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High Country News: ‘Every part of a degree of warming that we can avert will make the future better’
Amy Snover, researcher and director of the Climate Impacts Group, explains why the IPCC report matters, what it says about climate change in the Northwest, and how communities can prepare.
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Crosscut: More mosquitoes in WA could come with hotter, longer summers
Climatologists, entomologists and public health experts worry our sunny, mostly bugless summers in the PNW could soon be a thing of the past. Cory Morin and Nick Bond were quoted regarding their Innovation Grant-funded project, Assessing Climate Driven Zoonotic Disease Risk in Washington State.
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UW News: With extreme heat increasingly common, UW expert calls for urgent planning to protect health in new Lancet series
Professor Kristie Ebi with the Center for Health and the Global Environment co-leads a new series on increasingly common extreme heat waves and their impact on human health.
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New UW collaboratory to support equitable and just climate action
An interdisciplinary group of University of Washington researchers has teamed with Front and Centered to create an innovative Collaboratory to promote just and equitable climate action.
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Now available: Two new Spanish-Language report translations on climate impacts in Washington
Prolonged wildfire seasons, more extreme temperatures, and more frequent floods — these are just some of the symptoms of a greater global warming problem that Washingtonians are witnessing at a higher frequency. Although these climate changes impact everyone throughout our state’s economy and ecosystems, the extent that communities are personally impacted by such experiences highlight the ways that traditionally overlooked communities continue to be disproportionately affected in the aftermath.
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Carbon in Earth's atmosphere reaches highest mark in modern history, scientists say
"This past year’s slowing of greenhouse gas emissions was like turning down the tap just a little bit on a bathtub that’s already overflowing. Stopping the damage requires turning off the tap completely." Amy Snover, UW Climate Impacts Group director was quoted in the story.
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Apply Now to the APRU-UW Student Global Climate Change Simulation
Experience what it’s like to be a delegate at the 2021 UN Climate Change Negotiations. All current UW students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, are encouraged to apply by June 9, 2021.
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Population health grants boost wildfire and climate research
In addition the the EarthLab-Population Health grant awarded to "Characterizing risk communication around smoke exposure in rural and tribal communities in the Okanogan River airshed emphasis area," EarthLab celebrates member organization directors Jeremy Hess (Climate Health and the Global Environment) and Jason Vogel (Climate Impacts Group) for their newly funded project, "A collaboratory to support equitable and just climate action"
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For tribes, climate change fight is about saving culture
Climate Impacts Group Meade Crosby was quoted in this article.
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Pending Job Openings in Climate Variability, Change, Impacts, and Adaptation
The Climate Adaptation Science Center network is preparing for several positions to come available in the next year, focused on the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems, natural resources, cultural resources, infrastructure, tribal lands and waters, urban and rural settlements and economic development. The network is seeking contact information for scholars with experience and interest in these subjects, as well as in developing actionable science with stakeholders with demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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