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"After the Storm, the Mold: Warming Is Worsening Another Costly Disaster" [1]

"Mold in homes is a costly crisis that often accompanies hurricanes and flooding, and climate change is amplifying the rain that feeds outbreaks."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NYTimes [9], 10/07/2022
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US Purchases $290 Million Worth Of Drug For Use In Nuclear Emergencies [10]

"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it has spent $290 million on a drug to treat radiation sickness in the event of a nuclear emergency."

Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Government [11]
Nuclear Power & Radiation [12]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: The Hill [13], 10/07/2022
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California Spends Billions Rebuilding Burned Towns. Should It Quit? [14]

"Before the Dixie fire came barreling through the Sierra Nevada last year, leveling everything here but a few houses, businesses and a school, this was a charming — if dying — Gold Rush-era town that about 800 people called home. Now, much of the charm is gone along with most of the residents, replaced by the skeletal remains of conifer trees and the deathly silence of block after empty block."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Politics [15]
Forests [16]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
California [17]
Source: LA Times [18], 10/07/2022
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"Climate Change Made Summer Hotter and Drier Worldwide, Study Finds" [19]

"Human-caused global warming has made severe droughts like the ones this summer in Europe, North America and China at least 20 times as likely to occur as they would have been more than a century ago, scientists said Wednesday. It’s the latest evidence of how climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is imperiling food, water and electricity supplies around the world."

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
International [21]
Source: NYTimes [22], 10/07/2022
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"Prolonged Drought Brings Famine, Death and Fear to Somalia" [23]

"DOLLOW, Somalia — A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Food [24]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Africa [25]
Source: AP [26], 10/07/2022
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"Florida Leaders Rejected Major Climate Laws. Now They’re Seeking Storm Aid." [27]

"Hurricane Ian’s wrath made clear that Florida faces some of the most severe consequences of climate change anywhere in the country. But the state’s top elected leaders opposed the most significant climate legislation to pass Congress — laws to help fortify states against, and recover from, climate disasters, and confront their underlying cause: the burning of fossil fuels."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Justice [28]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NYTimes [30], 10/06/2022
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"Florida’s Waterways Contaminated Post-Ian, Posing Health Risks" [31]

"Sewage pipelines overflowed into waterways. Toppled portable toilets spilled into floodwaters. Gasoline and motor oil leaked from partly submerged vehicles. Downed trees have started decomposing on waterlogged roads."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Pollution [5]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [32]
Source: Washington Post [33], 10/06/2022
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Imperial Valley Ca. Farmers Awash In Colorado River Water, Even In Drought [34]

"A few hundred farms in the southern tip of California, along the Mexican border, may hold the key to saving the drought-plagued Colorado River from collapse."

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Environmental Politics [15]
Laws & Regulations [29]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Source: NPR [35], 10/05/2022
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"The Monsoon Is Becoming More Extreme" [36]

"South Asia’s monsoon is inextricably linked, culturally and economically, to much of Asia. Climate change is making it increasingly violent and erratic."

Agriculture [20]
Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
International [21]
Source: NYTimes [37], 10/05/2022
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After Fiona, Magdalen Islanders Say They're On 'Front Line' Of Climate Change [38]

"Isabelle Cormier spent the days after post-tropical storm Fiona picking through what could be salvaged of her family's 40-year-old cottage."

Climate Change [2]
Disasters [3]
Water & Oceans [6]
Public [7]
Canada [39]
Source: CBC News [40], 10/04/2022
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