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BellingenNSW

Learning interrupted

"Climate shocks are disrupting children’s education, putting their learning and their futures at risk."

"A new UNICEF analysis reveals that at least 242 million students in 85 countries or territories had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods and droughts in 2024, exacerbating an existing learning crisis."
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unicef.org/reports/learning-in
#FossilFuels #climate #impacts #disruption #education #children #floods #droughts #heatwaves #bushfires #storms #hazards #Intergenerationaljustice #UNICEF

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Postfire Debris-Flow Hazards
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usgs.gov/programs/landslide-ha <-- shared technical article / overview
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alturl.com/po3yj <-- USGS Post-Fire Debris Flow Hazard Assessment Viewer
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earthquake.usgs.gov/arcgis/res <-- Post-Fire Debris-Flow Hazards USGS spatial data / GIS Services
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #USGS #LandslideHazardsProgram #NaturalHazards #3DEP #NGP #NationalGeospatialProgram #GIRT #GeospatialInformationResponseTeam #GIS #geology #hydrospatial #hydrology #landslides #debrisflows #fires #postfire #lidar #elevationdata #hazardassessments #preparedness #massmovement #engineeringgeology #risk #hazards #impacts #cost #economics #geomorphology #geomorphometry #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #remotesensing #soil #model #modeling #LosAngeles #LA #LosAngelesfires #California #wildfires #opendata
@USGS

photo - A home damaged by the January 9, 2018 debris flow event in Montecito, California. The event was triggered by heavy rain on the Thomas Fire burn area above Montecito. This home is located near Buena Vista Creek.
screen shot centered on LA - USGS Post-Fire Debris Flow Hazard Assessment Viewer (web map)
photo - Debris Flow in Cable Canyon following the 2003 Old Fire in the San Bernardino Mountains, California
photo - Post-fire debris flow depositing ash and sediment on a steep hillside, 2021 Dixie Fire in northern CA
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CBC Canada

No coast was spared from 2024's extreme weather impacts
From hail to heatwaves, Environment and Climate Change Canada released its top 10 weather stories of 2024. From the north’s unusual heatwave to Alberta’s damaging hailstorm, the effects were noticeable — and costly.
#weather #climatechange #impacts #Canada #Alberta #News #Science
cbc.ca/news/science/top-10-wea

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Chuck Darwin

Federal judge rolls back key #civil #rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘#sacrifice #zones’

The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit

James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by president Trump,
decided to
block the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice from pursuing enforcement actions based on
“#disparate #impacts”
— or the idea that a 🔸regulation might disproportionately harm one group of people over another. 🔸

A provision of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as #TitleVI allows federal agencies to take action against state policies and programs that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

Since the EPA’s founding in 1970, however, the agency allowed most of the Title VI complaints that it received to languish without resolution.

In 2015, a coalition of community groups in Louisiana,
with the assistance of the public-interest environmental law organization #Earthjustice,
sued the agency for this practice and won.

Five years later, after president Biden took office,
✅federal regulators finally began addressing the civil rights complaints they received and
✅the EPA announced a civil-rights #probe into #Cancer #Alley
— a stretch of land on the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where
💥over 150 chemical plants pump cancer-causing chemicals into the air of predominantly Black communities💥
— marking 💪🏽a new phase of the agency’s use of Title VI.

The federal government was making significant progress with Louisiana officials in their Title VI negotiations:

Cancer Alley residents’ principle demand
— that state regulators assess whether a community is already exposed to disproportionately high levels of pollution before permitting a new project there
— had made it into a draft resolution document.

❗️But at a certain point in the process, sources told Grist, the talks broke down.

⚠️Then in May 2023, #Jeff #Landry, then the attorney general (and now the #governor) of Louisiana,
filed a lawsuit against the EPA.

On the basis that the agency was overstepping its authority, 💥Landry’s suit challenged not only the EPA’s use of Title VI to regulate pollution in Louisiana,
but 💥also the very legal justification of "#disparate-#impacts" regulation, 👉which reaches thousands of programs across the country
👉and can be used to adjudicate decisions as varied as where a new highway can go or whether a housing practice is discriminatory.

🆘Advocates worried that the lawsuit had the potential to unravel decades of civil rights law.

Judge Cain’s final judgment concurs with Landry’s argument.

🔥In effect, the ruling will make it impossible for the EPA to pursue enforcement actions based on disparate impacts
— but only in Louisiana.

Cain’s judgment comes in the same week as ❗️the EPA’s new Title VI guidance,
which urges state and local regulators to establish safeguards that protect their constituents against discrimination.
grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-

Grist · Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’By Lylla Younes
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Recently Completed Geophysical Survey Will Help Protect Critical Infrastructure From Geomagnetic Storms And Space Weather
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usgs.gov/news/national-news-re <-- shared technical article
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[my other ½ is a space weather scientist, until I knew her I was not fully aware of all the risks and associated hazards associated with space weather]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spaceweather #power #telecom #critical #infrastructure #risk #hazard #geomagnetic #geomagneticstorm #geomagnetism #minerals #geothermal #mining #earth #electricpower #powergrid #impacts #conductivity #USMTArray #magnetotellurics #geology #rocks #geophysics #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #array #USA #hazardanalysis #powersystems #transformers #powerfailures #lossofpower #blackouts #overloads
@USGS @NSF @nasa @EarthScope @NOAA

map - Complete USMTArray and community magnetotelluric surveys in North America as of June 27, 2024. Magnetotelluric sites are distributed across the continental US and are represented with hundreds of inverted triangles including orange (EarthScope), blue (MTArray), red (NRCan Lithoprobe), black (USGS) and clear (other surveys). Magetic observatories are indicated with stars, three red (NRCan) and six black (USGS). Ten USGS variometers are indicated with pink 4-point stars.
graphic / schematic - spaceweather possible impacts
photo - Northern Lights over high voltage powerlines
screenshot - NOAA space weather prediction center geoelectric field map model
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beSpacific

According to reports about 95% of U.S. #teens have access to #smartphones use the #internet daily, which for most includes #socialmedia & #messaging platforms. This ubiquity has raised much concern about its contribution to a #teen #mentalhealth #crisis among #parents #educators #legislators Research paints a more complex picture of the #impacts of social media and messaging, finding both benefits and risks to young people. cdt.org/insights/more-tools-mo

Center for Democracy and TechnologyMore Tools, More Control: Lessons from Young Users on Handling Unwanted Messages OnlineExecutive Summary According to reports, about 95% of U.S. teens have access to smartphones and use the internet daily, which for most includes social media and messaging platforms (Vogels et al., 2022; Nesi et al., 2023). This ubiquity has raised much concern about its contribution to a teen mental health crisis among parents, educators, and […]
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