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"Climate Change May Be Fueling Increase In Major Northeast Snowstorms" [1]

"Scientists say the recent surge of intense Northeast winter storms is probably tied to rising ocean temperatures and changes in the Arctic".

Source: Washington Post [2], 02/02/2022

"Climate Change A Rising Fed Concern As Nominees Face Hearing" [3]

"How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of climate change in their lending policies could take center stage at a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists to the Fed’s influential Board of Governors."

Source: AP [4], 02/02/2022

"Biden Officials Head To EPA Regional Offices" [5]

"EPA has sent a number of political officials to its regional offices, including a former top aide to Administrator Michael Regan."

Source: E&E News [6], 02/02/2022

"NPS Employees Face A Worsening Housing Crunch As Prices Soar" [7]

"Park superintendents across the country these days find themselves keeping close tabs on the real estate market."

Source: E&E News [8], 02/02/2022

Illegal Overfishing By Chinese Trawlers Leaves Sierra Leone ‘Starving’ [9]

"As illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless".

Source: Guardian [10], 02/02/2022

All Coral Will Suffer Severe Bleaching When Heating Hits 1.5C: Study [11]

"Almost no corals on the planet will escape severe bleaching once global heating reaches 1.5C, according to a new study of the world’s reefs."

Source: Guardian [12], 02/02/2022

"Va. Senate Panel Snubs Trump EPA Chief for Youngkin’s Cabinet" [13]

"A state Senate committee on Tuesday rejected former Trump administration official Andrew Wheeler for Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s Cabinet — a rare snub that is not likely to end the Republican governor’s efforts to install Wheeler as secretary of natural and historic resources."

Source: Washington Post [14], 02/02/2022

"Manchin, Key Dem, Says Build Back Better Bill Is ‘Dead’" [15]

"Sen. Joe Manchin declared Tuesday that President Joe Biden’s vast social and environment bill is “dead,” using his strongest language to date to underscore that any revival of Democrats’ top domestic priorities would have to arise from negotiations that are now moribund."

Source: AP [16], 02/02/2022

"Groundhogs, Out From the Scientific Shadows" [17]

"New research aims to shed light on the social habits of the popular, but often misunderstood, animal."

"FALMOUTH, Maine — Groundhog Day may be a tongue-in-cheek holiday, but it remains the one day earmarked in the United States for an animal: Marmota monax, the largest and most widely distributed of the marmot genus, found munching on flowering plants — or, at this time of year, snuggling underground — from Alabama to Alaska.

Source: NYTimes [18], 02/01/2022

Beavers Are Flooding the Warming Alaskan Arctic, Threatening Fish [19]

"A thawing of permafrost in beaver-built wetlands can release vast stores of greenhouse gases to warm the climate, but Native peoples are already feeling the rodent’s impacts." "When the beavers came to streams near the Alaskan village of Venetie, the fish disappeared."

Source: Inside Climate News [20], 02/01/2022

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