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There is still so much unknown or underreported about the impacts of extreme heat on our bodies and minds -- including age and gender differences. This piece by Victoria St. Martin points to some of the latest research on heat impacts on children. insideclimatenews.org/news/10062024/…

A person incarcerated in Illinois died last week partly due to excessive heat. cbsnews.com/chicago/news/c… Remembering this intense, claustrophobic High Country News Sarah Sax, MESc. investigation into what happened in prisons during a heatwave in Washington hcn.org/issues/54-6/cl…

Extreme heat makes outdoor recreation dangerous. It also makes you harder to rescue. My latest for The Atlantic: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

"Phoenix knows more about heat than you" That's the headline I pitched for this one. Because it's true & I'm weary of Arizona being portrayed elsewhere as a bunch of melting, helpless, #climate-clueless morons. THIS is the frontier of #heat mitigation: azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

This is becoming a fun exercise: What are the century's best, say, 25 enviro books? Votes in comments for: —BRAIDING SWEETGRASS, Kimmerer —HOME PLACE, Lanham —WILD SOULS, Marris —WILD NEW WORLD, Flores —IMMENSE WORLD, Yong —UNDERLAND, Macfarlane —DREAMT LAND, Arax continued...

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Big series from Los Angeles Times today on why reviving local journalism is so important. Starting with a story on Richmond, CA, and what happened when all the newspapers went out of business and Chevron became the city's main news source: latimes.com/california/sto… via jessica garrison

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Big farmers in California's Central Valley typically have the resources to recover after climate-fueled floods. Small farmers, though, are often left devastated — with little government help: hcn.org/issues/56-8/af…

When 17 back-to-back storms hit California's Central Coast in 2023, hundreds of small farms were devastated. More than a year after the storms, they're still fighting — and struggling — to recover. hcn.org/issues/56-8/af…

Increasingly extreme heat is contributing to more deaths in California, but getting data on how many is slow laist.com/news/climate-e…

Across the US, a scrappy, unelected brigade of "heat officers" are tasked with the gargantuan task of protecting the public from the deadly effects of extreme heat. The officers could save lives, there's just one problem: they don't have any authority. grist.org/extreme-heat/c…

PSA to inform you that our August issue is 🔥, with new stories by Sarah Trent, Toastie Oaster, Laureli Ivanoff, Kylie Mohr, Ben Goldfarb, Ruxandra Guidi, Chris La Tray, Michelle Nijhuis, Taylar Dawn Stagner, The Land Desk, Susan Shain, Arthur Sze, and Erin X Wong. Read & subscribe.

Beautiful photos and important story here from Anne Readel—about new discoveries that may aid the conservation of the rusty patched bumblebee. UW–Madison U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dept. of Agriculture The Xerces Society Wisconsin DNR smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

Honestly his article should have just been titled "Why climate action needs local journalism" jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…

The September issue of High Country News is another winner, if I may say so. Exceptional work by tanvi @SavannaStrott Isobel Whitcomb B. "Toastie" Oaster Anthony J. Wallace The Land Desk Ben Goldfarb Sarah Trent @cwahmanholm Tina Vasquez Miles W. Griffis. Do not miss this one.

Opportunity knocks! High Country News is hiring three editorial fellows: a Virginia Spencer Davis fellow (to cover rural communities and agriculture), an Indigenous affairs fellow & a science and climate fellow. Learn more an apply by going here: hcn.org/about/jobs/. Pls RT.

The last time I saw John talk about a storm like this, he was begging Puerto Ricans to get out of the way of a Category 4 named Maria. grist.org/article/miami-…

We are witnessing a genuinely extraordinary, and regionally quite deadly and destructive, period for extreme #weather in the United States. And, quite frankly, the fingerprints of #ClimateChange are all over what has transpired in recent weeks and may yet occur in coming days.

See this blue on radar. These are birds stuck in the eye of Hurricane Milton!