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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

Autodesk Although the team is just at the start of this digitization journey, Tom is excited about what the data can do for energy efficiency — for instance, gradually pre-heating and cooling spaces, based on models of how many people will be in the space at a given time. “Over a third of museums in the U.S. Southwick agrees.

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How does climate change threaten where you live? A region-by-region guide.

Grist

In fact, there are so many crops getting irrigated , water is evaporating off them and cooling summer days in parts of the Midwest, like central Wisconsin, countering some of the warming from climate change. Northeast are especially at risk, and the region’s aging stormwater and sewage infrastructure only makes matters worse.