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The push to remove lead pipes is on. Thousands of water systems still don’t know where theirs are
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (1083+ words) Kathryn Pilgrim knew the century-old Victorian she bought in Dunkirk, New York, came with old plumbing. She replaced pipes she suspected of containing lead and later installed a kitchen filter designed to remove heavy metals. But six years after buying…...
Global heat stuck on high. Scientists say August was Earth's hottest month they've measured.
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (591+ words) WASHINGTON – Earth cooked to its hottest month on record in August, blowing far past a key climate threshold, due to the dangerous double whammy of human-caused climate change and a supersized El Nino, according to the European climate service Copernicus....
In North Carolina, a race is on to restore critical peatland before it dries up or is destroyed
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1185+ words) It's an idyllic setting in North Carolina's Inner Banks, where fields of cotton, soybeans and corn stretch for miles, country roads wend through stands of pines and thousands of bird watchers converge to witness the spring migration. But it's what’s…...
Takeaways from AP story on a major effort to restore peatland in North Carolina
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (429+ words) Fifty miles (80 kilometers) of ditches dug decades ago for an abandoned farming venture drained much of the water from thousands of years of accumulated peat — partially decayed organic matter up to 15 feet (4.6 meters) deep — leaving the site vulnerable to drought…...
Nepal's flood disaster and the impact of climate change loom large in the icy shadow of Mont Blanc
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (789+ words) Alex Turnbull And John Leicester CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC – For centuries, French and Italian mountain communities on the flanks of Western Europe's highest peak have gazed upon seemingly eternal glaciers and snow that gave the colossus its name: Mont Blanc, the white mountain....
Farmers turn to perennial grains as one solution to extreme weather
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1300+ words) Joshua A. Bickel And Alexa St. John BELOIT, Kan. – Bryce Black kneels in a wheat field battered by intense drought. He holds two strands, remarking on how small the seed head is compared with what's normal. After a late October rain…...
Global warming will exceed limit, UN says in a report that maps path to get back below danger zone
1+ week, 5+ day ago (945+ words) In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. So now the world must figure out how to…...
Keeping cool saves thousands of lives yearly, but at a cost of worsening global warming, experts say
1+ week, 6+ day ago (433+ words) Cooling from air conditioning saves lives — more than 5,000 a year in the United States alone — but it also heats up the planet and taxes our electrical grid, scientists say. Experts from 75 countries and 250 cities are trying to walk the tightrope…...
The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: 'Bigger shocks are on the way"
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1361+ words) Scientists have long warned that the world will experience more intense extreme weather events like heat waves, storms, floods and droughts. But what once seemed like the realm of fiction is now discussed as a possibility, even an inevitability. Warning…...
Federal officials announce water cuts as Colorado River supplies continue to plunge
3+ week, 2+ day ago (519+ words) Dorany Pineda And Wufei Yu Federal officials announced sharp water cuts for the next two years on Friday for three Western states that rely on the imperiled Colorado River. Under the Bureau of Reclamation's plan, California, Nevada and Arizona will…...