NY beaches seeing increase in shark sightings
Beaches across the NYC area have seen a major increase in shark sightings during the summer, prompting closures and leaving some beachgoers feeling concerned.
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- The Courier Journal
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Narratives around this disaster have run amuck with some going so far as to name the people dealing with it as the harbingers of their own destruction
- Miami Herald
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- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Wisconsin team goes on the hunt for the elusive and endangered massasauga rattlesnake
The DNR is working to find and monitor eastern massasauga rattlesnakes, one of two rattlesnake species native to Wisconsin.
- KGO – San Francisco
Megaflood could sink much of Bay Area under water, experts say
Residents in low-lying cities along the bayshore, San Francisco and Oakland airports, and freeways would be flooded as mega storms dump rain for three to four weeks, not days, as a result of climate change.
- USA TODAY
A pipe dream, or a possibility? Water experts debate 1,500-mile aqueduct from Cajun Country to Lake Powell.
Other ideas to solve the West's water woes are equally complicated: Toting icebergs from the Arctic, desalinating ocean water or manufacturing rain.
- CBS News
A megaflood could bring over 8 feet of water to parts of California
Climate change has already doubled the likelihood of catastrophic flooding in the state, researchers found, and without a limit on greenhouse gas emissions, it'll only get worse.
- The Guardian
‘Gross negligence’: popular Michigan river hit with second chemical spill in four years
Spill is yet another example of how contamination from corporate polluters can endanger entire communities, critics say
- The Guardian
On the hunt with New York’s spotted lanternfly squishers: ‘I came to kill’
Local officials have instructed residents to destroy the insects – and some New Yorkers are taking it very seriously
- People
Construction Crews Discover 12,000-Year-Old Mastodon Skeleton in Michigan: 'Just Blew Us Away'
The bones were found while crews were prepping for a road construction project, MLive.com reported
- Time
What Comes After the Coming Climate Anarchy?
Our civilization is slowly collapsing—but the next one is already rising
- Christian Science Monitor
History uncovered: Fossils older than dinosaurs, and a religious refuge
Progress roundup: Discoveries in both Brazil and Turkey were so vast that paleontologists and archaeologists have a wealth of opportunities to learn.
- USA TODAY
Alligator kills 88-year-old woman in South Carolina after she slipped while gardening, officials say
Authorities were notified of an alligator "standing guard" next to a human body in a gated adult community Monday morning.
- USA TODAY
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- Associated Press
German minister decries ecological catastrophe in Oder River
Germany's environment minister said the mass die-off of fish in the Oder River is an ecological catastrophe and it isn't clear yet how long it will take the river to recover. Steffi Lemke spoke Sunday at a news conference alongside her Polish counterpart, Anna Moskwa, after a meeting in Szczecin, a Polish city on the Oder River.
- Hilton Head Island Packet
Alligator attacks in Beaufort County happen, but fatal attacks are rare. Here’s a look
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- WJBK
At least 130,000 people still affected by Great Lakes Water Authority water main break
A massive crack in a pipe at the Lake Huron water treatment facility has impacted the water access of more than 130,000 people across several communities in Metro Detroit. Residents in the village of Almont, Bruce Township, Burtchville Township, Imlay City, Rochester, Shelby Township, and Washington Township should continue boiling their water before using it.
- Associated Press
Colorado River cuts expected for Arizona, Nevada and Mexico
The federal government on Tuesday is expected to announce water cuts to states that rely on the Colorado River as drought and climate change leave less water flowing through the river and deplete the reservoirs that store it. The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people across seven states in the American West as well as Mexico and helps feed an agricultural industry valued at $15 billion a year. Cities and farms across the region are anxiously awaiting official hydrology projections — estimates of future water levels in the river — that will determine the extent and scope of cuts to their water supply.
- Associated Press
Europe drought: German industry at risk as Rhine level falls
Germany's main industry lobby group warned Tuesday that factories may have to throttle production or halt it completely because plunging water levels on the Rhine River are making it harder to transport cargo. Authorities say the shipping lane itself still has a depth of almost 200 centimeters (six feet, six inches), but the record low measurement Tuesday morning highlights the extreme lack of water caused by months of drought affecting much of Europe. “The ongoing drought and the low water levels threaten the supply security of industry,” said Holger Loesch, deputy head of the BDI business lobby group.
- LA Times
Tensions grow over lack of a water deal for the shrinking Colorado River
Two months ago, federal officials told states that depend on the Colorado River to make plans for major cuts. Negotiations have yet to produce a deal.