White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthyand Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm celebrated progress on President Biden's infrastructure package by taking a spin in a Kenworth fuel-cell, zero-emissions Class A truck.
What they're saying: "We have a deal, a Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework deal," Granholm said. McCarthy responded: "it's big and it's beautiful."
An unprecedented shortage in salmon in Alaska's Yukon River villages have forced local residents to rely on fish deliveries from outside sources, including non-profits and food processors, the Anchorage Daily News reports.
Why it matters: The fish shortage — and need for outside deliveries — means local residents in the Yukon are not earning money from their own economies to use on essential supplies, including gas, and they could face a winter without sufficient food resources.
The new White House strategy for improving conditions in Central America to slow migration includes helping to build resilience to climate change.
Why it matters: Climate change is increasingly understood as one of many drivers of human displacement, both within and across borders, due to flooding and other extreme weather, effects on food security and more.
Starting next week, the National Weather Service will begin using more specific lingo to alert residents to the severity and potential impacts from thunderstorms — similar to tornado and flash-flood warnings.
Why it matters: 13 of the 22 billion-dollar weather and climate events in the U.S. last year were severe thunderstorms.
What to expect:
Destructive: Baseball-sized hail and/or 80mph winds; will activate cell-phone alerts.
Considerable: Golf-ball-sized hail and/or 70mph winds; no cell-phone alert.
Baseline: Quarter-sized hail and/or 50mph winds; no threat tag means the storm is expected to be at or below base level.
Kiwis have an edge when it comes to surviving total societal collapse, according to a new study.
Why it matters: Civilization is "in a perilous state," according to the researchers behind the study, and New Zealand's mix of geographical isolation and ability to grow its own food and maintain electricity and manufacturing makes it particularly well-suited to see it through the end times.
