Dominica

Dominica's Extreme Weather  Dominica is known to have some pretty extreme rainfall on the island. The amount of rainfall that occurs often causes floods and damage to the land. In Dominica, the sea levels are rising which is not good for the island because that is causing more floods to happen on the island. The climate change that is happening in the world is not good for Dominica according to the global climate risk Dominica is ranked 25th out of 150 different countries. The storm rate in Dominica reached an all-time high in 2018 according to the charts provided by the Climate Change Knowledge Portal. Dominica is asking large nations to think of small countries like Dominica and how they are being affected by the global warming that is happening in the world.  Dominica has started to fight the global warming problems but is asking for more countries to join the fight. By 2030, Dominica is pushing to be resilient from these problems. Dominica is building structures that will ...

 Dominica: Mass Wasting  Dominica is known to have lots of volcanic activity. This means that shakes often happen from the nine volcanoes on the island. When these shakes happen Dominica is prone to landslides which tear up lots of property on the island. These landslides have also killed people living on the island. The island has many landslides because the island is on a slope. It also has a climate known to have rainfall and wet soil which is known to cause landslides. The last major landslide in Dominica was on 01/16/2014 and there were two landslides that day. These landslides also happen from hurricanes and tropical storms which happened in Dominica in 1986 When Dominica was experiencing heavy storms and then rockslides began and took out massive numbers of trees used to help the island's population. These landslides happen all throughout the island but some places get different types of slides on the middle of the island you get soil slides because the rockslides happe...