Water-related hazards top the list of disasters in terms of both human and economic losses in the last 50 years. The information comes from a comprehensive analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Human action, in general, has increased the risk of flooding since the 1980s in many regions of the world, such as Great Britain, which recently suffered a serious episode, or Spain, whose Mediterranean coast is highly exposed to these phenomena.
An ice colossus the size of Cantabria emerged from the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017, arousing the curiosity of scientists who soon learned that they were in front of some of the largest icebergs recorded by their satellites.
The temperature of the Earth's surface is not uniform but varies to constitute regions that may not be optimal for human life. In this sense, the cold has been presented as our worst enemy
The global cryosphere, all areas of frozen water on Earth, shrank by approximately 87,000 square kilometers per year on average between 1979 and 2016, due to climate change.
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