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US climate disasters racked up $165 billion in damage in 2022

A massive hurricane, a historic drought and 16 other major disasters across the U.S. collectively racked up $165 billion in damages and killed at least 474 people in 2022, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration analysis published Tuesday.

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NOAA: Ian, drought supercharged US weather extremes in 2022

America’s onslaught of mega costly weather disasters remains stuck in high gear

The Independent UK

Climate change makes heat waves, storms and droughts worse, climate report confirms

The connection between weather and climate change has never been clearer. And simultaneous extremes, such as hot and dry weather together, are particularly dangerous.

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Relentless rain, record heat: study finds climate crisis worsened extreme weather

Scientists describe as ‘very alarming’ research that shows severe weather events were made more likely by climate change

The Guardian - US

Drought, floods, wildfires: Climate change upends archaeology

Artifacts are being jostled or buried — or emerging as extreme drought causes water levels in rivers and lakes to fall due to extreme drought.

Axios

The burning question about fungi: what happens to them in extreme heat?

Scientists in Italy are testing the impact of fire and drought to learn how the changing climate affects underground fungal networks

The Guardian - UK

Drought busters? Why Northern California storms could mean temporary relief in 2023

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The hazardous weather bearing down on Northern California has flooded overwhelmed rivers and creeks, toppled trees and knocked out power to a storm-weary region.

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Diogo Dalot reveals what Manchester United dressing room say about club trophy drought

Diogo Dalot returned from injury against Everton on Friday in the FA Cup and he discussed the club's current trophy drought.

Manchester Evening News

Global Food Prices in 2022 Hit Record High amid Drought, War

Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine months in a row, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said, as Russia's war in Ukraine, drought and other factors drove up inflation and worsened hunger worldwide. The…

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Global food prices in 2022 hit a record high amid drought and war

Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine months in a row, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said.

WEKU

California gets a break from the rain, but more storms are coming

SAN FRANCISCO — At least two more serious storms are headed toward California over the next few days, bringing more heavy rains and flash floods as communities tally the destruction from this week’s punishing atmospheric river.

Los Angeles Times

Biden signs water bills benefiting 3 tribes in Arizona

President Joe Biden has approved three bills that will improve access to water for three tribes in Arizona amid an unrelenting drought

The Independent UK

Global food prices in 2022 hit record high amid drought, war

Global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oils were the highest on record last year even after falling for nine months in a row

The Independent UK

Why is drought-weary Los Angeles letting stormwater flow into the Pacific Ocean?

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles River roared to life this week as a series of powerful storms moved through the Southland. In Long Beach, 3 feet of water shut down the 710 Freeway in both directions, while flooding in the San Fernando Valley forced the closure of the Sepulveda…

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The Conversation

How California could save up its rain to ease future droughts — instead of watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific

California has seen so much rain over the past few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean. Yet, most of the state remains in severe drought.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: The drought is over now, right? (Spoiler alert: No)

The storms keep coming, one after another after another, like a series of fire-hose blasts so relentless that meteorologists use terms like “atmospheric river,” “bomb cyclone” and “bombogenesis.” What happened to our formerly gentle old winter visitor, the “pineapple express”? Cities and highways have flooded in Northern California, and the…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: How to save all that water from the atmospheric river

California has seen so much rain in the last few weeks that farm fields are inundated and normally dry creeks and drainage ditches have become torrents of water racing toward the ocean. At the same time, most of the state is still in severe drought.

The Conversation

Climate change is leaving African elephants desperate for water

African elephant numbers have dropped from about 26 million in the 1800s to 415,000 today. While this is largely due to European colonisation, poaching and habitat loss, these majestic animals now face another grave challenge.

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California’s aging levees are being pushed to the breaking point by climate whiplash

LOS ANGELES — The pounding rains of New Year’s Eve had ceased, but the pastures, freeways and neighborhoods surrounding the tiny community of Wilton continued to disappear beneath a vast, growing ocean of muddy water that left only the roofs of sunken vehicles visible to rescue helicopters.

Al Jazeera

California declares state of emergency ahead of incoming storm

Heavy rainfall expected to cause flooding and power outages across the state, with tornados in other parts of the US.

Los Angeles Times

String of brutal atmospheric rivers imperils a California already weakened by drought

LOS ANGELES — A successive series of powerful atmospheric river storms poses a growing threat to California as the ground becomes more saturated, river levels rise and heavy winds threaten the power infrastructure.

ABC News

Fears drought could follow floods as BOM forecasts chance of El Niño arriving off back of La Niña

The Bureau of Meteorology says there is a 40 per cent chance a warm and dry El Niño pattern will immediately follow the current La Niña should it recede in autumn, putting farmers on edge.

Tribune News Service

California snowpack at decade high, reservoirs still down. What about the drought?

Amid a brief pause in the onslaught of winter storms slamming into California, state water officials trudged through fresh snow at Echo Summit, south of Lake Tahoe, on Tuesday to confirm what more than a hundred sensors across the Sierra already show: the California Sierra snowpack is at a decade…

The Texas Tribune

Texas ag agency says climate change threatens state’s food supply

A new Texas Department of Agriculture report also points to other factors that are making it harder for Texans to access and afford food, including wages falling behind rising costs of living.

The Times of India

Artisans from drought prone Satara to sell local millets, handicrafts in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Over 25 years ago, the shepherd women of drought-prone Satara lived off the land, rearing goats and sheep, and would supplement their income by working as construction labourers or toiling in sugar factories in the big cities. Until a private intervention trained them as artisans by harnessing local resources.…

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