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Satellite Images Show Louisiana Sinking Quickly
Last November, weather.com published Losing Louisiana, a look at the people whose homes and land are being lost as the Gulf of Mexico slowly swallows the state’s southern tip. Today, ProPublica continues the story with a massively interactive feature on the subject, documenting the land loss, the history that led the region here and the economic and environmental devastation that may lie in the future. Using satellite imagery, historic maps and photography, the online feature shows in clear green and...
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10 Places Where Climate Change Is Being Felt the Fastest
#10: South Florida Where are the effects of global warming already having a major impact? In places like South Florida and especially Miami, which faces major long-term threats from a slow but stealthy adversary: sea level rise. In this region, sea levels already have risen by about a foot since 1880. By the end of this century, according to the latest assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, they're expected to rise by another 1 to 3 feet,...
India's Smog Damages Enough Crops to Feed 94 Million: Study
India's Smog: The World's Dirtiest Air Smog covers buildings in New Delhi, India, in this aerial photo from May 2014. The World Health Organization reported in May that the Indian capital had the dirtiest atmosphere in the world, as it has the world's highest annual average concentration of airborne particles known as PM2.5. (AFP/Roberto Schmidt) Millions of tons of India's major crops were lost in 2005, worth more than $1 billion and enough to feed tens of millions of people...
Drought Divide: Tropical Rains to Help Plains, Not SoCal
(ClimateCentral.org) The remnants of two tropical systems — one from the Gulf of Mexico, the other just west of Baja California — are expected to serve as wells of moisture fueling rains this weekend over portions of the country’s two main drought hotspots, namely parts of the Southern Plains and Southern California. But while those rains could make dents in the Plains drought, they are likely to make little difference in California, local weather experts said. Both the Southern Plains...
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