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Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis: Hoover Dam's Lake Mead, Water and Electricity Source for West, May become a Dead Pool

Climate Crisis: Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead, Water and Electricity Source for West, May become a Dead Pool

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By Robert Glennon, University of Arizona | – Journalists reporting on the status and future of the Colorado River are increasingly using the phrase “dead pool.” It sounds ominous. And it is. Dead pool occurs when water in a reservoir drops so low that it can’t flow downstream from the dam. The biggest concerns are […]

Climate Crisis
Climate Change isn’t just making Cyclones worse, it’s making the Floods they cause worse too

Climate Change isn’t just making Cyclones worse, it’s making the Floods they cause worse too

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By Laurence Hawker, University of Bristol; Dann Mitchell, University of Bristol; and Natalie Lord, University of Bristol | – Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events on our planet. Although wind speeds within these storms can reach 270 km/h, the largest loss […]

Climate Crisis
The window of opportunity to address increasing Climate-Driven drought is vanishing

The window of opportunity to address increasing Climate-Driven drought is vanishing

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By Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina | – Chile, Argentina and the American West are in the midst of a decade-long, megadrought — the driest conditions those regions have seen in a century. And many areas in Western Canada and the United States are experiencing extreme drought — a once in 20-year event. Drought makes […]

Climate Crisis
Protecting Biodiversity – and making it Accessible –  has paid off for Costa Rica

Protecting Biodiversity – and making it Accessible – has paid off for Costa Rica

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By Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa, Stanford University and Jeffrey R. Smith

Climate Crisis
Climate Change triggering global Collapse in Insect numbers: Stressed Farmland shows 63% Decline

Climate Change triggering global Collapse in Insect numbers: Stressed Farmland shows 63% Decline

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By Tim Newbold, UCL and Charlie Outhwaite, UCL | – Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to release nutrients into the soil. Flying insects are also key pollinators of many major food crops, including fruits, spices and – importantly […]

Climate Crisis
Phasing out Oil can offer a better Life for Many

Phasing out Oil can offer a better Life for Many

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By Jack Marley | – The EU could ban crude oil imports from Russia within six months if a new round of sanctions is approved. Excluding a handful of countries, refined Russian oil products like petrol and diesel could cease to flow into the EU by the end of 2022. The EU currently relies on […]

Climate Crisis
How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to save the climate – and cost countries billions

How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to save the climate – and cost countries billions

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By Rachel Thrasher, Boston University; Blake Alexander Simmons, Colorado State University; and Kyla Tienhaara, Queen’s University, Ontario | – Fossil fuel companies have access to an obscure legal tool that could jeopardize worldwide efforts to protect the climate, and they’re starting to use it. The result could cost countries that press ahead with those efforts […]

Climate Crisis
Climate Emergency: Dangerously Early Southwest Wildfire Season Encroaches on iconic Towns and Nature

Climate Emergency: Dangerously Early Southwest Wildfire Season Encroaches on iconic Towns and Nature

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By Molly Hunter, University of Arizona | – New Mexico and Arizona are facing a dangerously early fire season. It has left neighborhoods in ashes and is having such devastating effects that the governor of New Mexico on May 3, 2022, urged President Joe Biden to issue a disaster declaration. Over 600 fires had broken […]

Bill of Rights
State Power will replace Roe Abortion right if leaked Alito opinion prevails in Supreme Court

State Power will replace Roe Abortion right if leaked Alito opinion prevails in Supreme Court

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By Morgan Marietta, UMass Lowell | – Draft opinions circulated among Supreme Court justices are meant to allow for deliberation and editing before a final version is released. They are not the last word, nor ready for public reaction. But on the evening of May 2, 2022, Politico published a bombshell: a leaked draft of […]

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