Not Just Humans — Scientists Turn To Vaccines To Save Endangered Species
"Scientists are now increasingly looking at animal vaccines as a means of saving wild populations of threatened species."
Source: Mongabay, 08/24/2021
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"Climate Crisis Made Deadly German Floods ‘Up To 9 Times More Likely’"
"The record-shattering rainfall that caused deadly flooding across Germany and Belgium in July was made up to nine times more likely by the climate crisis, according to research."
Source: Guardian, 08/24/2021"Heat Kills. This Underfunded Program Could Help."
"Heat kills in the big city. So does lack of air conditioning. Of the roughly 70 New Yorkers directly killed by heat exposure in their own homes over the past decade, the majority — some 80% — did not own air conditioners, and those who did weren’t running them when they died."
Source: E&E News, 08/24/2021"Megadrought to Pit Fish Lives Against Human Needs in U.S. West"
"Water cuts aimed at farmers amid the West’s megadrought have set the stage for bitter legal and political fights over one of the most overlooked water uses—the right of water to remain in streams to sustain fish and endangered species, lawyers say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/24/2021"Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines"
"As climate change brings longer, more destructive fire seasons, the wine industry scrambles to protect vineyards from the dreaded taint of smoke."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/24/2021"13 New Books About Pollution — and How to Fight It"
"Pesticides, sewage, mining waste, air pollution and trash — these new books address the toxic elements in our society."
Source: The Revelator, 08/24/2021"22 Dead, Many Missing After 17 Inches Of Rain In Tennessee"
"At least 22 people were killed and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle Tennessee."
Source: AP, 08/23/2021Democrats Spar This Week Over $3.5 Trillion Budget Plan
"House Democrats are preparing to take the first steps Monday toward adopting a roughly $3.5 trillion spending plan that would enable sweeping changes to the nation’s health care, education and tax laws, but new rifts among party lawmakers threaten to stall the package’s swift advance."
Source: Washington Post, 08/23/2021"Biden Backs End To Wolf Protections But Hunting Worries Grow"
"President Joe Biden’s administration is sticking by the decision under former President Donald Trump to lift protections for gray wolves across most of the U.S. But a top federal wildlife official on Friday told The Associated Press there is growing concern over aggressive wolf hunting seasons adopted for the predators in the western Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains."
Source: AP, 08/23/2021In Fire Scorched California, Town Aims To Buy At-Risk Properties
Paradise, California has "a new, ambitious town effort to identify the most high risk properties in the burn area and, if there are willing sellers, buy them and turn them into fire resistant green spaces."
Source: NPR, 08/23/2021What Will Happen To Millions Of Retired Electric Car Batteries?
"A tsunami of electric vehicles is expected in rich countries, as car companies and governments pledge to ramp up their numbers – there are predicted be 145m on the roads by 2030. But while electric vehicles can play an important role in reducing emissions, they also contain a potential environmental timebomb: their batteries."
Source: Guardian, 08/23/2021"Denser Cities Could Be A Climate Boon – But Nimbyism Stands In The Way"
"Drawing people into cities could cut emissions and combat housing crises. But even progressives are hard to convince".
Source: Guardian, 08/23/2021"The Methane Hunters"
"Frackers in America’s largest oil field are letting massive amounts of natural gas spill into the atmosphere. Scientists and activists are trying to find the leaks and get them plugged before they cook the planet further."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/23/2021Rain Fell On The Peak Of Greenland Ice Sheet For First Time In History"
"Greenland saw rain at the highest point of its ice sheet for the first time since scientists have been making observations there, the latest signal of how climate change is affecting every part of the planet."
Source: NPR, 08/23/2021"Wilderness Closed: BWCA Cleared Of Visitors Amid Increased Fire Danger"
"It’s been a hectic few days for Clare Shirley, who owns Sawbill Canoe Outfitters north of Tofte, Minn. Her business is on Sawbill Lake — a popular Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness entry point about four miles from the Whelp and John Ek fires burning inside the BWCA."
Source: MPR, 08/23/2021
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