Climate Change

"After Disasters, AmeriCorps Was Everywhere. What Happens When It’s Gone?"

"After devastating fires tore through Los Angeles in January, a crew of more than 300 young people showed up to help, many of them members of the national service program AmeriCorps." "Elon Musk's DOGE has gutted the 30-year-old national service agency."

Source: Grist, 05/16/2025

"Summer-Like Slug Of Heat Pushes Across Much Of North America"

"One of the most eye-popping late-spring heat waves on record made its way from the Pacific Coast into the center of North America this week. Numerous towns and cities have notched their hottest days and/or warmest nights ever experienced this early in the season, and some have soared to readings unheard of anytime before June."

Source: Yale Climate Connections, 05/16/2025

"An Effort to Kill Off Lawsuits Against Oil Giants Is Gaining Steam"

"The Trump administration has declared litigation to hold oil companies responsible for climate change a threat to the American economy and has taken aggressive steps to fight it." "Over the past decade, some three dozen states and local governments have sued the biggest oil companies in the world, arguing that the industry hid what it knew about the dangers of global warming."

Source: NYTimes, 05/16/2025

"Trump’s ‘Fear Factor’: Scientists Go Silent As Funding Cuts Escalate"

"In February, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump was inaugurated, Rebekah Tromble launched a program to advise scientists and journalists targeted for intimidation and harassment. But she announced it quietly, fearing the very kind of attacks the initiative was meant to counter."

Source: Science, 05/15/2025

NOAA Seeks To Reassign Employees To Understaffed Weather Service Offices

"The Trump administration is seeking to reassign other employees to “critically understaffed” offices in the National Weather Service (NWS), according to an internal document. The move to reassign these other employees comes after the administration fired hundreds of people at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), including some staff at the NWS."

Source: The Hill, 05/15/2025

Georgia’s Beloved Shrimp Industry Grapples With Disease And Foreign Imports

"The tart saltwater odor of fresh-caught shrimp hangs thick in the air, stronger even than the earthier scent of marsh and mud, at Bubba Gumbo’s and BG Seafood, a dockside restaurant and seafood market on Tybee Island, Georgia. This is one of many restaurants that dot the creeks and rivers snaking like veins through the coastal Georgia marshes. They run the gamut from the upscale and trendy to more bare-bones joints like this one, adjacent to a working dock."

Source: Grist/WABE, 05/14/2025

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