About 577,000 people (20.2%) living in the 27 counties in North Carolina under a major disaster declaration after Hurricane Helene had high social vulnerability to disasters, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Community Resilience Estimates (CRE). Those areas and one tribal area…
Category: Climate Change
Americans Increasingly Link Increases in Extreme Weather Events to Climate Change
The summer of 2023 was the hottest on record, and also had a variety of devastating, extreme weather events. Wildfires in Canada, flooding in Libya and drought in regions across the world. There are three and a half more months…