AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

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• Atmospheric rivers are shifting poleward, reshaping global weather patterns

• For the first time in human history, we are pushing the global water cycle out of balance
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• Insurance 'nightmare' unfolds for Florida homeowners after back-to-back hurricanes
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• Climate change made hurricane milton stronger, with heavier rain, scientists conclude

• What happens to the world if forests stop absorbing carbon? Ask Finland.

• Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

• Only one-third of Europe's surface water is in good health, report warns

• Dams across the country are aging and facing intensifying floods wrought by climate change

• Rapid urbanization and climate change key drivers of dramatic flood impacts in Nepal

• The world's carbon sinks are on fire
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• Water challenges — made worse by rising temperatures — are threatening the world’s crops

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• Destruction of global forests increases in 140 countries that promised to halt deforestation

• Double punch of hurricanes could become common due to climate crisis

• UN warns world's water cycle becoming ever more erratic
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• Large French ski resort to close — not enough snow
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• Helene was supercharged by ultra-warm water made up to 500 times more likely by global warming, study finds
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• Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather

• 'Irreversible' environmental disasters loom as global temperatures rise, new study finds

• Climate change is drying up the world's rivers at an alarming rate
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• Wildlife numbers fall by 73% in 50 years, global stocktake finds

• Unprecedented Niger floods displace 1.1 million as devastation grows
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Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).

There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.

   
• Jervin Jonas Ajpuac Cos
forgotten person

• Wesley Coleman
activist     (archived link)

• Joe Willie Davis
in county jail     (archived link)

• Jvoine Elow Jr
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Aaron Esters Jr
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Rashad Ewing
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Gerard
forgotten person     (archived link)

• Jose Goevava
in county jail     (archived link)

• Timmothy Green
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Cissy Houston
singer, mother     (archived link)

• Ethel Kennedy
Kennedy

• Johnny Neel
rock'n'roller, the Allman Brothers     (archived link)

• Jack Ponti
songwriter, "Hey Stoopid"     (archived link)

• Garrett Stroman
shot and killed     (archived link)

• Luis Tiant
baseballer, Boston Red Sox     (archived link)

   
Previously dead

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