Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2022

So one of my main tasks is, maybe six to eight times per year, working on the US Drought Monitor map and then there’s a few other times that I’ll do the Pacific Islands and Virgin Islands Drought Monitor too. We have seen, just the recent heatwave in the Pacific Northwest led to worsening conditions, soil moisture losses and whatnot.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2022

Then there’s the heat—Phoenix endured 53 days of 110° temperatures in 2020 and logged more than 300 heat-related deaths that year; the 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave would have been virtually impossible without the “help” of climate change. And, of course, the fires.

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Science Blogs

APRIL 29, 2019

The Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly, once found throughout grasslands in the Pacific Northwest, was listed as endangered in 2013. Categories. Many scientists are currently analyzing the roles that climate change , land use , chemical pesticides and other factors have played in reported declines in many insect species.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

In this case, ENSO occurs in the eastern equatorial Pacific. El Niño typically arrives between June and December in a given year and takes place with the depletion and failure of replacement of the Pacific Trade Winds following the Pacific monsoon season. But the effects don't just affect the Pacific, they are global.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

EPA unveiled a proposed rule that would take the Navigable Waters Protection Rule off the books and reinstate long-standing regulations defining which streams and wetlands are subject to federal protection, a category known as “Waters of the U.S.,” million acres of critical habitat for the northern spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

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). National Monument and the Pacific Remote Islands in and around the Hawaiian Islands.

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