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We’re Naming Summer “Danger Season” in the US. Here’s Why.

Union of Concerned Scientists

I remember that federal relief funds went disproportionately to white victims of Hurricane Harvey’s massive flooding in Houston in 2017 while Black and Hispanic communities were largely excluded.

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The End Is Not Near, But If An 'Insect Apocalypse' Ever Happens, How Would We Know?

Science Blogs

The first study to set off alarms was published in 2017 by entomologists in Germany, who reported that over 27 years the biomass of flying insects in their traps had declined by 75%. The Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, once found throughout grasslands in the Pacific Northwest, was listed as endangered in 2013. Categories.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. million acres of critical habitat for the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest. Pacific time on Dec.

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The President’s Monumental Mistakes

Vermont Law

Today, there are a total of 157 monuments, protecting historical battle sites, archaeological treasures, unique ecosystems, geological features, and plenty of dinosaur bones (there is even a Dinosaur National Monument, in northwest Colorado). The 2017 reductions at Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears are possibly only the beginning.

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