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"Biden Says Climate Change Is Driving Wildfires And Historic Heat Wave" [1]

"President Joe Biden on Wednesday said climate change is driving an increased threat from wildfires as he announced new federal response plans during a meeting with governors from western states facing a record-breaking heat wave."

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Source: CNN [10], 07/01/2021
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"Lytton, B.C., Evacuated As Mayor Says 'The Whole Town Is On Fire'" [11]

"A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings."

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Source: CBC News [15], 07/01/2021
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Police Report Spike In Sudden Deaths As B.C. Heat Wave Continues [16]

"Police in Metro Vancouver say they've responded to more than 100 sudden deaths since an extreme heat wave took hold in the province, and the danger is expected to continue in the face of unrelenting heat still in the forecast over the next several days."

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Source: CBC News [18], 06/30/2021
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"Wildfires Threaten Urban Water Supplies, Long After the Flames Are Out" [19]

"After a forest burns, the resulting erosion can contaminate drinking water supplies for up to a decade."

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Source: NYTimes [21], 06/29/2021
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"Pacific Northwest Bakes Under Once-In-A-Millennium Heat Dome" [22]

"The heat wave baking the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, is of an intensity never recorded by modern humans. By one measure it is more rare than a once in a 1,000 year event — which means that if you could live in this particular spot for 1,000 years, you'd likely only experience a heat dome like this once, if ever."

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Source: CBS News [26], 06/29/2021
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Journalists Team Up To Continue Colleagues’ Work Exposing Mining Risks [27]

Environmental journalists around the world sometimes pay for their work with their freedom, safety or even their lives. The Forbidden Stories network continues the reporting of some of those journalists, and a team there recently produced an award-winning collaboration to investigate troubles at mining giants in Central America, South Asia and East Africa. “The Green Blood Project” in this month’s Inside Story.

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"Miami Tower Collapse Stokes New Fears Of Rising Seas" [39]

"The deadly collapse of a 12-story condominium tower on a barrier island north of Miami Beach early Thursday morning has spurred new calls to survey buildings in areas vulnerable to sea level rise and subsidence, highlighting one of the lesser-known threats of climate change."

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Source: HuffPost [40], 06/28/2021
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"Portland, Oregon, Sets High-Temperature Record And Seattle Comes Close" [41]

"The Pacific Northwest is baking in a record-breaking heat wave, with an all-time high of 108 degrees Fahrenheit reported Saturday in Portland, Oregon. Along the West Coast, more than 20 million people are under a heat warning or advisory, from the Canadian border to the Mexican border."

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Source: CNN [42], 06/28/2021
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America’s First Filipino Settlement Is Vanishing Into The Sea [43]

"ST. BERNARD PARISH, Louisiana — On a cold day in November 2019, two podcasters and a historian boarded a small boat on the edge of Louisiana’s Lake Borgne and drifted into the bayou. They were bound for St. Malo, the first permanent Filipino settlement in the United States. Sailors from the Philippines, known as the Manila Men, settled there in the mid-19th century, decades before the Civil War."

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Source: HuffPost [45], 06/25/2021
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"‘The Water Is Coming’: Florida Keys Faces Stark Reality As Seas Rise" [46]

"Long famed for its spectacular fishing, sprawling coral reefs and literary residents such as Ernest Hemingway, the Florida Keys is now acknowledging a previously unthinkable reality: it faces being overwhelmed by the rising seas and not every home can be saved."

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Source: Guardian [47], 06/25/2021
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