“Coral bleaching is sweeping across the Great Barrier Reef for a third time in five years.
“Bleaching has struck all three regions of the world’s largest coral reef system for the first time. What has occurred in recent weeks is also more widespread than ever before, marine scientists say.”
“The Arctic Ocean increasingly resembles the Atlantic in its temperature and the species that live there.
“However, scientists from the CNRS and Université Laval, Quebec, showed that an unprecedented strengthening of Atlantic currents is playing a major role in this phenomenon called “Atlantification.””
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-stronger-atlantic-currents-temperate-species.html
“New Democrats say the COVID-19 pandemic is distracting the federal and provincial governments from helping a northern-Ontario First Nation whose residents have been forced to evacuate each spring due to flooding.
“The spring evacuation has become an annual event for the roughly 2,000 residents of Kashechewan…”
“Officials in Michigan are warning that attempts to curb the coronavirus pandemic could have serious consequences for relief and repairs during what is expected to be another tumultuous spring flooding season.
“High water levels are expected to cause severe flooding, shoreline erosion, and road and infrastructure damage even worse than was seen last year…”
https://dailyreporter.com/2020/04/06/michigans-record-high-water-levels-collide-with-coronavirus/
“With historically low river flows and reservoirs running dry due to drought, people in central Chile have found themselves particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Years of resource exploitation and lax legislation have allowed most reservoirs in that part of the country to run dry.”
“Extreme rainfall has become increasingly common in metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil….
“”Intense rainstorms lasting a few hours with huge amounts of water, as much as 80 mm or 100 mm, are no longer sporadic events. They’re happening more and more frequently,” José Antonio Marengo, a senior researcher at CEMADEN and principal investigator for the study, told.”
https://phys.org/news/2020-04-extreme-rainfall-days-metropolitan-sao.html
“Tanzania Meteorological Agency shared forecast shows that there will be increased rainfall between March and May 2020 during the long rain season and this will worsen the already bad situation in the region and beyond.
“The situation may worsen from the effects of category 2 tropical cyclone named Herold that has been reported in northeast of Madagascar.”
“Northern parts of Zambia received the highest rainfall in recorded history of above 2,000 millimetres (mm) in the 2019/2020 rainy season.
“Zambia Meteorological Department (ZMD) acting director Edson Nkonde says data shows that most places in the northern region had rainfall exceeding the 1,300mm average…”
http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/north-breaks-rainfall-record/
“Recent flash floods across Yemen have led to a new wave of dengue fever that has killed as many as 59 people and infected more than 7,400 others.
“The virus, spread by mosquitoes, causes respiratory problems and symptoms very similar to COVID-19.”
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1654451/middle-east
“With communities [in Papua New Guinea] still grappling with the hardships of the two-month state of emergency (SOE) due to Covid-19, more than 60,000 Gulf people have lost their homes and gardens to flooding making living a nightmare.
“This happens as the province prepares to put in measures for its Covid-19 response plan.”
https://reliefweb.int/report/papua-new-guinea/flooding-leaves-60000-homeless
“Emergency teams in Ukraine on Monday continued battling a forest fire in the contaminated area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that has raised radiation fears…
“Two blazes erupted Saturday in the zone around Chernobyl that was sealed after the 1986 explosion at the plant.”
“The average level of methane in the atmosphere increased last year by the highest amount in five years, according to preliminary data released Sunday.”
“After Earth experienced its second-hottest year in 140 years of record-keeping in 2019, the first few months of this year have either broken historic monthly records, or come close.
“January 2020 was the warmest January on record. February 2020 was the second hottest such month on record.
“And on Monday, the European Union’s climate monitoring agency EU Copernicus reported that March 2020 was “on par” with the second and third warmest Marches on record. “
https://mashable.com/article/climate-change-2020-records/?europe=true
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floods, droughts, methane, radioactivity… The virus may be dominating the news, but climate change and its devastating consequences march ever forward. Thanks for your updates, as always, Sir Panopticon!