Disasters
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Responding To Climate Change -- Copilot AI
Photograph by Bjorn Anders Nymoen, MyShot Copilot -- Microsoft April 24, 2025 Responding to climate change means acting on multiple fronts -- from personal lifestyle choices to systemic policy and ...
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Humanity's Main Problems -- Copilot AI
Copilot -- Microsoft April 14, 2025 Humanity's main problems span various domains: Climate Change: Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and environmental degradation threaten ecosystems and ...
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Iceland Volcano: A New Eruption Is Expected In The Sundhnúkur Crater Row
Protective barriers surrounding the Svartsengi area in early November 2024. (Photo: The Icelandic Met Office / Bjarki Kaldalóns Friis) ICELAND MET OFFICE Updated 11 March at 16:20 UTC Magma ...
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Sea-Level Rise: A New Way To Estimate Probability Of Different Outcomes, Including Worst-Case
Greenland-ice sheet (2022, Nov. 26). Wikimedia Commons.. Benjamin P. Horton, Nanyang Technological University and Benjamin S. Grandey, Nanyang Technological University --The Conversation Feb. 23, ...
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Iceland Volcano: An increased risk of volcanic eruption at Sundhnúkur may last for several weeks
Adverse weather in the coming days may affect the sensitivity of the monitoring network. ICELAND MET OFFICE Updated 4 February at 13:45 UTC Weather conditions in the coming days could affect the ...
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BOOKS: The Shock Doctrine -- Naomi Klein
Wikipedia Jan. 30, 2025 The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal economic ...
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Iceland Volcano: Growing Chance Of A New Eruption On The Sundhnúkar Crater Row
Protective barriers surrounding the Svartsengi area in early November 2024. (Photo: The Icelandic Met Office / Bjarki Kaldalóns Friis) Hazard assessment has been updated. Adverse weather in the ...
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In Climate-Scorched L.A., the Burning Truth of Octavia Butler’s Science Fiction
Pacific Palisades has been left in ruins as properties are reduced to rubble. Screen capture: ABC News Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan -- Democracy Now! Jan 16, 2025 The devastating fires burning Los ...
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‘Particularly dangerous’ weather warning for L.A. fires in effect, gusts of up to 72 mph reported
Los Angeles Times Staff Jan. 14, 2025 The National Weather Service has issued an ominous ‘particularly dangerous situation’ warning for swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, cautioning of wind ...
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Iceland Volcano: Ground Uplift and Magma Accumulation Continue Beneath Svartsengi
Protective barriers surrounding the Svartsengi area in early November 2024. (Photo: The Icelandic Met Office / Bjarki Kaldalóns Friis) ICELAND MET OFFICE Updated 14 January at 15:05 Seismic activity ...
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Fire Weather -- Chris Hedges
Chris HedgesThe wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forests of Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuels has ignited an age of ...
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