Sinking China
What are the impacts of sinking land in China?
Where are the areas most at risk?
How does climate change increase the risk to thr people?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68844731
Flooding in China
What caused the flood?
Where are the areas vulnerable to the flood?
What are the impacts of the flood?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp0gd5ezj9lo.amp
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Traffic hazards
Two killed and six injured in a six-vehicle accident in Tampines on the morning of April 22.
Traffic accidents claimed the lives of 136 people in 2023, a 25.9 per cent jump from the 108 deaths in 2022, according to the Traffic Police’s (TP) annual statistics report.
Why is traffic accidents a hazard in urban neighbourhood?
What was the main cause in the increase of traffic accidents in 2023?
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/8-taken-to-hospital-after-multi-vehicle-crash-in-tampines
Mount Ruang erupted
Mount Ruang erupted on 18 April.
What are the impacts on tourism?
How did the eruption affect Singapore?
How did the government manage the disaster risks?
Why was there a fear of a tsunami from the volcanic eruption?
The following active volcanoes featured below are located near Singapore. How will volcanic eruptions affect Singapore?
Flooding in Dubai, UAE
Hundreds of flights were cancelled and roads were flooded after heavy thunderstorms caused 5.6 inches of rain to fall in Dubai in one day, almost 2 years of rain in average. Four people died in the United Arab Emirates due to the flood.
How does climate change cause the flood?
What are the impacts of the flood?
How would tourism be affected?
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/17/weather/dubai-rain-flooding-climate-wednesday-intl/index.html
Overtourism in Bali
Why does Bali attract tourists?
What are the impacts of overtourism in Bali?
How can tourism development in Bali be made more sustainable?
Which stage of Butler's tourist destination development model do you think Bali is at?
Flooding in Australia
What caused the flooding?
Where are the places affected by the flood?
How does the flood affect the people?
Flooding in Russia
Where are the places affected by the flood?
How does the flood affect the people?
Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hit Taiwan
11Taiwan was hit by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake on 3rd April 2024.
When did the earthquake occur?
Where are the areas affected?
Why is the damage greatest at Hualien?
What are the impacts of the earthquake?
https://www.ft.com/content/88c6df93-b657-4917-a847-bd77cb02ccdc
How will the earthquake impact on tourism?
In a notice on its website, the park said some tourists were injured on its trails, which had been damaged to different degrees by the quake and continued to be hit by tremors.
Since the quake struck, more than 25 tremors (aftershocks) measuring at least 4.5-magnitude have been detected within 50km of Hualien City, according to the US Geological Survey.
During the park’s closure, roads and trails will be repaired and the safety of the area will be assessed.
Disaster management - search and rescue
There were more than 600 aftershocks, with magnitude as high as 5.4 on 4 April at 6.01pm. The map below shows the intensity of the aftershock at the various regions in Taiwan.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/live-72-magnitude-earthquake-hits-taiwan
Update 7 April
How does aftershocks affect search and rescue？
What are the impacts of earthquakes on tourism?
Search and rescue with sniffer dogs
The earthquake is the strongest since 1999. Look at the 7.6 earthquake which hit Taiwan in 1999.
What type of plate boundary is Taiwan located at?
Why does plate movement results in earthquake?
Updated 13 April
Death toll 16 with 2 Singaporeans still missing
Restoration of Taroko will cost NT 1 billion
Impacts on Tourism
Vulnerabilities from Natural disaster
Google AI project against Climate Change
Amazing how technology such as Google AI projects can help in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
How does technology help to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
Land
1. AnthroKrishi, utilises AI and satellite imagery to map critical information about individual farms, aiding in informed decisions around crop planting, optimising crop yields and resource usage.
2. Google's global hydrological AI model predicts floods up to 7 days in advance, even in data-scarce and vulnerable regions, helping to save countless lives.
3. Project Green Light leverage on AI to optimise traffic lights, reducing stops and emissions at intersections by up to 30% and 10%, respectively.
4. Google's AI-based tools provide real-time mapping and fire spread modelling, aiding communities in staying safe and firefighters in battling wildfires more effectively.
Sea
1. Kelp mapping Australia's giant kelp forests to aid in conservation efforts
2. Calling in Corals, a citizen science project harnessing AI to analyse underwater audio recordings to better understand and preserve coral reef ecosystems.
3. Blue Carbon project applies AI to measure the carbon-storing capacity of seagrass ecosystems
Air
1. Contrail forecast maps using Google's AI, pilots can choose routes that minimise contrail formation, reducing carbon emissions.
2. MethaneSAT use satellite data and Google AI to identify and track methane emissions.
3. Solar API uses Google's AI to help businesses estimate rooftop solar energy potential, in adopting solar energy and reducing their carbon footprint.
Drought in Vietnam March 2024
What caused the drought?
Where are the areas affected?
How does this affect people?
Heatwave in Malaysia
A total of eight localities in Peninsular Malaysia are now under Level 2 heatwave where daily maximum temperature can go up to between 37 degrees Celcius and 40 degrees Celcius for three days consecutively.
Where are the areas affected by the heatwave?
Why do you think these areas are more affected by heatwave?
What are the impacts of heatwave?
How can the people adapt to the heatwave?
Extreme weather in Singapore 2023
What is extreme weather?
Why is there an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme weather?
How does Singapore adapt to climate change
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Extreme weather recorded worldwide as well
Asia population Density
Though Singapore is not within the top 10 highest population size, it has the highest population density.
Where are the countries with high population density other than Singapore?
How would high population density impact on the economy, society and environment?
Zero shadow event
A "zero shadow" event, where objects standing upright will not cast a shadow, took place at 1.11pm on March 23 in Singapore.
On this day, the Sun will be directly overhead at 12:17 pm, resulting in objects casting no shadows for brief period of time. This happens for places between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.
What are the two months you can witness this phenomena in a year?
How would that affects temperature in the two months?
Here's the phenomenon in action. https://str.sg/yGAK
Video: Dr Matthias Roth
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/zero-shadow-at-111pm-on-march-23-in-singapore
Reducing water footprint
Sustainability Learning Lab and NIE Postgraduate Diploma in Education students showcase their commitment to sustainability and environmental education on World Water Day.
How can you reduce your water footprint?
Why is there a need to reduce water footprint?
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/pRj2yYYv48oQH3dq/?mibextid=oFDknk
More than 2.2 billion people do not have access to clean and safe water. Watch the video on water crisis.
Thailand proposed land bridge
This is SE Asia existing maritime highways in which you can see that the Straits of Malacca is still the primary route.
You can see that Singapore is still the top handling port now.
How do you this will impact on Singapore's top position in cargo handling port?
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