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Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Wildfires are escalating globally, and the threat extends beyond destruction by flames. NASA warns that “Earth’s warming climate is amplifying wildland fire activity,” citing that “extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide.” The severity of these fires degrades water quality in the...
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Las extensas zonas de bosques con vegetación excesiva en California suponen un riesgo de incendios forestales catastróficos, y hoy la Asamblea Estatal estudiará la posibilidad de dar luz verde a dos proyectos de ley destinados a promover las quemas controladas que reduzcan el riesgo de desastres. La Ley de...
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Huge swaths of overgrown forests in California pose a risk for catastrophic wildfires, and today, the State Assembly will consider advancing two bills to promote intentional burns that lower the risk of disaster. The Beneficial Fire Capacity Act would allocate 10% of the annual wildfire resilience portion of the...
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Maya C. Miller, Jeremia Kimelman & Mohamed Al Elew CalMatters Hace dos años, Chiefer Danks de Rosedale, quien trabaja en la agricultura, creía que el expresidente Donald Trump estabilizaría la economía y haría que la vida volviera a ser más asequible, como lo era durante su primer mandato. Pero más de un...
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Maya C. Miller, Jeremia Kimelman & Mohamed Al Elew CalMatters Two years ago, Chiefer Danks of Rosedale, who works in agriculture, believed the former president would stabilize the economy and make life more affordable again as it was under his first administration. But more than a year into the...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters Los líderes de San Diego están tratando de acelerar las soluciones a la contaminación por aguas residuales del río Tijuana, al tiempo que investigan el alcance del problema. Activistas comunitarios, profesionales de la salud y expertos ambientales de la Coalición del Río Tijuana ofrecieron el jueves...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters San Diego leaders are trying to speed up solutions to sewage pollution from the Tijuana River, while investigating the scope of the problem. Community advocates, healthcare professionals and environmental experts with the Tijuana River Coalition on Thursday offered updates on the toxic pollution that plagues south...
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Extreme heat kills. In Maricopa County, Arizona, 608 heat-related deaths were confirmed in 2024, one of the highest totals on record. And when the cost of protecting oneself from the heat rises faster than wages, the problem ceases to be merely a climate issue and becomes a social crisis....
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El calor extremo mata. En el condado de Maricopa, Arizona, se confirmaron 608 muertes relacionadas con el calor en 2024, uno de los totales más altos registrados. Y cuando el costo de protegerse del calor aumenta más rápido que los salarios, el problema deja de ser climático para convertirse...