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News tag: Environment

Environment news

Compare and contrast: Massive flooding strikes Indonesia’s South Sulawesi

Asia News Network Several regions of South Sulawesi were hit by massive flooding on Tuesday after days of torrential rains that led to three rivers bursting their banks, forcing thousands […]

Compare and contrast: Climate risk: Which European countries have been hit the hardest by extreme weather events?

EuroNews Green Extreme weather events linked to the climate crisis caused more than 765,000 deaths worldwide between 1993 and 2022. Three European countries rank among those facing the biggest human […]

Compare and contrast: A Major Storm Is About to Soak California

The New York Times Officials are especially worried about the risk of flash flooding and mudslides in areas that were recently burned by wildfires in coastal Southern California. But across […]

Compare and contrast: Eager beavers: rodents engineer Czech wetland project after years of human delay

The Guardian Beavers have saved Czech taxpayers $1.2m ( 1m) by flooding a protected former army training site where a long-stalled dam was planned. Officials had hoped to build a […]

Compare and contrast: ‘Even the sound of the water has changed’: can Bogot bring its wetlands back from the brink?

The Guardian Early last year, Bogot faced a prolonged drought, leading to historically low water levels in reservoirs and forcing Colombia’s authorities to impose water rationing. Then, in November, heavy […]

Compare and contrast: Nepal’s Yala glacier shrinking, may vanish by 2040s: Scientists

The Times of India Yala glacier, one of Nepal’s most extensively studied” glaciers, is expected to vanish by 2040s. It is the only glacier in the” entire Himalayas to be […]

Compare and contrast: Glacier Experts Uncover Critical Flaw in Sea-Level Rise Predictions

SciTechDaily New research shows temperate glacier ice flows more steadily than previously thought, leading to lower projections of sea-level rise. That temperate ice is like an ice cube left on […]

Compare and contrast: Thames Water faces investigation over failing environmental promises

Reuters British water regulator Ofwat said it would investigate Thames Water over delays to hundreds of environmental improvements to determine whether the struggling utility had breached its obligations which could […]

Dry January and lower snowpack levels in B.C. raise summer water concerns

CBC The B.C. River Forecast Centre says that a historically dry January in many parts of B.C. means snowpack levels across the province were lower in February than at the […]

Compare and contrast: A fierce tussle over a Northern Territory river reveals Australia’s stark choice on water justice

The Conversation – Australia The territory government recently doubled water extraction allowances from the aquifer that feeds the Roper River, making billions of litres available to irrigators, for free. The […]

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