40 percent, largely from greenhouse gasses released by people burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal. As a result, the climate is becoming more…
The creeping threat of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt
Seaweed has been having a moment. Eco-influencers and columnists rave about its benefits, in everything from beauty products to biofuels. Jamie Oliver has embraced it as a recipe ingredient; Victoria Beckham uses it to keep off the pounds. And they’re…
How Climate Change Plagues Ordinary Americans – Mother Jones – Mother Jones
A state employee rescues a family from flooding during 2019’s Tropical Depression Imelda near Beaumont, Texas. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department via AP This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. What goes through…
Book Review: How Climate Change Is Reshaping America – Undark Magazine
What goes through a person’s mind when disaster strikes? In Jake Bittle’s “The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration,” an ambitious book that details the radical transformations climate change is wreaking on American life, we are given…
By David Wallace-Wells – The New York Times
You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives. Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that…
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