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Inequitable patterns of US flood risk in the Anthropocene

The study estimates that the annual cost of flooding in the United States will increase 26.4 percent — from $32.1 billion in 2020 to $40.6 billion by 2050. The study estimates the scale of flood risk in the U.S., and who bears the burden of flooding
Current economic losses are borne disproportionately by poorer communities in Appalachia and the Northeast with a proportionally larger White population.
In the coming decades, the areas with highest flood risk will shift south.

Timing and magnitude of climate-driven range shifts in transboundary fish stocks challenge their management

Nearly half of the Earth's shared fish stocks are on the move due to climate change.
By 2030, 23 percent of these 'transboundary' fish stocks will have changed their historical habitat range due to climate change.
The study tracked the shifting ranges of 9,132 transboundary fish stocks, which account for 80 percent of catch taken from the world's exclusive economic zones (EEZs), starting in 2006 and projecting to the year 2100.
Climate change will force 45 percent of the fish stocks that cross through two or more exc

Winter has become the most rapidly warming season as the effects of human-caused climate change continue.
Over the 90-year period from 1930 to 2019, temperatures rose, precipitation increased and humans’ use of land changed. Grasslands and wetlands declined and urbanization rose.

If you factor in air moisture along with heat when considering the impacts of global warming, climate change since 1980 is nearly twice as bad as previously calculated
The Earth has warmed by 1.2 ± 0.1 °C since the preindustrial era; however, surface air temperature alone downplays impacts in the tropics and does not fully describe the nature of global warming and its impact on climate and weather extremes.
This study shows that surface equivalent potential temperature, which combines the surface air temperature and humidi