Tag: climate change
How to recover from aclimate disasters
A new study in Brazil has said that the 2016 Rio Grande do Sul floods have left a long-lasting effect on people’s mental health. The study also found that people who suffered from mental health problems were much more likely to be affected by climate change, and they were more likely to live longer. Over 2 million people were affected by the floods.
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What happens when climate change and the mental-health crisis collide?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are likely to experience the greatest mental burden from climate change that older generations have caused, a study said. Poverty, illness or inequalities are some of the things that can cause people to be at risk of poor mental health, the study added. However, understand why is and what we can do to stop it, it further said.
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Powerful storm sweeps into Georgia after hitting Florida
Cyclones in US are travelling faster and are causing a 25% increase in local rainfall compared to hurricanes, a researcher said. The researchers called it “a forecaster’s nightmare”. “It’s very likely that human-caused climate change contributed to…unusually warm ocean,” the researcher said, adding, “Climate change is making it more likely for hurricanes to behave in certain ways.”
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A powerful storm swept into Georgia after hitting the Florida coast
More storms are intensifying rapidly, growing from relatively weak tropical storms to Category 3 or higher hurricanes in less than 24 hours, sometimes stunning forecasters and giving residents little time to prepare. Researchers said that storms will intensify more rapidly as Earth’s climate warms. “It’s very likely that human-caused climate change contributed to that anomalously warm ocean,” a researcher said.
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