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The Nova Scotia government has pledged more than $2.4 million to seven community-led projects that focus on living shorelines.Living shorelines are seen as a nature-based way to reduce coastal erosion and flooding caused by climate change. They use natural materials — rocks, plants and sand — to stabilize land along the coast.One group to receive funding is the Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation for its work in Mahone Bay.Jordan Veinot, the climate change team lead for organization, believes introducing living shorelines…

This aerial photo taken on July 28, 2020 shows a flooded sports ground along the Yangtze River in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. Man-made global warming exacerbated an incident of extreme flooding and heat in eastern China in 2020, according to a study released Wednesday, which highlighted the need to prepare for increasingly intense episodes of such weather in the country. …

Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.Over the last five years, agencies have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish's hotspot hideouts.Agency workers turn carp into double agents by capturing them, implanting transmitters and tossing them back. Floating receivers send real-time notifications when a tagged carp swims past. Carp are large fish with an even larger appetite.…

Credit: Julia Volk from Pexels New research reveals millions of people around the world living in poverty have been experiencing a "climate hazard flip" since the turn of the century. This comes at a pivotal moment, as world leaders prepare to meet in Dubai for COP28. The research from WaterAid features stark satellite imagery and…

Attribution and projection of the compound extreme event based on the risk-based approach. (a) GEV distributions of the compound index in the Hist2020 (red) and HistNat2020 (blue) simulations from the HadGEM3-GA6-N216 model. The dashed and solid lines represent the intensities of the 2016 and 2020 events, respectively. The gray line shows the fraction of attributable risk (FAR; see y-axis on the right side of the panel). (b) The FAR value (bottom axis,…

The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region's flood control systems nearly to the breaking point. As rising global temperatures make extreme storms more common, the nation's dams and reservoirs—crucial to keeping communities dry—are being tested. California and states along the Mississippi River have faced similar flood control…

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Infographic. Credit: Nina Bjørnskov/SDU Many countries are considering or have already planned on converting low-lying farmland into wetlands in order to save CO2 emissions. The idea is that oxygen-depleted soil in wetlands emit less greenhouse gas than oxygenated cultivated land, thus benefiting the climate. But such conversions…