Multiple fires are burning in Southern California, claiming hundreds of structures and thousands of acres and closing many freeways and local roadways, according to state fire officials.
Using a hand-held Garmin Montana 650t unit, I took photos of the tideline in three areas.
An advocacy group has put a price tag on the heaving roads and leaning buildings ubiquitous to the Northwest Territories.
"Yesterday we came over to do an assessment of the high-water flood storm," said Northwest Arctic Borough Deputy Director of Public Services Dickie Moto, who grew up in Deering. "They lost a lot of ground on the front and on the back side of town because of the high water and rough seas.
During last weekend's storm, Shishmaref's landfill road eroded. Local climatologists say that the lack of sea ice is the main problem – not the storm.
The storm began Sept. 28 and continued for several days. A handful of Utqiaġvik’s roads were damaged or destroyed, and the community's freshwater source was nearly compromised.
As climate change fuels large wildfires, the pollution they're releasing is making Americans sick and undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air.
Near record stretch of foggy days at Ted Stevens International Airport.
Shorter periods of sea ice on Hudson Bay as a result of climate change translate into fewer polar bears in Churchill region.
One important factor is the depth of the lake. But there are other variables too.
More open water on rivers and lakes that add to the near-ground moisture.
Drought, causing low waters in Goodnews River, no blackberries, and early cool weather.
Disaster funds are reserved for single events, and storms that collectively cause much damage aren't often individually large enough to count as disasters.
Within the last year, they have measured twenty to one hundred feet of erosion along different sections of their coast line.
"All it would take is one or two big storms and these houses you see behind me would be gravely at risk."
Government scientists have found an island in the Beaufort Sea that is shedding as much as 40 metres of ground each summer.
About a year ago, Tununak opened a $19 million, state-of-the-art airport, but shifting permafrost is buckling the runway.
On June 19, 2015, a slow-moving low-pressure system with spectacular thunderstorms that produced little rain began making its way through Alaska. By the time the storms finally petered out about a week later, 61,000 bolts of lightning had been unleashed on a boreal forest in the state. No one had ever seen anything quite like it, not even in 2004, when 8,500 lightning strikes were recorded in a single day.
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