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"How Billions in Infrastructure Funding Could Worsen Global Warming" [1]

"Highway expansions tend to bring more greenhouse gas emissions. A few states are trying to change that dynamic, but it won’t be easy."

Source: NYTimes [2], 02/10/2022

"Millions Facing Severe Hunger In Horn Of Africa - U.N. Food Agency" [3]

"The U.N. World Food Programme said on Tuesday that 13 million people across the Horn of Africa face severe hunger, calling for immediate assistance to avoid a repeat of a famine a decade ago that killed hundreds of thousands of people."

Source: Reuters [4], 02/10/2022

Award Ceremony: AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards [5]

Join the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards program at Noon EST for a ceremony honoring our 2021 award winners. It will be held in conjunction with the virtual 2022 AAAS Annual Meeting, and you must sign in as a meeting registrant (it's free to attend the award ceremony). Please register in advance.

FEMA Rolls Out Text App To Help Americans Find Shelters During Disasters [6]

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has updated its texting feature to help Americans find open shelters during disasters."

Source: The Hill [7], 02/09/2022

"Why This Could Be a Critical Year for Electric Cars" [8]

"Sales of cars powered solely by batteries surged in the United States, Europe and China last year, while deliveries of fossil fuel vehicles were stagnant. Demand for electric cars is so strong that manufacturers are requiring buyers to put down deposits months in advance. And some models are effectively sold out for the next two years."

Source: NYTimes [9], 02/09/2022

Activists Urge the IEA to Remove Paywalls Around its Data [10]

"A growing number of activists and academics are calling on the International Energy Agency to make its data free and available to everyone, ahead of the agency’s biennial board meeting in Paris next month."

Source: Inside Climate News [11], 02/09/2022

Is Calif. Fight Against Rooftop Solar Utility-Funded Fake Grassroots? [12]

"Over 70 member organizations in the coalition received charitable contributions in 2020 worth $1.67 million from big California utilities that see solar as the competition."

Source: Inside Climate News [13], 02/09/2022

Mountain Glaciers May Have Less Ice Than Estimated, Straining Supply [14]

"Glaciers could be tapped dry sooner than expected as climate change melts ice fields faster".

Source: Washington Post [15], 02/09/2022

World Leaders Descend On France For Ocean Summit [16]

"Up to 40 world leaders are due to make “ambitious and concrete commitments” towards combating illegal fishing, decarbonising shipping and reducing plastic pollution at what is billed as the first high-level summit dedicated to the ocean."

Source: Guardian [17], 02/09/2022

"For The First Time In Generations, Snoqualmie Tribe Has Land" [18]

"The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has purchased thousands of acres of ancestral forestlands in east King County, land that holds special meaning to the people who have been without a reservation for generations."

Source: KUOW [19], 02/09/2022

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