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"Mexico Elects Climate Scientist As First Female President" [1]

"Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected Mexico’s first ever female president in a historic result. Dr Sheinbaum, 61, a climate scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, is a member of the leftist Morena party and the handpicked successor to populist Andres Manuel López Obrador."

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Source: Telegraph [7], 06/03/2024
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AP Analysis Finds 2023 Set Record For US Heat Deaths [8]

"David Hom suffered from diabetes and felt nauseated before he went out to hang his laundry in 108-degree weather, another day in Arizona’s record-smashing, unrelenting July heat wave. His family found the 73-year-old lying on the ground, his lower body burned. Hom died at the hospital, his core body temperature at 107 degrees."

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Public [5]
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International [12]
Source: AP [13], 06/03/2024
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"Trump Suggests To Oil Donors He Will Fast-Track Their Merger Deals" [14]

"Former president Donald Trump suggested to oil executive donors this month that he could ease the Federal Trade Commission’s scrutiny of their industry’s mergers and acquisitions if he returns to the White House, according to five people familiar with the matter."

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Pollution [18]
Public [5]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Washington Post [19], 06/03/2024
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New HeatRisk Data Site Helps Warn on Health Threats [20]

As global warming worsens heat-related illnesses, U.S. government agencies have refined a data tool whose greatest value may be to warn people about the extreme heat events that can send them to the emergency room or worse. The latest Reporter’s Toolbox explores the improved HeatRisk site and how its combination of climate and medical considerations refocuses attention on the vulnerable.

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"The Enduring Influence Of “The Day After Tomorrow,” 20 Years Later" [26]

"It has been 20 years since we first saw the paleo-climatologist Jack Hall, played by Dennis Quaid, standing at a railing overlooking a command center at NOAA and asking his colleagues the question that baffled them: “What about the North Atlantic Current?”"

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National (U.S.) [11]
Source: Yale Climate Connections [27], 05/31/2024
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Texas’ First Flood Plan Estimates 5 Million Live In Flood-Prone Areas [28]

"More than 5 million Texans, or one in six people in the state, live or work in an area susceptible to flooding, according to a draft of the state’s first-ever flood plan."

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Source: Texas Tribune [31], 05/31/2024
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Extreme Weather. Few Vaccines. Africa’s Cholera Crisis Is Worse Than Ever [32]

"Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent’s worst outbreaks of cholera."

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Africa [33]
Source: AP [34], 05/31/2024
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Calif. Backs Big Utilities, Trims Incentives For Community Solar Projects [35]

"California’s utilities regulator today adopted new rules for community solar projects, despite warnings from clean energy advocates that the move will actually undercut efforts to expand solar power options for low-income customers."

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Environmental Justice [36]
Environmental Politics [3]
Laws & Regulations [17]
Public [5]
California [37]
Source: CalMatters [38], 05/31/2024
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"The Climate Refugee Crisis Is Here" [39]

"Catastrophic flooding in southern Brazil has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Many say they won’t go back."

Climate Change [2]
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People & Population [25]
Water & Oceans [29]
Public [5]
International [12]
Source: Washington Post [40], 05/31/2024
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June 12, 2024

Yale Center for Environmental Communication: Is Climate Change to Blame? [41]

After an extreme weather event, people often ask: is climate change to blame? Join the Yale Center for Environmental Communication for an insightful discussion on attribution science — a field focused on determining the influence of human-induced climate change on extreme weather events. Noon - 1 pm ET.

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