Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Floodplains are expanding into new areas with dense populations due to sea-level rise and land-use change, but the researchers also think people are building at an accelerated pace in flood-prone areas. A dam break in Bihar, India, in 2008 killed 2,400 people and affected more than 3 million.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Floodplains are expanding into new areas with dense populations due to sea-level rise and land-use change, but the researchers also think people are building at an accelerated pace in flood-prone areas. A dam break in Bihar, India, in 2008 killed 2,400 people and affected more than 3 million.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. External costs include everything from pre-mature deaths due to air pollution to the sky-rocketing insurance costs for properties vulnerable to sea level rise.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008. After the particularly destructive 2005 and 2008 hurricane seasons, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP all prepared alternate sites for business operations, control centers, and data systems in parts of the United States not vulnerable to hurricanes. Credit: Robert Scoble ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

Since 2008, an average of 20 million people have been internally displaced each year. The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise.

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

The unprecedented event reminded Joel Harper, a University of Montana glaciologist who works on the Greenland ice sheet, of a strange anomaly in his data, one that suggested that in 2008 it might have rained much later in the season — in the fall, when the region is typically in deep freeze and dark for almost 24 hours a day.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the minimum reached, the remaining sea ice that survives the year has had its birthday, aging one year. Ice that survives for at least one year is called multi-year ice, sometimes perennial ice, which gives an indication of the health of the ice at the end of the melt season. Sea level rising (not because of melting).

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