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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><i class=""></i><a href="https://www.nature.com/natsustain" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class="">Nature Sustainability</i></span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#article-info" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class=""> 05 January 2023</span></a></span></li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Jiabo-Yin" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Jiabo Yin</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class="">, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Pierre-Gentine" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Pierre Gentine</span></a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Louise-Slater" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Louise Slater</span></a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Lei-Gu" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Lei Gu</span></a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Yadu-Pokhrel" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Yadu Pokhrel</span></a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Naota-Hanasaki" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Naota Hanasaki</span></a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Shenglian-Guo" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Shenglian Guo</span></a>, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Lihua-Xiong" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Lihua Xiong</span></a> & <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-01024-1#auth-Wolfram-Schlenker" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(10, 82, 135); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(10, 82, 135);" class="">Wolfram Schlenker</span></a> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><br class="">
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</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Abstract</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Compound drought–heatwave (CDHW) events are one of the worst climatic stressors for global sustainable development</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">. However, the physical mechanisms behind CDHWs and their impacts on socio-ecosystem productivity remain poorly understood. Here, using simulations from a large climate–hydrology model ensemble of 111 members, we demonstrate that the frequency of extreme CDHWs is projected to increase by tenfold globally under the highest emissions scenario, along </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">with </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 253, 255);" class="">a disproportionate negative impact on vegetation and socio-economic productivit</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">y </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">by the late twenty-first century. By combining satellite observations, field measurements and reanalysis, we show that terrestrial water storage and temperature are negatively coupled, probably driven by similar atmospheric conditions (for example, water vapour deficit and energy demand). Limits on water availability are likely to play a more important role in constraining the terrestrial carbon sink than temperature extremes, and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">over 90% of the global population and gross domestic product c</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">ould be exposed to increasing CDHW risks in the future, with more severe impacts in poorer and more rural areas</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> Our results provide crucial insights towards assessing and mitigating adverse effects of compound hazards on ecosystems and human well-being.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(253, 128, 8); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">****************************</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">Spring heat waves</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""> drive record western United States snow melt in 2021</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Daniel J McEvoy2,1 and Benjamin J Hatchett1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; color: #094fd1" class=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326" class="">Environmental Research Letters</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Published 5 January 2023 • © 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">DOI</b> 10.1088/1748-9326/aca8bd</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: center; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(174, 0, 8); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">OPEN ACCESS</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aca8bd/pdf" class="">Article PDF</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #1d1d1d; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">84</b> Total downloads</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Abstract</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class="">Throughout the </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class="">western US snow melted at an alarming rate in April 2021 and by May 1,</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class=""> hydrologic conditions were severely degraded </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class="">with declining summer water supply forecasts compared to earlier in the winter.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> The objectives of this study are to (a) quantify the magnitude and climatological context of observed melt rates of snow water equivalent (SWE) and (b) underpin the hydrometeorological drivers during April 2021 based on atmospheric reanalysis and gridded meteorological data. Peak SWE indicated snow drought conditions were widespread (41% of stations between 5th and 20th percentile) but not necessarily extreme (only 9% of stations less than 5th percentile). Here, using observations from the Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) network we found record 7 day snow melt rates (median of −99 mm; ±one standard deviation of 61 mm) occurred at 24% of SNOTEL sites and in all 11 Western states. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class="">Strong upper atmospheric ridging that</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class=""> began initially in the north Pacific </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class="">with eastward propagation by mid-April to the Pacific Northwest Coast</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class=""> led to near-surface conditions across the western US conducive to rapid snow loss.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class="">One heat wave occurred inland across the Rockies the first week of April and then later in April, a second heat wave impacted the Cascades and northern California</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">. We find that ripening of the snowpack by</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class=""> both</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> record high surface solar radiation</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class="">and </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">air temperatures were factors in driving the rapid snow melt. Equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class="">and </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the La Niña pattern that peaked in winter </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class="">along with</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class=""> </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">an eastward propagating and intensifying Madden–Julian Oscillation </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0f" class="">were likely responsible for driving the placement, strength, and progression of the north Pacific Ridge.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> This study documents the role of</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #21ffff" class=""> two extreme spring 'sunny heat wave' </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">events on snowpack, and the cascading drought impacts which are anticipated to become more frequent in a warming world.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">********************************</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">ABC News January 5, 2023</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">National Bird Day: These are some of the species most at risk of extinction in the US</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">"It's a tough time to be a bird right now," one expert said.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class="">By <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/author/julia_jacobo" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Julia Jacobo</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">Opening paragraphs</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">As the United States marks National Bird Day on Jan. 5, the majority of bird species in the U.S. face a grim future in coming decades if environmental efforts, such as mitigating climate change and decreasing habitat degradation and loss, are not implemented on a larger scale.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">More than half of bird species in the U.S. are in decline, with plummeting populations across nearly all habitats, </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">according to the U.S. North American Bird Conservation Initiative's <a href="https://www.stateofthebirds.org/2022/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">2022 State of the Birds</span></a> report published in October.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">About 70 species of birds have lost at least half of their populations in the past 50 years, and are poised to lose the other half in the next half-century if conservation efforts are not significantly ramped up, the report states. Those 70 species are not yet listed as threatened or endangered, but are at a tipping point, according to the report.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">"It's a tough time to be a bird right now,"</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Dustin Partridge, director of conservation science at New York City Audubon, told ABC News.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(33, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Birds face human-induced threats, such as climate change, disruption of natural systems, habitat loss, poaching, poisoning, outdoor cats, collisions into glass windows and the severe decline of bug populations, which many bird species feed on, according to experts.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">But it's important to note that because of the significant challenges all birds face, there should not be individual focus on saving one species of bird, but aim to promote the conservation of all, Partridge said.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/national-bird-day-species-risk-extinction-us/story?id=96131401" class="">https://abcnews.go.com/International/national-bird-day-species-risk-extinction-us/story?id=96131401</a></span></div><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div>**********************************<br class="">“Undoing the Clean Power Plan could be just the beginning … Also in the crosshairs are many other environmental statutes passed in the 1970s, <br class="">such as the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.”<br class=""><br class="">“Preservation of these statutes must not get lost in the potential clamor over the Clean Power Plan. They are the foundation of environmental policy <br class="">and were the response to dangerous environmental degradation. With hostility toward these regulations at the federal level, vigilant focus on these <br class="">laws is required at the state and local level as well as by the broader public.”<br class=""><br class="">Rood, R. B. (2016), Take the long view on environmental issues in the age of Trump<br class=""><br class="">Eos,Published on 01 December 2016. <br class=""><<<a href="https://eos.org/opinions/take-the-long-view-on-environmental-issues-in-the-age-of-trump" class="">https://eos.org/opinions/take-the-long-view-on-environmental-issues-in-the-age-of-trump</a>>><br class=""><br class=""></div>
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