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“In most cases, flooding was made worse by sea level rise and we show how much worse,” said study co-author Philip Orton, a physical oceanographer at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.
Orton said there were places, such as basement apartments in the New York City area, filled with water that would have been dry without human-caused sea level rise.
“There are people who experienced significant losses from Hurricane Sandy who would not have experienced those losses but for climate change,” said study lead author Ben Strauss, a sea level scientist who is CEO of Climate Central, a science-and-journalism venture.
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New Delhi– About 67 per cent of Indians prefer the US for higher education, reveals a new report by fin-tech platform Prodigy Finance.
The report on the State of Higher Education in Study Abroad Market, showed that besides the US, Indian students prefer the UK and France at 8 per cent each for pursuing their master’s degree abroad.
Most students who went abroad for higher education were from Maharashtra (20 per cent), Karnataka (15 per cent), Delhi (12 per cent) and Telangana (8 per cent).
Almost 70 per cent who travelled abroad for higher education last year were male and 30 per cent were female, the report showed.
Junior Achievement Of New York Honors Chris Levendos Of Crown Castle At Annual Lower Hudson Valley Champions Celebration
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NEW YORK, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Tuesday, May 18, Junior Achievement of New York - the leading provider of real world education for K-12 students in New York City, Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley - honored Chris Levendos, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer-Fiber of Crown Castle, with the 2021 Lower Hudson Valley Champions Award during the virtual Champions Celebration.
The 2021 Lower Hudson Valley Champions Celebration, presented by Crown Castle and PepsiCo, raised over $100,000 to provide access to financial literacy, entrepreneurship and work readiness programs for K-12 students across Westchester, Rockland, Orange, and Putnam Counties.
Sea level rise caused by carbon emissions accounted for approximately $8.1 billion of the $62.7 billion in losses incurred by New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from Hurricane Sandy, says new study.