内容摘要：Food and Drug Administration, San Clemente, Calif. (21,450 square feet)

Food and Drug Administration, San Clemente, Calif. (21,450 square feet)

Though an individual storm cannot be blamed onstudies have found that typhoons are becoming stronger and wetter. In its State of the Climate in Asia 2021 report on Monday, the World Meteorological Organization concluded economic losses from drought, floods and landslides have risen sharply in Asia. Weather- and water-related disasters, the U.N. agency found, affected 50 million people and caused $35.6 billion in damages.

“Weather, climate and water extremes are becoming more frequent and intense in many parts of the world as a result of climate change,” Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the WMO, said in a statement. “We have more water vapor in the atmosphere, which leads to extreme rainfall and deadly flooding. The warming of the ocean fuels more powerful tropical storms, and rising sea levels increase the impacts.”Nearly a decade after Typhoon Haiyan left 7,300 people dead or missing, families in the Philippines are still adjusting to relocation following the climate disaster. (Nov. 17) (AP video: Joeal “Bogie” Calupitan and Aaron Favila/Production: Brittany Peterson)In coastal villages hit hardest by Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Super Typhoon Yolanda, the damage is still on full display — damaged homes with roofs and walls caved in, foundations of others with only toilets remaining. The government has moved to demolish many of the remaining homes, though a few residents are refusing to relocate.

A cargo ship that washed ashore has become a popular tourist attraction. But Emelita Abillille, a fish vendor in the village of Anibong with her husband and five children, said she cries whenever she sees the ship.Tourists pose on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, for a picture on top of the bow of M/V Eva Jocelyn, at the coastal village of Anibong, an area badly hit by super Typhoon Haiyan when it struck the province nine years ago, in Tacloban city, central Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Tourists pose on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022, for a picture on top of the bow of M/V Eva Jocelyn, at the coastal village of Anibong, an area badly hit by super Typhoon Haiyan when it struck the province nine years ago, in Tacloban city, central Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Jeremy Garing drinks with his neighbors outside their house in Tacloban, central Philippines on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Mikayla Brown sits for a photo in the room of her son, Elijah, who died of a fentanyl overdose at 15, in Atascadero, Calif., Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, as two of his skateboards hang on the wall. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Mikayla Brown sits for a photo in the room of her son, Elijah, who died of a fentanyl overdose at 15, in Atascadero, Calif., Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, as two of his skateboards hang on the wall. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)Mikayla Brown lost her son Elijah, who went by Eli, to a suspected fentanyl overdose in 2023, two weeks after his 15th birthday. Eli loved skateboarding, video games and cooking. His favorite was spicy Cajun pasta his mom made and he just started to get into cooking himself.

Eli began experimenting with marijuana in high school and he was going through what seemed like a phase many teenagers go through, his mom said. The family decided he’d go live with his biological father about three hours away in Woodland Hills in Los Angeles, to try to get a handle on what Brown called Eli’s “rebellion era.”Brown said the family “never in a million years” would have thought he was getting into anything more dangerous than that. There was one exception, about a year before he passed away, his mom found him acting funny and he admitted to having taken Xanax, a prescription anti-anxiety drug.