To ensure the longevity of urban infrastructure, building maintenance must be treated as climate resilience, requiring updated hazard maps based on future climate models, regular structural health monitoring, and retrofitting of vulnerable components.

If American dogs and cats were a nation, they would rank fifth globally in meat consumption, behind Russia, Brazil, US, and China.

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Scientists have long warned about the detrimental health effects of climate change, including more intense heat waves, yet the Trump administration plans to revoke the "endangerment finding," a crucial scientific determination that greenhouse gases harm public health and welfare.

The future of climate action hinges on navigating uncertainty, with the potential for middle powers to form a new coalition, China's role in climate leadership, and the resilience of renewable energy's political economy being key questions.

Resilience bonds, issued via public-private partnerships, aim to ease the financial burden on insurers by using data on risk reduction from resilience improvements to guide local government bond issuance, thereby expanding coverage to vulnerable populations.

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The findings show that during the late Pliocene, the tropical Andes experienced approximately 3.7°C of warming compared to the Holocene, while tropical sea surface temperatures rose by only 1.9°C, demonstrating a land-to-ocean warming ratio of nearly 2:1.
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The study emphasizes the urgent need for adaptation measures, such as installing air conditioning, and calls for decarbonizing the building sector and pursuing net-zero emissions to reverse the trend of increasingly hotter days.
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The extent of snow-covered ground is at a record low. Instead of the typical winter sports, people across the West are still hiking and biking in 50- and 60-degree weather.

Hundreds of scientists, including researchers from the American Meteorological Society, a leading climate science organization, denounced the group’s findings as riddled with errors and misrepresentations.

Averting climate catastrophe must become a central organizing principle for civilization, with tikkun olam (healing the world) becoming a major focus for Jewish life, necessitating a shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources and a reduction in carbon footprints across all aspects of life.

Kim's commitment stems from witnessing firsthand the diminishing snow conditions in her training and competition locations, which she describes as a stark and undeniable reality.

Researchers from World Weather Attribution have found that the intensity of extreme rainfall events has increased by 40 percent since pre-industrial times, largely due to warmer ocean temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions.