As Climate Shocks Multiply, Designers Seek Disaster-Proof Homes
"The homebuilding industry has been slow to adopt changes that can better protect against extreme weather. Some architects are showing what’s possible."
Source: NYTimes, 07/18/2023
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"The Great Plains: Bringing Back an ‘American Serengeti’"
"Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife."
Source: The Revelator, 07/18/2023"US Weather: Flash Floods In The Northeast, Heatwave Intensifies"
"An extreme heatwave peaked in the western United States on Sunday, with temperatures reaching 128 Fahrenheit (53 Celsius) in the California desert, while flash flooding continued to menace the Northeast, killing at least five people."
Source: Reuters, 07/17/2023The US and China Are Restarting Climate Talks: Here’s Where Things Stand
"John Kerry travels to Beijing for three days of talks, as the world’s two biggest economies, and two biggest polluters, try to cooperate on climate action."
Source: NYTimes, 07/17/2023AAA Follows Farmers In Limiting Coverage In Florida, Citing Disaster Threat
"AAA will not renew home and car insurance for some of its policyholders in Florida, citing increased natural disaster risk that it says makes the policies not worth providing."
Source: The Hill, 07/17/2023"Climate Aid, War Fallout Feature At Berlin Climate Talks"
"Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin to discuss how to stay focused on fighting the increasing impacts of climate change while the world reels from the economic fallout of the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
Source: AP, 07/17/2023"Grid Transformer Supply Crunch Threatens Clean Energy Plans"
"Long lead times for distribution transformers have emerged in recent months as a bottleneck that threatens progress toward meeting climate goals and upgrading the country’s power grid, industry leaders and energy officials said."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 07/17/2023"How A Saudi Firm Tapped A Gusher Of Water In Drought-Stricken Arizona"
"For nearly a decade, the state of Arizona has leased this rural terrain west of Phoenix to a Saudi-owned company, allowing it to pump all the water it needs to grow the alfalfa hay — a crop it exports to feed the kingdom’s dairy cows. And, for years, the state did not know how much water the company was consuming."
Source: Washington Post, 07/17/2023Rice Crops Threatened By El Nino After Grain Supplies Were Disrupted By War
"Warmer, drier weather because of an earlier than usual El Nino is expected to hamper rice production across Asia, hitting global food security in a world still reeling from the impacts of the war in Ukraine."
Source: AP, 07/17/2023"States Struggle To Plug Oil Wells With Infrastructure Law Cash"
"Across Schuyler Wight’s two West Texas ranches, about 250 abandoned oil and gas wells sit open and unused, creating a link from the dusty surface to smelly chemicals and gases thousands of feet underground."
Source: E&E News, 07/17/2023"The Problem with Boating’s High-Fiberglass Diet"
"Fiberglass revolutionized boating, but decades later, discarded and degraded vessels are adding to marine pollution."
Source: Hakai, 07/17/2023"Bringing Back Monarchs One Ranch at a Time"
"When he was growing up in the coastal California village of Bolinas in the 1980s, Ole Schell remembers, the monarchs that returned each fall to their overwintering sites seemed 'endless.'"
Source: Sierra, 07/17/2023Southwest's Enduring Heat Wave Is Expected To Intensify Over The Weekend
"An expansive heatwave that's been baking the southern United States for nearly two weeks is only expected to intensify as the weekend approaches, forecasters say. Heat advisories and warnings are still in place from Florida to Arizona, impacting more than 111 million people, according to a count from the Associated Press."
Source: NPR, 07/14/2023"Republicans Assail Kerry’s Climate Strategy as He Prepares for China Talks"
"Republicans on Thursday accused John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate, of being soft on China as he prepared to travel to Beijing to restart discussions between the world’s top two polluting countries."
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2023"Leaks Can Make Natural Gas as Bad for the Climate as Coal, a Study Says"
"Natural gas, long seen as a cleaner alternative to coal and an important tool in the fight to slow global warming, can be just as harmful to the climate, a new study has concluded, unless companies can all but eliminate the leaks that plague its use."
Source: NYTimes, 07/14/2023
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