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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season has come to an end, and it brought a number of particularly damaging storms. Climate change is not thought to increase the number of hurricanes, typhoons and ...
The climate crisis took a hefty economic toll in 2024, with just 10 disasters causing over $200bn in damage, according to a new report by Christian Aid. The report, released on Monday, lists the ...
“More Asian inland regions may be exposed to further severe typhoon-related hazards in the future as a result of climate change,” the lead author of the study, Francis Tam Chi-yung, a ...
However, there was a clear rise in support for personal and community action against climate change. [74] In Taiwan, people that had lived through a typhoon did not express more anxiety about climate change. The survey did find a positive correlation between anxiety about typhoons and anxiety about climate change. [75]
As another typhoon made landfall in Japan, climate researchers said warmer seas were providing extra "fuel" for tropical storms in Asia, making them more dangerous. Typhoon Gaemi swept across East ...
By contrast, official government statistics place the death toll from tropical cyclones at only 10,000 during this same period. The study found 25% of infant deaths and 15% of all deaths among people aged 1 to 44 in the U.S. are related to tropical cyclones. The study found 13% of all deaths in Florida are linked to tropical cyclones. [29] [30]
Experts say climate change could be partly to blame and that the massive flooding across the region proves South Florida’s drainage system isn’t up to the challenge of a warmer, wetter world.
Climate change is driving changes in rainfall patterns across the world, scientists said in a paper published on Friday, which could also be intensifying typhoons and other tropical storms. Taiwan ...