Climate Change

"Familiar Culprit May Have Caused Mysterious Mass Extinction"

"It has long been our planet’s greatest and oldest murder mystery. Roughly 445 million years ago, around 85 percent of all marine species disappeared in a geologic flash known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction. But scientists have long debated this whodunit, in contrast to clearer explanations for Earth’s other mass extinctions."

Source: NYTimes, 06/11/2020
June 11, 2020

Climate Coverage and Racial Justice

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"Trump's Latest Environmental Rollback Threatens Minority Communities"

"President Trump’s latest executive order, lifting environmental review of major projects, will have a disproportionately harmful effect on minorities, experts warn."

Source: The Hill, 06/09/2020

Population Of Top 10 Counties For Climate Disasters: 81% Minority

"Communities with large minority populations are among the most vulnerable in the U.S. to the effects of climate change and could become more threatened as the coronavirus pandemic weakens their resilience to disasters, according to experts and federal data."

Source: Climatewire, 06/09/2020

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