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Coequal Catastrophes — Quammen on Climate Change, Extinction and Epidemics

Biodiversity loss can seem like a remote and abstract problem that pales in comparison to climate worries. But award-winning author David Quammen sees them as coequal threats, along with emerging diseases, and encourages journalists to illuminate the relationships between them. His advice includes getting out of big cities to see the extinction crisis firsthand and weaving humor and hope into your writing.

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House Backs Measure To Overturn Biden Auto Emissions Rule That Promotes EVs

"The GOP-controlled House approved a resolution Friday that would overturn a new Biden administration rule on automobile emissions that Republicans say would force Americans to buy unaffordable electric vehicles they don’t want."

Source: AP, 09/23/2024

Hotter Summers Are Making High School Football A Fatal Game For Some Players

"Soon after Ashanta Laster reached the hospital, she was ushered into the emergency room where she saw doctors performing CPR on her teenage son. Laster had gotten a call that 17-year-old Phillip Laster Jr., a lineman who played for a top Mississippi high school, had collapsed on the field during an August 2022 practice."

Source: AP, 09/23/2024

"New Global Climate 'Loss And Damage' Fund Names First Director"

"The board of The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage to help countries ravaged by climate-driven disasters named Senegalese finance specialist Ibrahima Cheikh Diong as its first director, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change announced on Saturday."

Source: Reuters, 09/23/2024

DOE Promised Yakama Nation a $32 Million Solar Grant. Bureaucracy Stalls It

"The Department of Energy gave the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation what seemed like very good news earlier this year: It had won a $32 million grant for a novel solar energy project in Washington state. ... Months after announcing the grant, the same department is making it nearly impossible for the tribal nation to access the money."

Source: OPB/ProPublica, 09/23/2024

Americans Most Affected By Climate Crisis Head To Midwest

"Unbearable heat and worsening storms prompt residents of states such as Florida to move elsewhere"

"As a Rust belt town of 65,000 people in eastern Indiana, Muncie may not be the most exciting place in the world. It doesn’t have beaches, year-round warm weather or much in the way of cosmopolitanism.

But for Laura Rivas, a cybersecurity engineer formerly of North Miami Beach, Florida, Muncie is perfect.

Before she moved there in 2022, life in Florida had become unbearable.

Source: Guardian, 09/23/2024

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