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Circle of Blue
AUGUST 22, 2022
Despite promising adaptation strategies, sea level rise is projected to drown tens of thousands of acres of farmland within the century. Atlantic sea levels are rising three to four times faster than the global ocean average. Plants regulate their salt concentrations much like how our bodies regulate blood pressure.
Legal Planet
AUGUST 30, 2023
The threat of flooding and erosion is increasing throughout the United States as a warming atmosphere makes precipitation events more extreme and contributes to sea level rise. In 2017, over 95,000 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders submitted claims to FEMA for approximately $8.7 In fact, the U.S.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Hurricanes Fiona and Ian brought destruction and death: the former to Puerto Rico, which still has not recovered from Hurricane María in 2017, and the latter to Florida, destroying the Fort Myers area. As we said previously , “Fiona caught Puerto Rico’s government utterly unprepared, leaving the population unprotected.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register.
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. For example, in 2017, Puerto Rico was hit by hurricane Irma and Maria. So why don’t these islands just adapt to climate change?
Law Columbia
MAY 19, 2023
Two executive orders, Executive Orders (EOs) 13990 and 14008 , both issued within a week of President Biden’s inauguration, call for a whole-of-government and science-based approach to tackling the current and expected impacts of climate change on the U.S and its economy, infrastructure, and markets.
Circle of Blue
JULY 14, 2021
Human development on floodplains, coupled with inadequate regulation, is increasing the threat of floods in India. However with the passage of time, these floodplains have become victims of illegal as well as planned legal invasion from the governments across the country.” – Jayshree Vencatesan of Care Earth Trust, Chennai.
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