"Books For Our New, Climate-Changed Summers" [9]
"After the daunting heatwaves and storms of this summer, our cheery visions of the season seem at odds with our climate-changed reality."
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"After the daunting heatwaves and storms of this summer, our cheery visions of the season seem at odds with our climate-changed reality."
"The government of Canada's Northwest Territories declared a state of emergency on Tuesday due to wildfires that have largely destroyed one remote community and are also posing a risk to territorial capital Yellowknife."
"More than 90% of freshwater habitats on England’s most precious rivers are in unfavourable condition, blighted by farming pollution, raw sewage and water abstraction, an Observer investigation reveals."
"Sometimes, breaking news is spectacularly unsurprising — but still hugely consequential. That was the case Tuesday, when California officials finalized a decision they’d been telegraphing for months, voting to extend the life of three gas-fired power plants along the state’s southern coast through 2026, instead of closing them later this year.
"The Biden administration advanced the first potential floating offshore wind auctions off the Oregon coast Tuesday by designating where sales might be located."
"Some Texans who challenge oil and gas waste sites must spend significant sums and time on investigating what they say the Texas Railroad Commission should examine. Will new regulations for handling waste increase oversight or just maintain the status quo?"
"A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws."
"As the United States begins to crack down on PFAS contamination, Indigenous communities are getting left behind."
"Half of regular green tweeters abandoned platform after its sale and cuts to moderation, analysis finds".
"They're tearing up rangeland and riparian areas—and also our ideas about wildness".
"A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California’s Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday."
"Young environmental activists scored what may be a groundbreaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development."
"Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat this summer when he collapsed in a homeowner’s yard and was taken to a hospital, where he died."
"Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand."
"As the climate warms, mosquito-swatting season is getting longer in many parts of the country."
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