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Climate change blamed for a third of US flood losses in past three decades

US Louisiana floods

Thomson Reuters Foundation Climate change has boosted the cost of flood damage caused by heavy rainfall in the United States by $7US5 billion over the last three decades, accounting for about a third of total losses, Stanford University researchers said this week. With planet-heating emissions still going up, both extreme rainfall and related losses will […]