Rebecca Hersher
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559 appearances
28 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 20 Sep
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You know, floods are washing away their seeds, they're destroying crops at an absolutely huge scale.
And more than half of the people in Cambodia are directly involved in agriculture.
That's according to a UN survey from last year.
So even with the warnings in place, flooding is still causing really big problems for Cambodia's economy.
So expensive.
Oh my gosh.
Because the damage plus the investment to, you know, fix the problem, to bring these warnings to people.
Protecting crops from flooding would actually require even more expensive high-tech work.
You'd have to upgrade to long-term weather forecasts for the region, and that would allow farmers to decide where and when and even what to plant, given, you know, what people thought the weather was going to be over the next, like, three to six months.
So that would take a lot of money.
Yeah.
Yeah, absolutely.
You're welcome.
Super Typhoon Sinlaku is hitting the northern Mariana Islands with dangerous winds, powerful enough to down trees, knock out electricity, and even destroy wood-framed buildings.
It's also bringing significant flooding to Guam.
Powerful typhoons and hurricanes are more likely to form because of climate change.
Ocean temperatures are rising because of planet-warming pollution from burning oil, gas, and coal.
That warmer ocean water helps storms like Sinlaku get larger and more dangerous.
Rebecca Herscher, NPR News.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, lost 356 workers in February, according to the federal government's Office of Personnel Management.
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