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"Wind Forecasts Bring New Worries To California Fire Lines"

"Firefighters battling flames in Northern California forests girded Monday for new bouts of windy weather, and a utility warned thousands of customers it might cut their electricity to prevent new fires from igniting if gusts damage power lines."

Source: AP, 08/17/2021

100s Of Workers Died From Heat In Past Decade — And It's Getting Worse

"As the temperature in Grand Island, Neb., soared to 91 degrees that July day in 2018, two dozen farmworkers tunneled for nine hours into a thicket of cornstalks, snapping off tassels while they crossed a sunbaked field that spanned 206 acres — the equivalent of 156 football fields."

Source: NPR, 08/17/2021

"70% Of D.C.’s Streams Have Disappeared. Where Did They Go?"

"Washington D.C is a river city, built at the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia. Once upon a time, it was also a stream city, laced with a vast network of tributaries. Roughly 70% of those historic streams disappeared as the city developed, according to a new District-funded project to document and map the D.C.’s forgotten waterways."

Source: WAMU, 08/16/2021

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