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Australia Will Test New Cars for Escapability in Floods
The new guidelines require power windows to stay operational after 10 minutes underwater, with extra backup measures if the windows fail.
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Sea Level Rise Alone Threatens to Crush the Global Economy
A new study shows we face a wet and costly scenario. In the climate-ravaged future, floods that hit once every 100 years would occur every 10 years — and it could cause $US14.2 ($20) trillion in infrastructure damage globally. Yes, trillions of dollars.
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Bertha Is the First Tropical Storm to Make Landfall This Year, and Hurricane Season Hasn’t Even Started Yet
Well, that escalated quickly. In a bizarre turn of events, a tropical storm formed suddenly on Wednesday morning immediately prior to making landfall in South Carolina.
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This Is What Climate Change Looks Like In An Era Of Covid-19
As the coronavirus pandemic continued to escalate around the world, a more localised emergency has unfolded in the Ecuadorian Amazon.