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AP
Fierce winds hit US Pacific territories as Super Typhoon Bavi approaches near Guam

Arizona Star
Colorado River water savings plan minimizes pain for Arizona users

Ars Technica
Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules

Big Island Now
Lost reef recreation because of climate change could cost Hawaiʻi up to $3 billion by beginning of next century

CBS News
Lake Pueblo State Park in southern Colorado asks boaters to steer clear of firefighting aircraft scooping water

Colorado Sun
Damage assessment teams begin work in Aspen Acres fire zone as weather gives firefighters an edge
Aspen Acres fire grows to 87,000 acres as firefighting force expands on Fourth of July holiday
Want to dive into Western water? Here’s a summer reading list from the experts.

Common Dreams
'Climate Change Is Here': Wildfires Ignite Across Europe Following Deadly Heatwave

Conversation
Moving forests to save them: Here are the risks and rewards of assisted tree migration

The Cool Down
Lake Pueblo State Park in southern Colorado asks boaters to steer clear of firefighting aircraft scooping water

Coyote Gulch
This year’s ‘peak:’ record-low runoff leaves reservoirs far below normal; Dillon, Williams Fork and Antero reservoirs hit hard — Jay Adams (DenverWater.org) #SouthPlatteRiver #ColoradoRiver
New #Colorado state law requires cities, water users to revegetate farmland before using water elsewhere — Rocky Mountain PBS #ArkansasRiver
How sports betting became #Colorado’s ticket to funding $140 million in water #conservation projects: Colorado’s gamblers are paying for new irrigation systems, reservoirs and water research studies — The #Denver Post
In revitalizing the #ColoradoRiver Delta, a little goes a long way — Daniel Stolte (University of #Arizona) #COriver #aridification
Archuleta County adopts septic system requirements — The #PagosaSprings Sun #SanJuanRiver
Some good #ColoradoRiver news, some bad news, and a request for help — John Fleck (InkStain.net) #COriver #aridification
USDA chief: Give me more cattle in the national forests!; Plus a Messing with Maps look back at the summer of 1776 — Jonathan P. Thompson

Denver Gazette
It was a ‘good day for firefighting’: Aspen Acres fire’s growth slows

GJ Daily Sentinel
Western Slope lawmakers take Colorado River managers to task
Are less-thirsty crops a solution to Colorado’s growing water problems?

Grist
Los Angeles turns ‘most polluting’ World Cup into Olympic rehearsal in bid for climate legacy
A New Mexico town is running dry. An immigration detention center is its biggest water customer.

LA Times
July Fourth fireworks may bring 'hazardous' air quality to Southern California. What you need to know

NPR
A rare flower is in a superbloom in the Rocky Mountains

NY Times
Trump Pardons Violators of the Clean Air Act and a Major Donor

Phys.org
European cities short on shade as heat waves hit, urban mapping reveals
'Very dangerous' super typhoon nears US Pacific islands
'This was something new': What people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires
Greenland meltwater adds to AMOC weakening, but updated model finds no tipping point in sight
BC and Alberta fall behind on fracking safety distances for residents
Rising seas make once-rare coastal floods 12 times more likely
El Nino set to be 'strong', UN warns
One for the history books: What we know about the European heat wave
Dangerous heat wave roasts America's big birthday party

Science Daily
New research reveals the hidden pollution left behind by fireworks
A popular climate fix could accidentally trigger massive changes to global weather  Brightening marine clouds over the eastern Pacific could dramatically weaken the El Niño cycle, triggering major changes to global weather patterns, while stratospheric aerosol injection left the system largely unchanged.

Space Daily
Cooling a data centre on Earth can consume 10 to 30 per cent of its energy budget and millions of litres of water; in orbit, there is no air, no cooling towers, and no river to dump heat into — only vast radiator panels bleeding waste heat away as infrared light into the blackness of space

Summit Daily
How to prepare for each stage of 'Ready. Set. Go!' wildfire evacuation protocols

The Verge
White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US

Truthout
Mark Carney Unveils $35 Billion Canadian Pipeline Project as Climate Crisis Accelerates

Washington Post vian MSN
As blazes rage out West, federal firefighters describe a mounting strain

Yahoo
Europe's Hottest June on Record Traced to Climate Change

The Guardian
Why can’t Britain turn its green revolution into cheap energy? A visual analysis
Norfolk Island’s unique corals under triple threat from disease, El Niño and now government-approved dredging 
Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate
Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks?
Empty reservoirs, ladybirds and sunstroke: remembering the UK heatwave of 1976
From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up
Not cool: the air conditioning scams offering fake deals in the heatwave
Overcrowded and underfunded: Trump’s cuts to national parks threaten the US’s ‘best idea’
As auto costs rise, will the US miss the golden age of electric vehicles?
The fight against green ‘waste’: how a Victorian community came together to create garden gold

BBC
Devon village facing 'existential' threat from climate change
Turbines turning from wind to sustainable products
UK temperatures forecast to exceed 30C as another heatwave imminent
'Hotter and hotter and hotter' - Europe's new climate in seven charts
Scientist dubbed The Bogfather is restoring peatland to fight climate change

Irish Independent
Letters: Ireland can’t carry the can for climate change

Le Monde

Climate change: 'We cannot meet the challenge of adapting housing with the tools of the past. A thorough overhaul is needed'


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