Monday, 2 September 2019

News in brief - Monday 2nd September

Hurricane Dorian makes landfall in the Bahamas
The strongest ever Atlantic hurricane on record has caused devastation across the Bahamian islands in the Caribbean; the category 5 storm had wind speeds of near 150mph and 13,000 homes are feared damaged or destroyed

Global warming causing geese to migrate 
Global heating has been found to shift the migration patterns of barnacle geese; these birds would normally have stopped for feeding further south of Norway but they are now stopping further north as places are too warm which is decreasing the availability of food

More funding for climate change crisis requested
Environmental groups have written to the government to request that more money be put towards finding solutions to the climate change crisis; they suggest the money could be spent on improving public transport, low-carbon technologies, sustainability schemes, and re-wilding areas of nature