A weekly review of environmental hazards and disasters
Geo-Hazard Report
September 27, 2021 (Early Edition)
Last Week in Review
Infectious Disease
Hospitals in multiple states begin rationing care as COVID-19 cases surge
Healthline
COVID-19 in the US: Infections surpass 43 million, with 700,000-plus deaths
Worldometer
COVID-19 worldwide: Infections surpass 231 million, with 4.7 million-plus deaths
Johns Hopkins University – Coronavirus Resource Center
Volcanoes
Officials issue Red Alert as Alaska’s Semisopochnoi volcano begins major eruption
Express
Drought
Drought continues to strangle American West, with no relief in sight
Courthouse New Service
Wildfires
Wildfires transform Alaska and amplify climate change
Scientific American
Northern Hemisphere’s summer wildfires released record-breaking carbon emissions
CNN
Changing Climate
Arctic ice levels drop to record lows after declining 13% per decade since 1979
Phys.org
Crop yields decline as heat waves and drought become more frequent and intense
Nature World News
Conferences and Congressional Hearings
Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
American Enterprise Institute (video)
In-Depth Look at Environmental Hazards
Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About
Climate One (audio)
How Decades of Stopping Forest Fires Made Them Worse
Vox (short video)
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