July Current Events 2024: Disaster News
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- Hurricane Beryl Destroys Homes And Livelihood Across Caribbean Islands
- Water Temperature In New Zealand Exceeds Global Average
- Dozens Of Pilot Whales Found Dead After Getting Stranded Ashore A Scotland Beach
- A Quarter Of Small Businesses In The U.S. At Risk Of Shut Down Due To Frequent Flood Crises
- Landslide In Ethiopia With 229 Bodies Pulled From The Wreckage
Hurricane Beryl Destroys Homes And Livelihood Across Caribbean Islands
Thursday, July 4, 2024 – Hurricane Beryl, which killed hundreds in Jamaica, is hitting the Cayman Islands. The British overseas territory is largely affected by the hurricane, which has caused "utter devastation" in the Caribbean since Monday, when it almost destroyed Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Category 3 storm Beryl may attain 120 mph gusts. The Cayman Islands have had thunderstorms and severe winds. According to current figures, 60% of the population was without electricity on Wednesday night, and more were without water.
At least nine people have died in hurricane-affected countries, including a man who was washed away and a woman who died in Hanover when a tree fell on her house. However, officials in Grenada and St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) have cautioned that the death toll may grow as they assess damage on some islands.
The UN has released $4m (£3.1m) from its emergency response budget to aid Jamaica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines.
Source: The Guardian
Water Temperature In New Zealand Exceeds Global Average
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 – New Zealand's water temperatures have reached record highs, exceeding world norms thrice in one location and raising concerns for the country's marine life and ecosystems. According to new Stats, oceanic sea-surface temperatures have grown on average between 0.16 and 0.26 degrees Celsius every decade since 1982, and 0.19 to 0.34 degrees Celsius in coastal waters.
When comparing data from the last 20 years, the pace of ocean surface warming around New Zealand has outstripped the worldwide per decade average of 0.18C by double, with one place, the Chatham Rise, being three times warmer than the global norm.
Marine heatwaves, which are protracted episodes of extraordinary seawater temperature, have also hit new highs. The Western North Island saw heatwave conditions for 89% of 2022, the most among coastal areas, while the Tasman Sea was in a heatwave for 61% of the year, the highest among oceanic locations.
Source: The Guardian
Dozens Of Pilot Whales Found Dead After Getting Stranded Ashore A Scotland Beach
Thursday, July 11, 2024 – Dozens of long-finned pilot whales died after the stranding of a pod consisting of 77 of them on an Orkney beach. This event may potentially be the largest mass stranding in many decades. Twelve of the animals found at Tresness Beach on Sanday Island were still alive. However, the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) rescuers believed it was improbable for them to be rescued.
Rescuers had difficulty righting the whales to refloat them on Thursday owing to soft sand. It might be the most serious stranding event in Scotland since 1995 when the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (Smass) was established.
Stranded whales are a periodic occurrence. 55 pilot whales died last year after they were stranded on the Isle of Lewis. Only one was effectively re-floated. Only 15 individuals remained alive when they were stranded on the coast, but they were subsequently euthanized. In 2011, over 60 animals had difficulties in shallow waters in Sutherland, resulting in the unfortunate demise of around 25 of them.
Source: The Guardian
A Quarter Of Small Businesses In The U.S. At Risk Of Shut Down Due To Frequent Flood Crises
Thursday, July 18, 2024 – As the climate catastrophe generates bigger and more regular floods throughout the US, one in every four small enterprises is one calamity away from closing. According to experts, activists, and company owners, local governments may benefit small companies by investing in infrastructure improvements such as sewage, drainage, and water catchment systems.
The business's survival is being called into question by the residual hardship and debt from Covid-19, as well as the prohibitively expensive flood insurance rates, and those losses. One-fourth of small businesses report that they are one disaster away from closure, according to the US Chamber of Commerce.
First Street, a climate risk data non-profit, estimates that flooding would cost the US business sector $16.9 billion over the next 30 years. Experts say small companies are struggling to afford insurance that will help them weather future storms, particularly when premiums rise and insurers abandon the market in certain areas owing to climate risk.
Source: The Guardian
Landslide In Ethiopia With 229 Bodies Pulled From The Wreckage
Tuesday, July 23, 2024 – Landslides happened on Sunday evening and Monday early after heavy rainfall in a remote mountainous section of the Gofa zone, Ethiopia. The local government said that the hunt for survivors was "ongoing vigorously," but that the "death toll could still rise."
Hundreds of people gathered at the site, as others dug in the soil to find individuals trapped below. Rescuers have so far recovered the corpses of 229 persons killed in two landslides in southern Ethiopia.
Heavy rains prompted a landslip on Sunday, and while police officers, teachers, and locals from adjacent villages hurriedly persisted with search-and-rescue efforts on Monday, a second landslip happened, burying them also beneath the muck. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), southern Ethiopia has been severely affected by excessive rain and floods in recent months.
Sources: BBC
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