May 30 | Climate Now

The News for Wednesday 30th of May 2018

"The tropical disease, painful but not usually fatal, afflicts hundreds of millions of people around the world. There is no vaccine, so controlling its spread by reining in global warming would be a significant health benefit."

More moisture, more disease / Keeping... Warming to 1.5 Degrees Could Spare Millions Pain of Dengue Fever Inside Climate News

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Extreme rain to increase / Climate Change May Lead to Bigger Atmospheric Rivers

EOS Earth & Space Science News

"A new study shows that climate change is likely to intensify extreme weather events known as atmospheric rivers across most of the globe by the end of this century, while slightly reducing their number."

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

When rain breeds / Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon Nature Climate Change

When rain feeds rain / Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon Nature Climate Change

"Forest-rainfall cascades buffer the effects of drought and reveal a mechanism by which deforestation can compromise the resilience of the Amazon forest system in the face of future climatic extremes."

Photo credit: see #3 below

Burping cows / Feeding...

seaweed cuts 99% of greenhouse gas emissions...

The Independent

"Preliminary research has indicated a small amount of marine algae added to cattle food can reduce methane emissions from cattle gut microbes by as much as 99 per cent."

Photo credit: Pexels

Hydrological intensification /

Global economic response to river floods

Nature Climate Change

"The risk of river floods will increase regionally within the next two decades... in the absence of large-scale structural adaptation, the total economic losses due to fluvial floods will increase in the next 20 years globally by 17%"

Photo credit: see #5 below

Traditional cultures / Amid Ice Melt, New Shipping Lanes Are Drawn Up off Alaska

E&E News

"Early this month, the Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that winter sea ice levels in the Bering Sea had dropped to a record low level for this time of year. That wasn’t surprising news to the... villages along the state’s western coast."

Photo credit: David Schultz Getty Images

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Headline #3 photo: James Martins [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Headline #5 photo: By US_Army_helicopter_flies_over_a_flood-affected_area_of_Pakistan.JPG: Horace Murray, U.S. Armyderivative work: Guillaume70 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons