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[https://theconversation.com/why-climate-is-an-everyday-story-but-media-coverage-still-spikes-around-special-environment-days-and-un-summits-256286 by Sanam Mahoozi 6/04/25 The Conversation]

Climate change is already happening. But 36% of the world’s population still disputes the realities of its origins and impacts. When the science is clear but public understanding lags, more lives and livelihoods are put at risk.

[[Foundational-Climate Change]]

===== Land-based sensors reveal high frequency of coastal flooding =====

[https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02326-w by Miyuki Hino 2/6/25 Communications earth & environment]

Rising sea levels threaten to inundate coastal communities globally, with 190-340 M people at risk of inundation by the end of the century1. Long before communities are permanently inundated, they begin to experience chronic flooding. With higher average sea levels, tides alone cause sunny-day flooding2,3. Tides also now impair stormwater drainage systems such that ordinary rain storms lead to flooding4,5. While rates of sea-level rise and its potential impacts have been well documented, data on the frequency of such floods occurring outside of extreme storms are scarce. Instead, estimates of coastal flood frequency based on tide gauge and elevation data are widely used: once water levels as measured at the tide gauge exceed a certain elevation threshold, flooding on land is inferred.

# [[Sea Level Rise]]

===== Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets =====

[https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02299-w by Chris R.Strokes 20/5/25 Communications earth & environment]

Global mean sea level (GMSL) increased by around 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, with the rate of change accelerating from ~1.4 mm year−1 (1901–1990) to ~3.7 mm year−1 (2006–2018)1 and, most recently, to 4.5 mm year−1 (2023)2. Several processes contribute to sea-level rise (SLR), but melting of glaciers and ice sheets is the dominant source, adding ~1.6 mm year−1 from 2006 to 2018, and now exceeding thermal expansion of the oceans (~1.4 mm year−1)1. Smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps dominated the cryosphere’s contribution to GMSL rise during the 20th Century1,3,4,5 and they will continue to shrink rapidly1,6, with profound impacts on water resources and human activities.

Global mean sea level (GMSL) increased by around 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, with the rate of change accelerating from ~1.4 mm year−1 (1901–1990) to ~3.7 mm year−1 (2006–2018)1 and, most recently, to 4.5 mm year−1 (2023)2. Several processes contribute to sea-level rise (SLR), but melting of glaciers and ice sheets is the dominant source, adding ~1.6 mm year−1 from 2006 to 2018, and now exceeding thermal expansion of the oceans (~1.4 mm year−1)1. Smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps dominated the cryosphere’s contribution to GMSL rise during the 20th Century1,3,4,5 and they will continue to shrink rapidly1,6, with profound impacts on water resources and human activities

# [[Polar Melting]]

===== Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished =====

[https://apnews.com/article/usaid-funding-cuts-humanitarian-children-trump-4447e210c4b5543b8ebb9a6b9e01aa53 by Taiwo Adebayo 15/5/25 AP]

For years, the United States Agency for International Development had been the backbone of the humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, helping non-government organizations provide food, shelter and healthcare to millions of people. But this year, the Trump administration cut more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall assistance around the world.

[[Health Care-Prevention]]

===== ~~The Tennessee representative Rusty Grills says~~ the ~~lobbyist proposed~~ a ~~simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings.~~ =====

===== People were repressed into silence’: the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism’s horrors =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/paco-roca-comic-artist-madrid-franco-fascism-exhibition by Sam Jones 5/6/25 The Guardian]

The map of Paco Roca’s mind, a landscape of memory and loss, unfolds across the walls of an exhibition hall in Madrid, inviting visitors to acquaint themselves with the bittersweet geographies that have shaped the work of one of Spain’s best-known graphic

[[Free Expression-Art]]

===== How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby by Ames Alexander 1/6/25 The Guardian]

The Tennessee representative Rusty Grills says the lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings.

[[Economy-Energy Sector]]

===== ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects =====

[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe by Tess McClure 3/6/25 The Guardian]

Daniel Janzen only began watching the insects – truly watching them – when his ribcage was shattered. Nearly half a century ago, the young ecologist had been out documenting fruit crops in a dense stretch of Costa Rican forest when he fell in a ravine, landing on his back. The long lens of his camera punched up through three ribs, snapping the bones into his thorax.

[[Environment-Biodiversity]]

===== Children need the freedom to play on driveways and streets again – here’s how to make it happen =====

[https://theconversation.com/children-need-the-freedom-to-play-on-driveways-and-streets-again-heres-how-to-make-it-happen-254543 by Debbie Watson 4/6/25 THE CONVERSATION]

In many cases, children don’t have easy access to purpose-built spaces like playgrounds. They need adults to get them there. Without the use of more informal spaces to spend time with other children, this means they often lack daily opportunities for play.

[[Health Care-Mental Health]]

===== Dry mouth, bad breath and tooth damage: the effects Ozempic and Wegovy can have on your mouth =====

[https://theconversation.com/dry-mouth-bad-breath-and-tooth-damage-the-effects-ozempic-and-wegovy-can-have-on-your-mouth-257859 by Adam Taylor 4/6/25 THE CONVERSATION]

Ozempic and Wegovy have been hailed as wonder drugs when it comes to weight loss. But as the drug has become more widely used, a number of unintended side-effects have become apparent – with the weight loss drug affecting the appearance of everything from your butt to your feet.

[[Health Care-Illness]]

===== Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing =====

[https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA]

The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.

[[Education-Racism]]

===== Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to the public for the first time =====

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 [https://theconversation.com/why-climate-is-an-everyday-story-but-media-coverage-still-spikes-around-special-environment-days-and-un-summits-256286 by Sanam Mahoozi 6/04/25 The Conversation]
   Climate change is already happening. But 36% of the world’s population still disputes the realities of its origins and impacts. When the science is clear but public understanding lags, more lives and livelihoods are put at risk.
+[[Foundational-Climate Change]]
 ===== Land-based sensors reveal high frequency of coastal flooding =====
 [https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02326-w by Miyuki Hino 2/6/25 Communications earth & environment]
   Rising sea levels threaten to inundate coastal communities globally, with 190-340 M people at risk of inundation by the end of the century1. Long before communities are permanently inundated, they begin to experience chronic flooding. With higher average sea levels, tides alone cause sunny-day flooding2,3. Tides also now impair stormwater drainage systems such that ordinary rain storms lead to flooding4,5. While rates of sea-level rise and its potential impacts have been well documented, data on the frequency of such floods occurring outside of extreme storms are scarce. Instead, estimates of coastal flood frequency based on tide gauge and elevation data are widely used: once water levels as measured at the tide gauge exceed a certain elevation threshold, flooding on land is inferred.
+# [[Sea Level Rise]]
 ===== Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets =====
 [https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02299-w by Chris R.Strokes 20/5/25 Communications earth & environment]
-  Global mean sea level (GMSL) increased by around 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, with the rate of change accelerating from ~1.4 mm year−1 (1901–1990) to ~3.7 mm year−1 (2006–2018)1 and, most recently, to 4.5 mm year−1 (2023)2. Several processes contribute to sea-level rise (SLR), but melting of glaciers and ice sheets is the dominant source, adding ~1.6 mm year−1 from 2006 to 2018, and now exceeding thermal expansion of the oceans (~1.4 mm year−1)1. Smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps dominated the cryosphere’s contribution to GMSL rise during the 20th Century1,3,4,5 and they will continue to shrink rapidly1,6, with profound impacts on water resources and human activities.
+  Global mean sea level (GMSL) increased by around 20 cm from 1901 to 2018, with the rate of change accelerating from ~1.4 mm year−1 (1901–1990) to ~3.7 mm year−1 (2006–2018)1 and, most recently, to 4.5 mm year−1 (2023)2. Several processes contribute to sea-level rise (SLR), but melting of glaciers and ice sheets is the dominant source, adding ~1.6 mm year−1 from 2006 to 2018, and now exceeding thermal expansion of the oceans (~1.4 mm year−1)1. Smaller mountain glaciers and ice caps dominated the cryosphere’s contribution to GMSL rise during the 20th Century1,3,4,5 and they will continue to shrink rapidly1,6, with profound impacts on water resources and human activities
+# [[Polar Melting]]
 ===== Children die as USAID aid cuts snap a lifeline for the world’s most malnourished =====
 [https://apnews.com/article/usaid-funding-cuts-humanitarian-children-trump-4447e210c4b5543b8ebb9a6b9e01aa53 by Taiwo Adebayo 15/5/25 AP]
   For years, the United States Agency for International Development had been the backbone of the humanitarian response in northeastern Nigeria, helping non-government organizations provide food, shelter and healthcare to millions of people. But this year, the Trump administration cut more than 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall assistance around the world.
+[[Health Care-Prevention]]
-===== The Tennessee representative Rusty Grills says the lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings. =====
+===== People were repressed into silence’: the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism’s horrors =====
 [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/paco-roca-comic-artist-madrid-franco-fascism-exhibition by Sam Jones 5/6/25 The Guardian]
   The map of Paco Roca’s mind, a landscape of memory and loss, unfolds across the walls of an exhibition hall in Madrid, inviting visitors to acquaint themselves with the bittersweet geographies that have shaped the work of one of Spain’s best-known graphic
+[[Free Expression-Art]]
 ===== How the little-known ‘dark roof’ lobby may be making US cities hotter =====
 [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/01/dark-roof-lobby by Ames Alexander 1/6/25 The Guardian]
   The Tennessee representative Rusty Grills says the lobbyist proposed a simple idea: repeal the state’s requirement for reflective roofs on many commercial buildings.
+[[Economy-Energy Sector]]
 ===== ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects =====
 [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe by Tess McClure 3/6/25 The Guardian]
   Daniel Janzen only began watching the insects – truly watching them – when his ribcage was shattered. Nearly half a century ago, the young ecologist had been out documenting fruit crops in a dense stretch of Costa Rican forest when he fell in a ravine, landing on his back. The long lens of his camera punched up through three ribs, snapping the bones into his thorax.
+[[Environment-Biodiversity]]
 ===== Children need the freedom to play on driveways and streets again – here’s how to make it happen =====
 [https://theconversation.com/children-need-the-freedom-to-play-on-driveways-and-streets-again-heres-how-to-make-it-happen-254543 by Debbie Watson 4/6/25 THE CONVERSATION]
   In many cases, children don’t have easy access to purpose-built spaces like playgrounds. They need adults to get them there. Without the use of more informal spaces to spend time with other children, this means they often lack daily opportunities for play.
+[[Health Care-Mental Health]]
 ===== Dry mouth, bad breath and tooth damage: the effects Ozempic and Wegovy can have on your mouth =====
 [https://theconversation.com/dry-mouth-bad-breath-and-tooth-damage-the-effects-ozempic-and-wegovy-can-have-on-your-mouth-257859 by Adam Taylor 4/6/25 THE CONVERSATION]
   Ozempic and Wegovy have been hailed as wonder drugs when it comes to weight loss. But as the drug has become more widely used, a number of unintended side-effects have become apparent – with the weight loss drug affecting the appearance of everything from your butt to your feet.
+[[Health Care-Illness]]
 ===== Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing =====
 [https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding by Matt Krupnick 3/6/25 PROPUBLICA]
   The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
+[[Education-Racism]]
 ===== Scenic forest trails near Santa Cruz to open to the public for the first time =====