A warmer planet is creating drier conditions and increasing lightning activity – this means more fuel AND ignition - causing catastrophic wildfires and other anomalies like firenadoes.
Climate change means warmer ocean temperatures and higher sea levels. This is intensifying and strengthening hurricanes and tropical cyclones.
This episode tells the story of citizens most urgently affected by the melt in Alaska, faced with becoming climate refugees.
A warming Earth can lead to a deadly domino effect: the increased occurrence, frequency and intensity of sinkholes and landslides.
In recent years, unprecedented flooding has been drowning towns, changing the landscape, causing billions of dollars in losses, and taking lives.
As global temperatures rise, deadly rogue storm events become more frequent and widespread, including thunderstorms in the north.
