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New York City Is Sinking Due To Weight Of Its Skyscrapers: Research [1]

"New York City is sinking in part due to the extraordinary weight of its vertiginous buildings, worsening the flooding threat posed to the metropolis from the rising seas, new research has found."

Source: Guardian [2], 05/22/2023

"Rice Gets Reimagined, From the Mississippi to the Mekong" [3]

"Rice is in trouble as the Earth heats up, threatening the food and livelihood of billions of people. Sometimes there’s not enough rain when seedlings need water, or too much when the plants need to keep their heads above water. As the sea intrudes, salt ruins the crop. As nights warm, yields go down."

Source: NYTimes [4], 05/22/2023

Local U.S. Planners Are Lowballing Their Estimates of Coastal Flooding [5]

"A study finds that more than half of American communities are basing their long-term preparations for coastal flooding on numbers that underestimate future sea level rise."

Source: Inside Climate News [6], 05/22/2023

Russia Targets Greenpeace In Crackdown On Dissent" [7]

"The Russian branch of the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday announced it would close after the authorities declared Greenpeace International to be an undesirable organization."

Source: AP [8], 05/22/2023

Canada Wildfire Smoke Prompts Air Quality Alerts in Colorado, Montana [9]

"Smoke from dozens of raging wildfires in western Canada has drifted south into the United States and prompted the states of Colorado and Montana to issue air quality alerts."

Source: AP [10], 05/22/2023

"The Bat Lands: The Next Pandemic May Come From Bats" [11]

"Humanity is ramping up the risk of global health disasters by intruding deep into the world’s bat habitats, breeding grounds for deadly viruses."

Source: Reuters [12], 05/22/2023

"Most Teachers Support Teaching Students About Climate Change, Survey Finds" [13]

"Kids today will face a future with more severe droughts, stronger storms, and rising sea levels. Yet many schools are not preparing students for the climate of tomorrow."

Source: Yale Climate Connections [14], 05/19/2023

Judge Won't Shut Down Pipeline, Pleads With Wisconsin Tribe To Negotiate [15]

"A federal judge said Thursday he is unlikely to force an energy company to shut down an oil pipeline in northern Wisconsin, despite arguments from a Native American tribe that the line is at immediate risk of being exposed by erosion and rupturing on reservation land."

Source: AP [16], 05/19/2023

"Colombia's Climate Migration Draft Law Hailed As 'Life Saver'" [17]

"People in Colombia who are uprooted within the country due to the impacts of climate change could receive legal recognition under a landmark climate migrant bill that this week cleared the first hurdle in Congress."

Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn. [18], 05/19/2023

"Green Banks Spring Up in States, Spurred by $27 Billion Fund" [19]

"The EPA’s new $27 billion clean energy fund is fueling interest in both red and blue states to launch their own green banks to leverage investment in solar, wind, and energy efficiency projects."

Source: Bloomberg Environment [20], 05/19/2023

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