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County Confirms 645 Heat-Associated Deaths In Metro Phoenix Last Year [9]

"Public health officials in Arizona’s most populous county on Wednesday reported they confirmed a staggering 645 heat-associated deaths last year — more than 50% higher than 2022 and another consecutive annual record in arid metro Phoenix."

Climate Change [10]
Disasters [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Public [13]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [14]
Source: AP [15], 03/14/2024
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Mass. Town Spent $600K On Sand. A Winter Storm Washed It Away Days Later. [16]

"A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure."

Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [19]
Source: AP [20], 03/14/2024
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Planting Trees May Not Be as Good for the Climate as Previously Believed [21]

"The climate benefits of trees storing carbon dioxide is partially offset by dark forests’ absorption of more heat from the sun, and compounds they release that slow the destruction of methane in the atmosphere, the research shows."

Climate Change [10]
Forests [22]
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Science [24]
Public [13]
International [25]
Source: Inside Climate News [26], 03/14/2024
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"Spring Is Getting Earlier. Find Out How It’s Changed In Your Town." [27]

"As global warming nudges temperatures higher, memories of the past offer an informal account of how the seasons have changed. A formal account comes from the USA National Phenology Network — phenology is the study of seasonal change — which reports the annual appearance of spring’s first leaves in the contiguous United States since 1981."

Agriculture [28]
Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [10]
Forests [22]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Washington Post [31], 03/14/2024
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South American Lithium Mines Threaten Native Water, Culture And Wealth [32]

"In the “lithium triangle” – a region spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia – native communities sit upon a treasure trove of the stuff: an estimated trillion dollars in lithium."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Justice [34]
Natural Resources [17]
People & Population [35]
Pollution [23]
Technology [36]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
International [25]
South America [37]
Source: AP [38], 03/14/2024
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"Giant Redwoods: World’s Largest Trees 'Thriving In UK'" [39]

"Giant redwoods - the world's largest trees - are flourishing in the UK and now even outnumber those found in their native range in California."

Forests [22]
Natural Resources [17]
Public [13]
California [40]
Europe [41]
Source: BBC News [42], 03/14/2024
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Climate-Science Deniers Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition [43]

"Last July, a small group of rabble-rousers boarded a trio of powerboats, banners and bullhorns in hand. They were headed for the massive floating construction site of an offshore wind farm 35 miles from the eastern tip of Long Island, New York."

Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [44]
Journalism & Media [45]
Science [24]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Sierra [46], 03/13/2024
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"Legal Action Could End Use Of Toxic Sewage Sludge On US Crops As Fertilizer" [47]

"New legal action could put an end to the practice of spreading toxic sewage sludge on US cropland as a cheap alternative to fertilizer, and force America to rethink how it disposes of its industrial and human waste."

Agriculture [28]
Chemicals [48]
Environmental Health [12]
Laws & Regulations [49]
Pollution [23]
Waste [50]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Guardian [51], 03/13/2024
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Maryland Lawmakers Balk at Ending Subsidies for Trash Incineration [52]

"Within a year of moving to Cherry Hill, a majority Black neighborhood on Baltimore’s southern tip, Shanae Thomas noticed her asthma—a health problem she was born with—had gradually worsened."

Air [53]
Chemicals [48]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [34]
Environmental Politics [44]
Laws & Regulations [49]
Pollution [23]
Waste [50]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [54]
Source: Inside Climate News [55], 03/13/2024
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"Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim to Ban Lab-Grown Meat" [56]

"Restricting the sale of protein cultured from animal cells, developed as a way to raise meat without the climate impacts of livestock, has become a trendy right-wing legislative focus in states from Arizona to Florida."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [10]
Consumer [57]
Environmental Politics [44]
Food [58]
Laws & Regulations [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: Inside Climate News [59], 03/13/2024
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Corals at Risk as Great Barrier Reef Faces Its Latest Bleaching Event [60]

"Increasingly frequent marine heat waves are hammering away at the world’s coral reefs, scientists say."

Biodiversity [29]
Climate Change [10]
Fish & Fisheries [61]
Natural Resources [17]
Water & Oceans [18]
Public [13]
International [25]
Australia & Oceania [62]
Source: Inside Climate News [63], 03/13/2024
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"EPA Rule Tees Up Legal Battle Over Federal Climate Authority" [64]

"EPA’s rule to limit methane emissions from the oil and gas sector may be the latest battleground over whether the agency is exceeding its authority to regulate planet-warming emissions."

Chemicals [48]
Climate Change [10]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Environmental Politics [44]
Laws & Regulations [49]
Pollution [23]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: E&E News [65], 03/13/2024
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"How Trump Could Exit The Paris Climate Deal — And Thwart Reentry" [66]

"Allies of former President Donald Trump have a plan to leave the Paris climate agreement and make it much harder for a future Democratic president to rejoin it."

Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [44]
Laws & Regulations [49]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
Source: E&E News [67], 03/13/2024
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"EU Parliament Passes Weakened Pollution Limits For Livestock Farms" [68]

"The EU Parliament on Tuesday gave its final approval to new rules to cut pollution from livestock farms, but only after agreeing with EU countries to make the law far weaker than initially planned."

Agriculture [28]
Climate Change [10]
Environmental Politics [44]
Laws & Regulations [49]
Pollution [23]
Public [13]
Europe [41]
Source: Reuters [69], 03/13/2024
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"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." [70]

"How can the world reach net zero if it keeps inventing new ways to consume energy?"

Climate Change [10]
Economy & Business [71]
Energy & Fuel [33]
Technology [36]
Public [13]
National (U.S.) [30]
International [25]
Source: New Yorker [72], 03/13/2024
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