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SASKATOON –The world is changing rapidly, and the past is no longer a guide to the future in terms of extreme events and floods. That’s one of the findings from a report on the Changing Cold . . .
More than 40 million people were driven from their homes by continued conflict and worsening weather in 2020 as the climate grew increasingly chaotic.
SASKATOON -- The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) is hoping to improve western and northern Canada climate change predictions. Findings from the Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) – a collaboration between several universities, led by the U of S – suggest that climate change is making future extreme weather events difficult to predict. These disasters, such as wildfires or floods, will likely become more common and more severe, according to U of S research associate Chris DeBeer, the science manager for CCRN. “These changes are happening and we’re coming into situations w...
Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. As temperatures rise, extreme weather displaces record numbers of people May 24, 2021 9:56 AM CDT By Ajit Niranjan A man pulls his son in a cooler with his wife as they wade through their flooded street to reach an open convenience store in Bonita Springs, Florida | David Goldman/AP Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes las...
Climate change forcing farmers into cities Climate displacement The annual report, in its sixth year, found more than 80% of the people forced from their homes in 2020 were in Asia and Africa. In Asia, most of the people forced to flee did so because of extreme weather. In countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia — where hundreds of millions of people live on low-lying coastlines and deltas — a combination of population growth and urbanization has left more people exposed to floods that have grown stronger as sea levels have risen. The most severe cy...