"Hurricane Ian’s Toll Is Severe. Lack of Insurance Will Make It Worse."
"Most of the Florida homes in the path of Hurricane Ian lack flood insurance, posing a major challenge to rebuilding efforts, new data show."
Source: NYTimes, 09/30/2022
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"Hurricane Ian Nears Florida Landfall With 155 mph Winds"
"Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified as it neared landfall along Florida’s southwest coast Wednesday morning, gaining top winds of 155 mph (250 kph), just shy of the most dangerous Category 5 status. Damaging winds and rain lashed the state, and the heavily populated Naples to Sarasota region was at highest risk of a devastating storm surge."
Source: AP, 09/28/2022
"Ian Makes Landfall In Cuba As Category 3 Hurricane; Florida On Alert"
"Hurricane Ian made landfall over western Cuba early Tuesday as a Category 3 storm, bringing with it “significant wind and storm surge impacts” as it continued to make its way toward Florida, forecasters said."
Source: Washington Post, 09/27/2022
"Civil Rights Law Targets ‘Cancer Alley’ Discrimination"
"Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last seven miles the road passes a massive, rust-colored aluminum-oxide refinery, then the Evonik chemical plant, then rows of white tanks at the Marathon oil refinery."
Source: AP, 09/26/2022
Ian Strengthens To Hurricane, Will Rapidly Intensify, Hitting Florida
"Hurricane watches were issued for a stretch of Florida's western coast Monday morning as Ian strengthened into the fourth hurricane of the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season. AccuWeather forecasters warn that the storm will only grow stronger in the coming days and is forecast to become a Category 4 behemoth in the Gulf of Mexico later this week."
Source: AccuWeather, 09/26/2022
In Puerto Rico The Vast Majority Of People Have No Clean Water
"The vast majority of Puerto Rican homes have been plunged into darkness after Hurricane Fiona wiped out the power grid, but people on the island are facing another devastating emergency: How to access clean water?"
Source: NPR, 09/21/2022
"Louisiana Takes Big Step Toward Unprecedented Land-Building Project"
"Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion project to divert water and sediment from the Mississippi River into Barataria Basin as part of an unprecedented plan to fight coastal land loss moved a major step forward on Monday with the release by the Army Corps of Engineers of a final environmental impact statement."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 09/21/2022
"Even Before Fiona, Puerto Rico’s Power Grid Was Poised For Failure"
"The hurricane winds that knocked out power to the entire island of Puerto Rico over the weekend encountered an electrical grid that experts liken to a house of cards: a fragile, decrepit, patchwork system running on old equipment that has failed to substantially modernize since the U.S. territory’s deadliest storm, Hurricane Maria, swept through five years before."
Source: Washington Post, 09/20/2022
Author Shares Unorthodox Look at the Ways of Water
How water moves through the global ecosystem and shapes our landscapes is the subject of a must-read new book by writer Erica Gies, according to BookShelf editor Tom Henry. A significant part of water’s story is how humanity invariably fails when trying to manipulate it. But hope may reside with Gies’ various “water detectives,” who explore how to “let water go where it wants to go.”
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Methane, a Key Global Warming Source, Is Targeted by Nations
Carbon dioxide may get more attention, but the second-most damaging greenhouse gas, methane, is now the focus of a global pledge to cut emissions 30% by 2030. As part of a Society of Environmental Journalists publishing project focused on covering climate solutions, we take a closer look at methane with energy reporter Nushin Huq. A primer on the climate-related problems of methane and the promise of methane-based solutions. Plus, watch a recent SEJ methane solutions webinar and see our Methane and Climate Change Toolbox.
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