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How climate change drives hotter, more frequent heat waves

Grist

Now, in conjunction with accelerating climate change, El Niño means a wide array of exacerbated hazards may be coming down the pike. Earlier this month, Earth logged its seven hottest days ever. There’s that mental health aspect that I hear people these days talking about a lot more — that anxiety, that grief, that frustration.”

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires.

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Charting Planet’s Second Decade

Planet Pulse

We had a simple theory of change: you can’t manage what you don’t measure, and the Earth was not being measured nearly fast enough to address a wide array of global challenges. or “how many trees have been felled by logging in the Amazon last month?” Broadly, our goal was to use space to help life on earth.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

The reserve is home to a vast array of rare and critically endangered animal species, including pangolins, sun bears, and - perhaps most famously - the Sumatran Tiger, of which there are less than 400 left in the wild.

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A watershed moment: How Boston’s Charles River went from polluted to pristine

Grist

Muskrat cruise the reeds as turtles bask on floating logs. Scientists have found wetlands to be critically connected to the health of larger bodies of water, like the Charles. During the herring run, gulls often wait at a dam in the suburb of Watertown to gobble up the fish that evaded the herons’ beaks.

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