Fri.Apr 02, 2021

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Should the official Atlantic hurricane season be lengthened?

Real Climate

By Jim Kossin, Tim Hall, Mike Mann, and Stefan Rahmstorf The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season broke a number of records , with the formation of an unprecedented 30 “named storms” (storms that reach wind-speed intensity of at least 18 m/s and are then given an official name). The season also started earlier than normal. In fact, when ranked by their order in the season, the date of formation of every named storm, from Tropical Storm Arthur to Hurricane Iota was substantially earlier tha

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Gift of Land Will Aid Pygmy Rabbit Recovery

Washington Nature

By Corinna Hanson, Moses Coulee Land Manager, and Debra Crespin, Associate Director of Philanthropy A new gift of land to The Nature Conservancy, 282 acres near Quincy, will help secure a future for tiny endangered pygmy rabbits. The gift comes from Peter Lancaster and the estate of his friend Paul Schuster, buddies who shared a passion for the fragile sagebrush covered lands near where they grew up in Wenatchee.