"Mosquito Season Has Gotten A Month Longer In Some Places"
"As the climate warms, mosquito-swatting season is getting longer in many parts of the country."
Source: YaleE360, 08/15/2023
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"Uranium Hunters in US West Face Partial Ban, Pollution Fears"
"Five weeks before President Joe Biden announced a historic new ban on new uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Sarana Riggs approached the barbed-wire fence surrounding an inactive mine in an Arizona national forest, a Geiger counter in her hand."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/15/2023
Mishmash Of How US Heat Deaths Are Counted Complicates Safety Efforts
"Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat this summer when he collapsed in a homeowner’s yard and was taken to a hospital, where he died."
Source: AP, 08/15/2023
Young Activists Win First-Of-Its-Kind Climate Change Trial In Montana
"Young environmental activists scored what may be a groundbreaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development."
Source: AP, 08/15/2023
Bear Known As 'Hank The Tank' To Sanctuary After Breaking Into 21 Homes
"The large female, now called Henrietta, will live out her days at the Wild Animal Refuge in Colorado."
"A female black bear who wildlife authorities say broke into at least 21 California homes has been relocated to an animal sanctuary in Colorado.
Henrietta is now getting used to her new digs at the Wild Animal Refuge near Springfield, according to a Facebook post shared Friday.
Source: HuffPost, 08/14/2023
‘Circular Economy’ Went From Environmentalist Dream To Marketing Buzzword
"At a conference in Seattle this summer, Coca-Cola set up shop in an exhibition hall to show off one of its most recent sustainability initiatives. A six-foot-tall interactive jukebox invited passersby to listen to “recycled records” — seven audio tracks that, according to Coca-Cola, represent the world’s first album made with recordings of the plastic recycling process."
Source: Grist, 08/14/2023
"South Korean Activists Protest Against Fukushima Water Discharge"
"Hundreds of South Korean activists gathered in central Seoul on Saturday to protest against Japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean."
Source: Reuters, 08/14/2023
"Playing Matchmaker for Corals"
"Along Florida’s coast, multiple coral restoration projects have hundreds of people painstakingly attaching thousands of coral fragments to acres of endangered reefs. These efforts are yielding impressive results, but they won’t be enough — especially now, in the face of unprecedented high sea temperatures, as some projects scramble to rescue corals from in-water nurseries."
Source: The Revelator, 08/14/2023
"We're In For An 'Above Average' Atlantic Hurricane Season, NOAA Predicts"
"The rest of the 2023 hurricane season will be busier than previously thought, according to new projections from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)."
Source: Earther, 08/14/2023
"EPA Launches Civil Rights Probe Over Calif. Water Fight"
"EPA is probing California’s water department over accusations of discrimination against Native tribes and people of color, launching a significant environmental justice investigation that could affect how the state oversees water."
Source: E&E News, 08/14/2023
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