"Books For Adapting Cities To Climate Change"
"Equitable urban design can help these major population centers respond to and mitigate climate change"
Source: Yale Climate Connections, 07/22/2024
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"Billions in US Funding Boosts Lithium Mining, Stressing Water Supplies"
"Add lithium to water in a chemistry lab, and you’ll get an incendiary reaction. The same might be said of opening new lithium mines: The prospect can spark conflicts when it comes to water."
Source: Floodlight/Energy News Network, 07/22/2024
UK: "UN Expert Condemns Lengthy Just Stop Oil Sentences"
"The lengthy multi-year sentences handed to Just Stop Oil activists are “not acceptable in a democracy”, a UN special rapporteur has said, as the government faced growing pressure to reverse the previous administration’s “hardline anti-protest” approach."
Source: Guardian, 07/22/2024
"Electric Vehicles Strain the Automaker-Big Oil Alliance"
"In the clean car battle, the oil industry leans on friends—including Donald Trump—to keep gasoline transport alive, while carmakers steer toward an EV future."
Source: Inside Climate News, 07/22/2024
"Could Robot Weedkillers Replace The Need For Pesticides?"
"On a sweltering summer day in central Kansas, farm fields shimmer in the heat as Clint Brauer watches a team of bright yellow robots churn up and down the rows, tirelessly slicing away any weeds that stand in their way while avoiding the growing crops."
Source: Guardian, 07/22/2024
Millions Live Near Oil And Gas Wells That Are In The Path Of Wildfires
"As firefighters continue to battle more than two dozen active wildfires in California, new research has found that millions of people are living in close proximity to oil and gas wells that are in the potential path of flames."
Source: LA Times, 07/22/2024
Texas Heat Deaths Climb After Beryl Left Millions Without Power For Days
"As the temperature soared in the Houston-area home Janet Jarrett shared with her sister after losing electricity in Hurricane Beryl, she did everything she could to keep her 64-year-old sibling cool."
Source: LA Times, 07/22/2024
Greenhouse Heat: Touted Climate Solution Threatens Agricultural Workers
"To harvest tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, to clip herbs, to prune and propagate succulents, people work in oppressive heat and humidity. Some wring out shirts soaked with sweat. Some contend with headaches, dizziness and nausea. Some collapse. Some hover on the brink of exhaustion, backs straining, breathing heavily."
Source: AP, 07/22/2024
"What Would A Harris Presidency Mean For The Climate?"
"A look at Kamala Harris' record on clean energy, climate diplomacy, and environmental justice in California, the Senate, and the White House."
Source: Grist, 07/22/2024
DOI Names Former Site Of Texas ‘Mexican School’ As Newest National Park
"The Biden administration has named the site of the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, a segregated school for Mexican American children, as the country’s newest national park, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday."
Source: The Hill, 07/19/2024
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