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NEW: The world's most powerful countries are considering a novel climate proposal:

Impose a 2 percent climate tax on the world's richest 3,000 people—and give the money **directly** to people in climate-vulnerable countries heated.world/p/nobel-prize-…

“Over the last decade, severe storm outages increased by 74% compared with the previous 10 years. High winds, rains, winter storms and tropical cyclones including hurricanes, accounted for 80% of all power interruptions over the last 20 years.” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Colorado River water that was once used to irrigate 500 acres of farmland is now flowing to a suburb more than 200 miles away. Maanvi Singh reports on how the company Greenstone sold the water, and the continuing debate over the deal: theguardian.com/environment/20…

Check out this NW Science Writers field reporting panel with Dr. Jenny Morber Ashley Braun Lauren Frohne WUDAN YAN | wudan.bsky.social. If you aren't in Seattle, Zoom in!

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89 years ago today was Black Sunday- the apocalyptic dust storm that gave rise to the term 'Dust Bowl.' Great Dust Bowl era photographs in this story.
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Regarding our new paper in Science Magazine -- Study reveals giant store of global soil carbon phys.org/news/2024-04-r…

Yesterday, Science Magazine released a paper about what needs to be done to support tribally run green energy projects. My latest from grist
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New working paper on climate, wildfire smoke, and mortality, expertly led by Minghao Qiu StanfordECHOLab . We find that by mid-century in the US, damages from mortality from wildfire smoke are about equal to the sum of all other climate damages in recent estimates 🧵

200 incidents of bizarre fish behavior recorded recently in Florida cnn.com/2024/04/12/cli…

My alma mater University of Oregon failed to tell students about a pattern of recent druggings at frats, as the Clery Act requires, then got caught making false statements justifying why it didn't do so.

Great work by Eugene Weekly ELIZA, who brought receipts
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Great (and sobering) breakdown by Ian James on a lesser-known driver of ocean acidification: high nitrogen levels from coastal sewage plants.

“It’s not just coming from global climate change. It’s also coming from our land-based sources of pollution.'
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California's water storage is at its healthiest levels in over a decade.

Virtually every major reservoir in the state has average to above-average storage, with a substantial 115% of average snowpack still to melt.

The last two years have been an amazing reprieve from the…

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

ANNOUNCING NSWA's
Field Reporting Panel

April 24 at 7:00pm

University House, 4400 Stone Way N, Seattle

And On Zoom!

Panelists will discuss tips, tricks, and things to know when gathering stories and reporting in the field--from how to find a fixer to essential gear

Who's going to Vienna for the EGU meeting ?

I arrive Sunday night! I'm co-convener of a session on lakes and inland seas under climate change.

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#egu2024

Long overdue.
'The EPA says the rule--focused on six pollutants including ethylene oxide, chloroprene, benzene, 1,3-butadiene, ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride — will reduce toxic air pollution near these plants by roughly 6,200 tons annually.'

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“Even in locations with no known source of contamination, 31% of ground water samples exceeded threshold limits proposed in March 2023 by the US EPA, according to the study, and nearly 70% exceeded standards set by Health Canada.” cnn.com/2024/04/08/hea…

This is a map of the U.S. EPA air toxics monitoring stations. Why do none exist in LA and TX? Robert D. Bullard?

You know that thing when you look at a word and think it can't possibly be spelled that way-->
Today's word: guess.