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Climate Crisis
Recycling Solar Panels is the Future of Sustainability: One Company is ahead of the Game

Recycling Solar Panels is the Future of Sustainability: One Company is ahead of the Game

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By Hope O’Brien | ( Cronkite News ) – YUMA – Tucked between warehouses near the airport, We Recycle Solar is repurposing, reusing and recycling the growing supply of panels that have passed their expected lifespan of 30 years. Through multiple processes, the company refurbishes salvageable solar photovoltaic panels and breaks down worn-out panels into […]

Climate Crisis
Southwest Megadrought: Climate-Driven Drop in Lake Powell could Leave Residents with no Water or Electricity

Southwest Megadrought: Climate-Driven Drop in Lake Powell could Leave Residents with no Water or Electricity

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By Autriya Maneshni (Cronkite News ) PHOENIX – Water levels on Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the U.S., have dropped below 3,525 feet – a critical level that threatens water supplies and hydroelectricity for millions of people. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation had predicted the threshold wouldn’t be reached until August. The reservoir’s […]

Climate Crisis
Scorching the Earth:  When Big Oil and Gas Flare, the Methane traps 80x as Much Heat as C02

Scorching the Earth: When Big Oil and Gas Flare, the Methane traps 80x as Much Heat as C02

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By Nicole Sadek, Zoha Tunio and Sarah Hunt | Howard Center for Investigative Journalism< When companies flare, they do more than burn natural gas. They burn money ( Cronkite News ) – Every year, U.S. oil and gas companies set fire to billions of cubic feet of natural gas and directly vent an additional unknown […]

Climate Crisis
Climate data reveals a hottest, driest Southwest in 1,200 Years, with more extremes possible

Climate data reveals a hottest, driest Southwest in 1,200 Years, with more extremes possible

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By Alexia Stanbridge | – ( Cronkite News ) – WASHINGTON – The megadrought that’s gripped Arizona and the Southwest since 2000 is the driest in more than 1,200 years, and it is likely to continue for the near future, according to a new report. Those findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, […]

Feminism
Texas’ Abortion Restrictions most Harm Low-Income Patients, Advocates Say

Texas’ Abortion Restrictions most Harm Low-Income Patients, Advocates Say

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By Natasha Yee | – ( Cronkite News ) – PHOENIX – Esmarie stared down at two solid pink lines on the test strip in the small bathroom of her central Texas apartment. The 20-year-old had been uncharacteristically tired and unable to wake up for her fast-food job. She remembered the feeling from her last […]

African-Americans
Asians, other Minorities fear Attacks because of Race, Survey finds

Asians, other Minorities fear Attacks because of Race, Survey finds

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By Breanna Isbell | – ( Cronkite News ) – PHOENIX – One in four Asian households in the U.S. report fearing physical attacks and threats because of their race, according to a recent survey by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The survey, taken Aug. 2 […]

Climate Crisis
90% of California’s Precious Joshua Trees are in Danger from the Climate Emergency

90% of California’s Precious Joshua Trees are in Danger from the Climate Emergency

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By Jude Binkley | – ( Cronkite News) – JOSHUA TREE, Calif. – More than a decade ago, Brendan Cummings was living in this desert town and working to gain federal protections for Arctic polar bears, which can’t survive without the sea ice that’s disappearing because of climate change. A world away from the icy […]

Authoritarianism
House censures defiant Rep. Gosar for Video in Which he Murders AOC, strips Committee Posts

House censures defiant Rep. Gosar for Video in Which he Murders AOC, strips Committee Posts

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By Ulysse Bex | – ( Cronkite News) – WASHINGTON – The House censured Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, Wednesday and stripped him of his committee assignments as punishment for a violent cartoon he posted that appeared to show him killing a liberal Democratic member and threatening the president. Gosar, speaking to the full House, said […]

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: This Southwestern US City has had to Create an Office of Heat Response and Mitigation

Climate Emergency: This Southwestern US City has had to Create an Office of Heat Response and Mitigation

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By Shane Purcell | – ( Cronkite News) – PHOENIX – David Hondula recently got a job he never dreamed of – maybe because it never existed before. He’s the director of the city’s Office of Heat Response &amp; Mitigation, which is touted as the first publicly funded municipal office of its kind. Hondula, who […]

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