An "Extreme Heat Belt" Will Soon Emerge In The U.S., Study Warns
"An 'extreme heat belt' will impact over 100 million Americans in the next 30 years, study finds".
Source: CNN, 08/17/2022
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Why Scientists Have Pumped A Potent Greenhouse Gas Into Public Streams
"A massive ecological study that's happening across the United States, and which is designed to track the impact of long-term changes like a warming climate, is deliberately releasing a highly potent and persistent greenhouse gas in national parks and forests."
Source: NPR, 08/16/2022
"Rise In Extreme Heat Will Hit Minority Communities Hardest"
"Thirty years after Hurricane Andrew demolished Homestead, Fla., another disaster looms."
Source: E&E News, 08/16/2022
"Hot Nights: US in July Sets New Record For Overnight Warmth"
"Talk about hot nights, America got some for the history books last month. The continental United States in July set a record for overnight warmth, providing little relief from the day’s sizzling heat for people, animals, plants and the electric grid, meteorologists said."
Source: AP, 08/15/2022
"The Biggest Climate Ghouls of the 2022 Midterms"
"November's ballots include some people spouting disturbing views on climate science."
Source: Earther, 08/11/2022
"As Temperatures Rise, Industries Fight Heat Safeguards For Workers"
"Extreme heat is making work more dangerous. But beyond the West Coast, the fight to protect workers faces head winds."
Source: Washington Post, 08/10/2022
"Billions in Feds’ Spending on Megafire Risks Seen as Misdirected"
"Congress is spending billions to save communities from Western megafires by thinning large swaths of forests even as scientists say climate change-driven drought and heat are too extreme for it to work. The money would be better spent thinning woods closest to homes and shoring up houses against embers raining down from firestorms, according to academics, former agency officials, and others who study wildfires."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/09/2022
"How Young Californians Cope To Beat Climate Anxiety and Doom"
"When he was 6 years old, Sim Bilal began to have nightmares of floods pouring through his South Los Angeles home."
Source: LA Times, 08/09/2022
"Study Connects Climate Hazards To 58% Of Infectious Diseases"
"Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says."
Source: AP, 08/09/2022
"EPA Announces Flights To Look For Methane In Permian Basin"
"The Environmental Protection Agency says it will conduct helicopter overflights to look for methane “super emitters” in the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region."
Source: AP, 08/04/2022
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