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20-Aug-2025

Threats of weather disasters for drug manufacturing facilities in the US

About The Study: In this nationwide assessment of the frequency with which climate-related disaster events affected counties with U.S. drug production facilities, researchers determined that nearly two-thirds of all facilities were located in counties that experienced at least one disaster declaration. These disaster events posed risks of disruptions to facilities active in all aspects of the supply chain, from active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacture to packaging, disruptions that could be further magnified by the time needed for Food and Drug Administration reinspection of damaged facilities.

Journal: JAMA

19-Aug-2025

In Africa, heat waves are hotter and longer than 40 years ago, UIC researchers say

University of Illinois Chicago
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Greenhouse gas emissions, black carbon and other human activities are responsible for 70% of these changes.

Journal: Communications Earth & Environment

18-Aug-2025

Trees in the tropics cool more, burn less

University of California - Riverside
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More trees will cool the climate and suppress fires, but mainly if planted in the tropics, according to a new UC Riverside study.

Journal: npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

18-Aug-2025

Tropical systems spin up Mid-South crop insurance rates

University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, pay four to six times more for crop insurance than their counterparts in the upper Midwest, and Hunter Biram wanted to know why. The result of his research with colleagues in Kansas was published in late July in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Journal: American Journal of Agricultural Economics

15-Aug-2025

Study: Wealthy Americans flee floods and hurricanes, driving income migration

University of Vermont
Peer-Reviewed Publication

When climate disasters strike, survivors sometimes have to make difficult decisions about whether to rebuild or move to higher ground. But who is stuck in place, and who can afford to move to safety? And what do they bring with them when they go?

Two UVM researchers wanted to explore these questions. Building on their previous study examining American migration patterns from 2010 through 2020, Mahalia Clark and Gillian Galford expanded the scope of the research by digging into how different types of extreme weather, including floods, hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, and other storms, affected where Americans—and their household incomes—are moving.

Journal: Population and Environment

14-Aug-2025

International “State of the Climate” report confirms record-high greenhouse gases, global temperatures, global sea level, and ocean heat in 2024

American Meteorological Society
Peer-Reviewed Publication

According to the 35th annual State of the Climate report, greenhouse gas concentrations, the global temperature across land and oceans, global sea level, and ocean heat content all reached record highs in 2024, and glaciers lost the most ice of any year on record. The authoritative international yearly review of the world’s climate, published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), is based this year on contributions from 589 scientists in 58 countries.

Journal: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

13-Aug-2025

A new window into Earth’s upper atmosphere

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Harvard SEAS and University of Chicago researchers have tested and validated lightweight nanofabricated structures that can passively float in the mesophere, which is about 45 miles above Earth’s surface. The devices levitate via photophoresis, or sunlight-driven propulsion, which occurs in the low-pressure conditions of the upper atmosphere.

Journal: Nature