<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><table style="font-variant-caps: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 18px 0px 12px; vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(228, 228, 228);"><span style="padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/idkt_leave-the-leaves.htm&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBCoUMTI2NTkwNTM2MzQ3NDU4OTI3MTAyGjJmNTVkYmYwNWFiN2RmOWM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw07b085WYGSfF2R6r9MFRfI" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?rct%3Dj%26sa%3Dt%26url%3Dhttps://www.nps.gov/articles/000/idkt_leave-the-leaves.htm%26ct%3Dga%26cd%3DCAEYBCoUMTI2NTkwNTM2MzQ3NDU4OTI3MTAyGjJmNTVkYmYwNWFiN2RmOWM6Y29tOmVuOlVT%26usg%3DAOvVaw07b085WYGSfF2R6r9MFRfI&source=gmail&ust=1758900696045000&usg=AOvVaw0P_DuJcgWbcTk1QHoPcHl5" style="color: rgb(66, 127, 237); display: inline; text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;"><font face="Verdana">I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves (U.S. National Park Service)</font></a></span><div><div style="padding: 2px 0px 8px;"><div style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><a style="color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 14px;">National Park Service</font></a></div><div style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); padding: 2px 0px 0px; line-height: 18px;"><font face="Verdana" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">Leaving leaf litter on the ground helps <b>pollinators</b> survive the winter</span>! </font><span style="font-size: 12px;">NPS / Billy Flynn. A cozy blanket for </span><b style="font-size: 12px;">pollinators</b><span style="font-size: 12px;">. For many insects, leaf ...</span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">~~~~~~~~</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">\u201c<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> \u2026. our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.\u201d</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br></span></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camilo Mora et al. Twenty-Seven Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You: Deadly Heat in the Era of Climate Change. <i>Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes </i></span>9 November 2017</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(14, 119, 68); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; orphans: 2; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><<https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233></span></p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">*****************</span></p><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Precipitation is just the supply side," said study coauthor Jason Smerdon, a Lamont-Doherty paleoclimatologist. "Temperature is on the demand side, the part that dries things out."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">"If we don't see it coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right," said [ lead author Kate ] Marvel. "But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><<<a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php</span></a>>></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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