Thursday, 21 March 2019

News in brief - Thursday 21st March

Climate change insurance costs rise
With increasing numbers of extreme weather events happening around the world as a result of climate change, the cost of insurance could rise beyond an affordable level; people living in places like California are experiencing rising numbers of severe floods and wildfires and will no longer be able to pay for insurance to cover the costs of the damage

Victims of Cyclone Idai still wait for help
Thousands of people in Mozambique are still waiting for help to arrive as flood waters have created an inland sea; people are quickly running out of clean drinking water and the threat of illness and disease is creeping ever closer

American heatwaves on the rise
US temperature records are showing that hotter heatwaves are now more likely than extreme cold temperature events in the future; over the past 20 years, there have been twice as many high temperature records as cold ones, and this record is looking set to continue