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In hopes of preparing the city for these changes, Drexel University, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and CCRUN convened more than 100 experts, community members and stakeholders to produce a research agenda that, if pursued, could help to fortify Philadelphia, and its most vulnerable populations, against the extreme effects of climate change.

Aim: Existing abiotic and biotic threats to plant species (e.g., disease, drought, invasive species) affect their capacity to recover post-fire. We use a new, globally applicable framework to assess the vulnerability of 26,062 Australian plant species to a suite of active threats after the 2019–2020 fires. Location: Australia. Time period: 2019–2020. Major species studied: Plants. Methods: Spatial data for existing threats and information on species-level susceptibility were combined with estimates of the extent of range burnt in southern Australia (> 22°S) to assign species against 10...

Language? sort out what's happening now in haiti. this looks pretty devastating. >> yeah. thank you for having us on. this is an absolutely hugely devastating event not just on its own but because of these other cascading hazards that you mentioned. around 8:30 this morning local time in haiti, there was a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. for reference, that's about two times stronger than the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck in 2010 that caused over 200,000 fatalities in port-au-prince, the capital and the surrounding regions. this earthquake, luckily, was further away from port-au-prince. about 8...