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Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011. Just like the current fires in Texas, the 2011 Las Conchas fire in New Mexico was, at the time, the state’s largest fire on record at 156,000 acres. The lab conducts research to maintain the US nuclear stockpile among other missions.

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Building a More Resilient, Just City

Academy of Natural Sciences

As extreme storms become more ubiquitous, Philadelphia is among numerous cities grappling with flooding issues against the backdrop of aging infrastructure, rising sea levels and more extreme precipitation events. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. chance of happening in any given year, respectively.

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2021-2022 California Environmental Legislation: What’s Been Enacted?

Legal Planet

SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use. Land Use and Building Decarbonization. The Governor signed notable new laws designed to address the housing affordability crisis, with GHG reduction co-benefits. A Few Notable Vetoes.

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Out of sight, out of mind: The vulnerable world beneath our feet

HumanNature

Threat is a bold word- but maybe not bold enough You may have encountered information regarding how global climate change may be impacting coastlines via sea level rise, or maybe you have heard individuals link the increasing severity of wildfires to increasing atmospheric temperatures. Berdugo, M., Eldridge, D. Eisenhauer, N.,

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Gideon Mendel: Drowning World Opens May 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

Haiti (2008), Pakistan (2010), Australia and Thailand (2011), Nigeria (2012), Germany and The Philippines (2013),?England?and Their proximity struck him as a shared vulnerability that seemed to unite people. Mendel continued to photograph and document flood zones around the world, visiting?Haiti He photographed flooding in the U.S.

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How we Conceptualize Security will Shape our Response to Environmental Challenges

HumanNature

Thus, it is crucial to understand how placing the environment alongside notions of security shapes the way environmental issues are understood and also governed by whom and for whom. Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Political Geography 26 (6): 639–655 Browning, C.,

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Conflict & Climate Change: The Real Triple C

Vermont Law

Climate change causes sea-level rise, natural resource scarcity, and natural disasters. Southern Sudan started experiencing drought as a result of sea level temperature rise in the Indian Ocean. After the drought, the Syrian conflict arose in 2011. The conflict in . Darfur began because of an ecological crisis.