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Droughts Push More People to Migrate Than Floods

Circle of Blue

Indications of migration due to water scarcity and groundwater depletion came as early as 2006 in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley where a combination of declining rainfall and factory farms caused community wells to go dry. “It is not easy to be outside of one’s homeland,” she told Circle of Blue in 2006.

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Fourth District Belatedly Publishes CEQA Opinion Upholding City of Newport Beach’s Approval of Multifamily-Housing Development Pursuant To Addendum To 2006 EIR For Larger Mixed-Use Development

CEQA Developments

Given that the City is fairly built out, there is a dearth of available sites on which to construct multifamily housing, and the City had identified the Center as a possible site for multifamily residential development circa 2006. The project was approved in early 2021 over the objections of one property owner at the Center.

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A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club

New Scientist

The official definition of a planet, which famously saw Pluto demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006, doesn't really work for worlds outside of our solar system. Now there is a fix – but Pluto is still left out

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Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a planet again?

New Scientist

Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets Society is all about bringing it back by making it bigger, faster and better than ever

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Sea Level Rise is Already Threatening Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

And since 2006, it has been even faster: as high as 4.2 This loss of land ice has been the dominant contributor to sea level rise since 2006. As if that weren’t worrisome enough, studies show that it has been accelerating since the 1960s. Since 1993, sea level has risen by an average rate of 3.1

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The Livestock Industry’s Secret Weapons: Expert Academics

Inside Climate News

By Georgina Gustin When researchers at the United Nations published a bombshell report in 2006 called “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” the livestock industry soon realized it had a major public relations challenge on its hands. A new paper traces the financial ties between the livestock industry and academic research.

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Firearm suicides are rising in the US despite declining globally

New Scientist

While down overall in the US since 1990, they began to climb in 2006 – coinciding with increased access to firearms In the past three decades, suicides involving guns have steadily dropped around the world.

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