Climate Change
Wildfires threaten homes, land across 10 Western states
July 13, 2021Scientists say human-caused climate change and decades of fire suppression that increases fuel loads have aggravated fire conditions across the region.
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Wildfires ravage Western U.S. amid soaring temperatures, drought
July 12, 2021"I think we have to get our communities better prepared for the inevitability of these fires.”
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Great Lakes and St. Lawrence climate change damage bill hits $2 billion
July 7, 2021The hefty bill has mayors begging Congress to include targeted climate change funds in the infrastructure bill.
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Biden aims to restore species protections weakened by Trump
June 9, 2021Habitat destruction drives the biodiversity crisis and what scientists refer to as the Earth's 6th great mass or Anthropocene extinction, driven by human activity. Environmentalists applaud the Biden administration's "America the Beautiful" 30 by 30 Conservation...
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Will partisan politics squelch the strongest water advocate in Southern California?
June 4, 2021Climate change remains a thing and Los Angeles remains governed, as always, with intense political maneuverings surrounding that most vital elixir of them all—water.
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