"In Sweltering South, Climate Change Is Now a Workplace Hazard"
"Workers laboring outdoors in southern states are wrestling with the personal and political consequences of a worsening environment."
Source: NY Times, 08/04/2017
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"Heat Waves Creeping Toward Deadly Heat-Humidity Threshold"
"As global temperatures rise, river valleys in South Asia will face the highest risk of heat waves that reach the limits of human survivability, a new study shows."
Source: InsideClimate News, 08/03/2017
Heat Wave Threatens Seattle, Where Only a Third Have Air-Conditioning
"Much of the country is used to occasional 100-degree days. Seattle, which has had just three in the past 123 years, is not."
Source: NY Times, 08/02/2017
"How The Climate Crisis Could Become A Food Crisis Overnight"
"In the summer of 2010, Russia faced a severe drought, a heat wave and a series of catastrophic wildfires, destroying a third of the country’s wheat harvest. Half a year later, the Arab Spring began."
Source: Washington Post, 07/28/2017
"Climate Change Is Killing Us Right Now"
"The most obvious effect of global warming is not a doomsday scenario. Extreme heat is happening today, and wreaking havoc on vulnerable bodies."
Source: New Republic, 07/21/2017
"Pathway To Peril"
"Scientists worry the next devastating disease could be born where animals and humans mix in a Third World slum – then cross the globe. Zika may have been a preview."
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 07/19/2017
"Massive Copper Mine Tests Trump's Push To Slash Regulation"
"Rio Tinto's proposed Resolution Copper Mine in Arizona would tunnel 7,000 feet underground, where rocks radiate heat from the earth’s molten core. It would suck up enough water to supply a city and leave a crater a mile and a half wide and 1,000 feet deep."
Source: Reuters, 07/14/2017
"Scientists Challenge Magazine Story About ‘Uninhabitable Earth’"
"The temptation to paint a dire picture of climate change, at a time when the Trump administration seems bent on questioning a widely accepted body of climate science and withdrawing from international agreements, is clear. But the picture still has to be plausible and accurate, a number of scientists argued this week in response to a lengthy article in New York Magazine."
Source: Washington Post, 07/13/2017
Coal No Longer Fuels America. But The Legacy — And The Myth — Remain.
"Boone County claims to be the birthplace of America’s coal industry, the rich and abundant black rock discovered in these verdant hills almost three centuries ago. Coal gives name to nearly everything in these parts — the Big and Little Coal rivers, the weekly Coal Valley News, the wondrous Bituminous Coal Heritage Foundation Museum and the West Virginia Coal Festival, celebrating, as we arrive in town, its 24th year."
Source: Washington Post, 07/11/2017
"Four Die From Heat In Sweltering U.S. Southwest: Reports"
"Four people, including a homeless person and two hikers, have died from the record-breaking heat in the U.S. Southwest, media reports said, where triple-digit temperatures have driven residents indoors and canceled airline flights."
Source: Reuters, 06/23/2017
