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Drought parching western U.S. brings water shortages, wildfires
… to climate change. A drier West also means the likelihood of earlier and more large-scale wildfires. Yet, despite adding 15 million more residents, California is using no more water than …
EarthBeat Weekly: Amid climate change, a week to commit to caring for our common home
… and the rate has increased over the past three decades. That is exacerbating drought and wildfires, and rising sea levels related to global warming are making coastal flooding worse. …
EarthBeat Weekly: Continuing challenge for people of faith: turning climate concern into action
… by Dennis and Steven Mufson for the Post. Eight months after lightning sparked hundreds of wildfires in northern California, Big Basin Redwoods State Park is recovering from the scorching, …
US must halve emissions to galvanize global climate action — UN chief
… Group. With climate change already worsening heat waves, strengthening hurricanes and making wildfires more ferocious, Guterres called this week's summit a "make it or break it" moment for …
Therapists are reckoning with eco-anxiety
… That was my experience. I grew up in a region of Oregon heavily impacted by drought and wildfire. Over the past 10 years, my grief has steadily intensified as lack of snow closed the …
EarthBeat Weekly: Climate science is clear — it's time for 'hard choices' based on faith values
… our shoulders," she added. "We have grown up seeing these drastic changes, like extinction and wildfires, become the norm. We feel powerless. We have grown up in a world that we know can do …
Scientists: Humans must respect these 9 boundaries to keep Earth habitable
… and push us toward planet-wide tipping points. Another tipping point example: the devastating wildfires striking Australia and California in 2019 and 2020. They arose from multiple factors — …
Earth doesn't need saving — we do, UN official says at Laudato Si' conference
… the sixth major species extinction, and increasing major weather-related disasters, including wildfires in California and stronger hurricanes in the Caribbean, reveal that "Mother Nature is …
What Biden's climate justice pledge on leaking oil wells means
… especially California, searching for signs of these climate hazards. “They’re like invisible wildfires,” he says. There’s a focus on spotting the bad sites because so-called super-emitters …
Justice for the Earth
… The coronavirus, rampant wildfires, record hurricanes, plunging biodiversity...the concurrent disasters of our warming …
EarthBeat Weekly: Organized crime threatens Amazonian Indigenous communities
… fuels, reports Jack Graham for Thomson Reuters Foundation News. After increasingly severe wildfire seasons in places like the Western U.S. and Australia, scientists are asking some urgent …