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Semi-automated account bringing you news stories about extreme weather and other hazards from news sites around the world. Run by @hjcksn / ClimateNode.
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How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change
via phys.org https://phys.org/news/2023-11-farmers-brewers-safeguard-beer-climate.html
How researchers, farmers and brewers want to safeguard beer against climate change

On a bright day this fall, tractors crisscrossed Gayle Goschie's farm about an hour outside Portland, Oregon. Goschie is in the beer business—a fourth-generation hops farmer. Fall is the off-season, when the trellises are bare, but recently, her farming team has been adding winter barley, a relatively newer crop in the world of beer, to their rotation, preparing barley seeds by the bucketful.

Phys.org
Low-intensity fires reduce wildfire risk by 60PCSYM, according to study
via phys.org https://phys.org/news/2023-11-low-intensity-wildfire.html
Low-intensity fires reduce wildfire risk by 60%, according to study

There is no longer any question of how to prevent high-intensity, often catastrophic, wildfires that have become increasingly frequent across the Western U.S., according to a new study by researchers at Stanford and Columbia universities.

Phys.org
Designing cities for 21st-century weather
via phys.org https://phys.org/news/2023-11-cities-21st-century-weather.html
Designing cities for 21st-century weather

Weather extremes, such as heat waves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change.

Phys.org
Mexico’s Acapulco hit by garbage pile-up after deadly hurricane
via The Star (Malaysia) https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2023/11/11/mexico039s-acapulco-hit-by-garbage-pile-up-after-deadly-hurricane
Mexico's Acapulco hit by garbage pile-up after deadly hurricane

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Residents of Acapulco stunned by a devastating hurricane are now battling with another blight trailing in the storm's wake: garbage piling up in streets, fanning concern about the spread of disease in the Mexican beach resort.

The Star
A novel approach to climate-proof infrastructure
via Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/0870f081-7b0e-4e14-aecc-600cb4f3efa9
A novel approach to climate-proof infrastructure

Also in today’s newsletter, some of the world’s largest polluters are getting dirtier

Financial Times
Rebuilding Paradise: five years on from California’s deadliest fire
via The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2023/nov/13/rebuilding-paradise-five-years-on-from-californias-deadliest-fire
Rebuilding Paradise: five years on from California’s deadliest fire

Five years after a wildfire killed 85 people in the Californian town of Paradise, the area has been rebuilt from the ashes. Dani Anguiano and Alastair Gee report

the Guardian
S'porean researcher hopes to help poorer countries have a sustainable water supply
via The Star (Malaysia) https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2023/11/12/s039porean-researcher-hopes-to-help-poorer-countries-have-a-sustainable-water-supply
S'porean researcher hopes to help poorer countries have a sustainable water supply

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Reading about the apocalyptic floods that ravaged Pakistan in July 2022 made an indelible impact on young water researcher Naeem Nadzri.

The Star
Rain, a mixed blessing for people
via Nairobi News https://nairobinews.nation.africa/rain-a-mixed-blessing-for-people/
Rain, a mixed blessing for people

The Kenya Meteorological Department has predicted consistent rainfall in the country all through to April 2024. In a statement on October 31, 2023, the Met department announced the changes in

Nairobi News
Long road ahead
via Dawn https://www.dawn.com/news/1788353
Long road ahead

Victims of last year’s floods have been forgotten.

DAWN.COM
Feature: Rising prices impact Greece’s olive oil producers
via The Star (Malaysia) https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2023/11/12/feature-rising-prices-impact-greece039s-olive-oil-producers
Feature: Rising prices impact Greece's olive oil producers

ATHENS, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Olive oil has been an integral part of Greek cuisine for thousands of years.

The Star