"COVID Has Killed About As Many Americans As The 1918-19 Flu"
"COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did — approximately 675,000."
Source: AP, 09/21/2021
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"Interior Secretary Signs Montana Tribes Water Rights Compact"
"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland signed the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes water rights compact on Friday, settling a decades-long battle over thousands of individual water rights in Montana and on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The deal also created a $1.9 billion trust to settle claims and refurbish the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project in Montana."
Source: AP, 09/21/2021"Why Saving World’s Peatlands Can Help Stabilize the Climate"
"Peatlands make up 3 percent of the earth’s landscape, yet absorb large amounts of carbon and harbor surprising biodiversity. Although peat bogs and fens are under increasing environmental threat, efforts to protect and restore these ecosystems are gathering momentum."
Source: YaleE360, 09/21/2021Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft U.S. Climate Plan
"Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate energy panel and earned half a million dollars last year from coal production, is preparing to remake President Biden’s climate legislation in a way that tosses a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry — despite urgent calls from scientists that countries need to quickly pivot away from coal, gas and oil to avoid a climate catastrophe."
Source: NYTimes, 09/21/2021"New Evidence of Corruption at EPA Chemicals Division"
"Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency have provided The Intercept with new information showing that senior staff have made chemicals appear safer — sometimes dodging restrictions on their use — by minimizing the estimates of how much is released into the environment."
Source: The Intercept, 09/21/2021Extinction of Indigenous Languages Harms Knowledge Of Medicinal Plants
"A study at the University of Zurich in Switzerland shows that a large proportion of existing medicinal plant knowledge is linked to threatened Indigenous languages. In a regional study on the Amazon, New Guinea and North America, researchers concluded that 75% of medicinal plant uses are known in only one language."
Source: Mongabay, 09/21/2021"UN Warns of ‘Catastrophic Pathway’ With Current Climate Pledges"
"The global average temperature will rise 2.7 degrees Celsius by century’s end even if all countries meet their promised emissions cuts, a rise that is likely to worsen extreme wildfires, droughts and floods, the United Nations said in a report on Friday."
Source: NYTimes, 09/20/2021"BLM Returns Headquarters To D.C."
"The Biden administration plans to move the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters back to Washington but will convert the current headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo., into a Western hub with additional staff assigned there, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland told bureau employees today."
Source: E&E News, 09/20/2021Facebook's New Climate Change Misinformation Effort Falls Short: Group
"Facebook’s new effort to combat climate change misinformation falls short of addressing the root of the false claims spreading on the social media platform, an advocacy group said."
Source: The Hill, 09/20/2021"Growing California Wildfire Spares Group Of Giant Sequoias"
"A group of landmark giant sequoias has so far been spared by a blaze sweeping through a California national park, authorities said on Sunday."
Source: Reuters, 09/20/2021"Judge: Construction Can Continue On Most Of $1B Corridor"
"Construction on a 145-mile (233-kilometer) electricity transmission corridor in western Maine can continue while litigation proceeds over a 1-mile section that was leased by the state, a state Supreme Court justice ruled."
Source: AP, 09/20/2021"Romanian Forest Attack Highlights Illegal Logging ‘Scourge’"
"Two journalists and an environmental activist have been beaten up by suspected illegal loggers in a forest in northeastern Romania while making a documentary about illicit deforestation, authorities said Friday."
Source: AP, 09/20/2021"How Can New York City Prepare for the Next Ida? Here’s a To-Do List."
"The recipe sounds simple: Improve drainage. Use plants, tanks and barriers to slow water. But it takes money and cooperation."
Source: NYTimes, 09/20/2021"Drought Tests Centuries-Old Water Traditions In New Mexico"
"At the edge of a sandstone outcropping, Teresa Leger Fernández looks out on the Rio Chama. The river tracks a diverse landscape from the southern edge of the Rocky Mountains through rugged basalt hillsides, layers of volcanic tuff, and the red and yellow cliffs made famous by painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Here marks the genesis of New Mexico’s centuries-old tradition of sharing water through irrigation systems known as acequias."
Source: AP, 09/20/2021"The Unconventional Weapon Against Future Wildfires: Goats"
"Ms. Malmberg, 64, is a goat herder and a pioneer in using the animals to restore fire-ravaged lands to greener pastures and make them less prone to the spread of blazes."
Source: NYTimes, 09/20/2021
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