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On their own, each of the numerous weather calamities that befell the world in 2020 would be a crisis. But hurricane, floods, and wildfires intersected with the pandemic in ways that tested emergency response systems in ways they haven’t before. Piling the climate crisis on top of a public health crisis not only put evacuees in danger of contracting covid-19 while simultaneously losing everything they owned, it also strained disaster response resources and almost certainly contributed to ongoing disaster fatigue already plaguing first responders. This year will leave indelible scars on the ...

2020's Worst Environmental Disasters, and How Climate Change Played a Role | The Weather Channel The Weather Channel 12/20/2020 Ron Brackett In a year of unprecedented disasters, much of the damage done to our planet in 2020 was self-inflicted. From devastating oil spills in sensitive areas to deadly wildfires that consumed record acreage to failing dams that flooded entire towns, the worst environmental disasters of the year showed the influence of humans. That influence is clearly evident when a tanker slams into a coral reef and spills thousands of barrels of oil. It's le...

U.S. firm deploys drones to replenish forests destroyed by wildfires Nathan Howes Sunday, December 13th 2020, 2:13 pm - According to DroneSeed, it can grow up to 140 trees per acre based on tests in New Zealand and Washington state. With a record-setting wildfire season blazing across the U.S., one company has found a possible solution for quickly regenerating the vast amount of lost forests. But Seattle-based DroneSeed believes it has an effective and efficient answer to the problem -- using fleets of drones (also referred to as drone swarms) to reforest burned-down areas by releasing "seed...