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Kelly Leilani Main, Greg Lindsay: Why we need to make the Great Lakes the center of our climate strategy

If you’re looking for a strategy to get the most value from climate investments, the answer is simple: Cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo will still be livable as the climate changes, and have the space to absorb climate migrants.
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Michigan’s climate-ready future: Wetland parks, less cement, roomy shores

As climate change alters our world, Michigan's bounty of fresh water — if managed smartly — could be the foundation of a thriving state economy and superior quality of life.

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Jade S. Sasser: The complex link between population decline and a warming planet

Despite slower population growth, we are still speeding toward environmental catastrophe, with greenhouse gas emissions all over the planet rising steadily.
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Slower population growth: The goods and the bads

Results from the 2020 population censuses in the United States and China recently made headlines. But rather than recognizing the social, economic and environmental benefits of slower rates of population growth for the U.S., China and the planet, much of the media stressed the downsides of slower growth.

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Great apes predicted to lose 90% of homelands in Africa, study finds

A combination of the climate crisis, the destruction of wild areas for minerals, timber and food, and human population growth is on track to decimate their ranges by 2050, scientists said.

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As more climate migrants cross borders seeking refuge, laws will need to adapt

Climate migrants don’t fit neatly into the legal definitions of refugee or migrant, and that can leave them in limbo. The Biden administration is debating how to identify and help them.
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US sued over road project in Mojave desert tortoise habitat

There are alternative routes that would solve vehicle congestion problems in the fast-growing area of southern Utah, and the decision to cut through protected land sets a dangerous precedent.

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UN report: Countries need to restore land area larger than China to avert dangerous warming

Countries need to fulfill their commitments to restore 1 billion hectares of degraded land by 2030 to avert dangerous climate change, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization.

e360.yale.edu

Chemicals are poisoning the world's female workers

Women are disproportionately exposed to deadly substances—and may be getting disproportionately sickened by them.
foreignpolicy.com

The sperm-count 'crisis' doesn't add up, new study contends

Reports of a decline in male fertility rely on flawed assumptions, a new study contends.
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The Overpopulation Podcast: Untucking overpopulation with Alexandra Paul

Actress Alexandra Paul has been courageously educating people about human overpopulation for over thirty years. Her most notable effort is a TEDx Talk, Overpopulation Facts - The Problem No One Will Discuss.

www.worldpopulationbalance.org

Amid dire Colorado River outlook, states plan to tap their Lake Mead savings accounts

This year and next, Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop.

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Toxic chemicals linked to lower egg counts in women

The higher the chemical levels found in a woman's blood, the fewer eggs they had left in their ovaries.
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U.S. Southwest, already parched, sees 'virtual water' drain abroad

As the Colorado River Basin enters yet another year of drought, global companies are worsening the water crisis.
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China adds more parks to its cities to raise quality of life

A national push to build urban parks is transforming Chinese cities, as the country tries to improve the quality of daily life.
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House hunters are leaving the city, and builders can't keep up

For years, people most wanted to live in places where it was the hardest to build. Now, with a rise in remote work, exurban areas look more appealing.
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China says it will allow couples to have 3 children, up from 2

The move is the Communist Party’s latest attempt to reverse declining birthrates and avert a population crisis, but experts say it is woefully inadequate.
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The ‘Beef’ with beef: Cattle, climate change, and alternative meat

Kentucky is a major beef producer, with the most cattle east of the Mississippi. Now a KY company is joining the "alternative meat" business.
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Opinion: Rein in the global scourge of palm oil

The cultivation of palm oil, found in roughly half of U.S. grocery products, has devastated tropical ecosystems, released vast amounts of C02 into the atmosphere, and impoverished rural communities. Efforts are underway that could curb industry abuses.

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As electric vehicles take off, we'll need to recycle their batteries

Electric car batteries contain critical minerals like cobalt and lithium. We'll need to recycle them unless we want to keep mining the earth for new ones.

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In California’s drier future, what's the best investment for securing water?

Experts agree that cities need diverse water supplies, but desalination plants remain controversial.
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Can removing highways fix America's cities?

Highways radically reshaped cities, destroying dense downtown neighborhoods. Now, some cities are starting to take them down.
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Global warming is boiling our testicles, suggesting a new animal fertility crisis looms

Scientists say overheating could render animals — including humans — increasingly infertile.

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Is indoor farming about to have its moment?

Bowery just raised $300 million from investors, just the latest in a string of further investments into the sector. Is it ready to break out in a big way?
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Mary McNamara: Fix the declining birthrate by giving moms a break

There's a good reason the birthrate is declining in California and the U.S.. We've made parenthood way harder than it should be.
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Plant pandemics and how they could endanger our food supply

In PNAS commentary, experts say we need better ways to detect, track and stop outbreaks of such diseases.
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Scientists warn of fertility loss in many species due to climate change

In our era of rapid climate change, many of our planet's lifeforms will struggle to survive the increased heat stress that comes from warming global temperatures, provoking concern about looming biodiversity losses.

www.vice.com

Long slide looms for world population, with sweeping ramifications

Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom.
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Jacques Leslie: We’re at the beginning of the California diaspora

After more than four agreeable decades in California, my wife and I became climate migrants — highly privileged ones, to be sure — and moved to Vermont.

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Humans have ‘stressed out’ Earth far longer, and more dramatically, than realized

A study of ancient pollen reveals that millennia of human activities transformed Earth's ecosystems as quickly as when the Ice Age ended.

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Even amid a pandemic, more than 40 million people fled their homes

Storms, floods, wildfires and to a lesser degree, conflict, uprooted millions globally in 2020 — the largest human displacement in more than a decade.
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