As devastating as the fires have become, we’re still just at the early edge of climate change, says Diego Saez-Gil, chief executive of Pachama, a startup using AI and satellite data to help restore and protect forests.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead.|James Temple|September 17, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Just a few weeks after Hurricane Laura—the strongest storm on record to make landfall in Louisiana—brought devastating storm surges and rainfall to the Gulf Coast, there are now five more named storms in the Atlantic.
A nearly unprecedented cluster of tropical storms are brewing in the Atlantic|Sara Chodosh|September 15, 2020|Popular Science
Learning of safety issues after millions of healthy people have been vaccinated would be devastating to the nation’s health and public confidence.
6 questions that must be answered in the race for a vaccine|jakemeth|September 15, 2020|Fortune
My sense was that of all the devastating consequences of a warming planet — changing landscapes, pandemics, mass extinctions — the potential movement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees across the planet stands to be among the most important.
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration|by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Meridith Kohut|September 15, 2020|ProPublica
Every week, we lose far more of our fellow citizens than died 19 years ago in the most devastating terrorist strike in American history.
America Is About to Lose Its 200,000th Life to Coronavirus. How Many More Have to Die?|by Stephen Engelberg|September 14, 2020|ProPublica
On the other hand, if you think about it, those basic industrial effects can be the most devastating.
New York’s Conservative Fracking Ban|Jay Michaelson|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The premise was simple: satire is devastating against tyrants.
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror|David Keyes|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Gopal, a journalist who covered the war, gives a devastating account of how the conflict was astoundingly mishandled.
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2014|William O’Connor|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The event was a devastating one for Sierra Leone, deemed a “super-spreader” by The New York Times.
Jail Threats for Sierra Leone Ebola Victims’ Families|Abby Haglage|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He said the failure to develop a coherent immigration policy would have a devastating impact.
Pope’s Blistering Attack on ‘Haggard’ Europe|Nico Hines|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Only they go now as a civilizing as well as a devastating influence.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5|Various
Texas, resenting the instability of Creole government, separated from the Mexican States after a devastating war.
Mexico|Charles Reginald Enock
She smiled in a way that showed she didn't disapprove of my persistence, but loosed a salvo of devastating negatives.
Lighter Than You Think|Nelson Bond
Now and then the tragedy of Bertha gripped him by the throat and shook him with its devastating loneliness.
Port O' Gold|Louis John Stellman
He began by attacking and devastating Musri, which lay close to the territory of Milid.
History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)|G. Maspero
British Dictionary definitions for devastating
devastating
/ (ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtɪŋ) /
adjective
extremely effective in a destructive waya devastating war; a devastating report on urban deprivation