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How communities persevere through climate catastrophe

It can be hard in 2022 to look at climate issues and not feel despair. But across the country, communities are persevering through our new climate reality.
- John Ryan
Why keeping girls in school is a good strategy to cope with climate change

Education for girls brings numerous benefits when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. Oh, and it works for boys, too!
- Anya Kamenetz
China plans to use chemicals to generate rain to protect its grain harvest

The hottest, driest summer since the government began recording rainfall and temperature 61 years ago has wilted crops and left reservoirs at half their normal water level.
- The Associated Press
Deepwater diesel cleanup stalls at San Juans shipwreck

U.S. Coast Guard officials say divers won’t be able to reach the Aleutian Isle, a sunken fishing boat off San Juan Island, until next week.
- John Ryan
States dependent on Colorado River wonder if desalination could help the water supply

Severe drought has states dependent on the Colorado River looking at alternatives. Desalinating seawater may be a viable supplement to some areas, but likely can't fix much of the river's deficit.
- Alex Hager
Seattle just had one of its hottest nights on record

The nightly temperature reached 71 degrees Fahrenheit, one of only three nights in the city's climate record where the nighttime temperature rose above 70 degrees.
- Ayana Archie
The Biden administration aims to make nature a measurable part of the U.S. economy

Environmental damage is a threat to the global economy but it's hardly counted in economic figures like the GDP. The Biden administration is unveiling an effort to give a more holistic accounting.
- Nathan Rott
'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

A pair of documentaries glean what it can from a pre-WWII home movie and Indigenous efforts to halt the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
- Bob Mondello
Second heat wave of 2022 hits Northwest. A third is in the forecast

Much of the Pacific Northwest is under a heat advisory or heat warning through Thursday night.
- John Ryan
Fishing vessel sinks off San Juan Islands, leaking fuel

At 2:00pm on Saturday the U.S. Coast Guard received a distress call from a commercial fishing vessel named the Aleutian Isle. The vessel was near the San Juan Islands and taking on water. The crew onboard evacuated to a small skiff before being picked up by a good Samaritan, and the Aleutian Isle eventually sank to the sea floor, where it remains today.
- Hans Anderson

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