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Quest for racial justice in US must include environmental and climate issues, activists say

Justice

Environmental pollution and exposure to risks from climate change are closely linked with a history of institutional racism in the United States. Heather McTeer Toney, field director for Moms Clean Air Force, says demonstrations for racial justice and police reform must also pay attention to environmental justice for communities of color.

Hurricane Michael 2018

Warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico raise alarm as US storm season approaches

Environment
Prescribed burning in Arizona

California must learn to fight fire with prescribed fire, experts say

Environment
For cities along Florida's Atlantic coast, flooding from high tides has already become a reality. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., September 2015.

South Florida Republicans are fed up with their party leaders on climate change

Environment
A US National Weather Service map shows precipitation levels across the southeastern US on October 4, 2015. White splotches in South Carolina indicate areas with more than 10 inches of rain.

The Carolinas’ ‘thousand-year’ flood follows a big rainfall trend across the US

Environment
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Red crayfish invades Pacific Northwest waterways

Environment

The popular crayfish, perhaps better known in some corners as the crawfish, is on the move. The red swamp crayfish is invading, with some outside assistance, Washington State lakes and pushing out native species.

As Birmingham and other cities clean up, weather service rolling out radar upgrades

Global Politics

Tornadoes tore across parts of the United States on Sunday night, killing at least two, in Jefferson County, Ala., and wounding dozens. But many lives were likely saved with timely warnings from the National Weather Service — warning they hope to make more accurate with a new radar system rolling out nationally.

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Southern Chip Mill Boom

Efforts to protect the spotted owl and preserve old growth forests have sharply reduced timber cutting on public lands in the Pacific Northwest. But the world-wide demand for paper, particle board and other products made from wood chips is still soaring. So, to help meet this demand, the wood chipping business has shifted to the […]

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