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Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021

The Guardian: Documenting American wilderness – in pictures

Reuters: How the pandemic laid bare America’s diabetes crisis

NBC News: Three volcanoes are erupting at the same time in Alaska

NY Post: Death toll from Turkish floods climbs with hundreds missing

Action News Now: The Monument Fire has burned 79,000 acres as containment has remained at 5%.

NY Times: A Sicilian Town Sends an Omen of a Much Hotter Future

The Atlantic: Defensible Space: When Your Yard Can Kill You

NY Times: What Do Teenagers Need? Ask the Family Dog

NY Times: The Long, Slow Drowning of the New Jersey Shore

Washington Post: Ben Franklin’s bitter regret that he didn’t immunize his 4-year-old son against smallpox

NPR: Photos: Scenes From The Haiti Earthquake

KTLA: One person killed, others injured in 9-vehicle crash in Santa Monica

KTLA: 1 stabbed at Los Angeles City Hall anti-vaccine protest: LAPD

KRCR: Dixie Fire grows to more than 552,000 acres, remains 31% contained

Las Vegas Sun: Plan for housing near Red Rock Canyon gets permit OK despite objections

ABC News: Lawsuit: US withholding wildfire fuel break information

Press Democrat: Sonoma County voters say yes to cannabis, but are wary of cultivators

The Guardian: Spain launches inquiry after dams drained for profit during drought

The Guardian: Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing

The Guardian: Rise of cryptocurrencies can be traced to Nixon abandoning gold in 1971

The Guardian: It’s now or never: Scientists warn time of reckoning has come for the planet

Rolling Stone: Live Nation to Require Vaccination or Negative Test at All Venues, Festivals

NBC News: Torrential rain lashes Japan submerging buildings, at least 3 feared dead

Fox News: Utah wildfire leads to evacuation orders for 6,000 homes

NPR: Computer Models Of Civilization Offer Routes To Ending Global Warming

Slate: Vast Stretches of America Are Shrinking. Almost All of Them Voted for Trump.

NBC News: Person stabbed as vaccination demonstrators clash outside Los Angeles City Hall

LA Times: No tsunami warning issued as magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes off Alaska

Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021

San Jose Mercury News: ‘She astonishes me’: How an astrophysicist is helping the Oakland A’s fine-tune their pitches

Reuters: California DOJ drops criminal charges against SoCal utility over role in igniting 2018 fire

Reuters: Major earthquake in Haiti felt across Caribbean, sparks tsunami warning

The Guardian: ‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots

The Guardian: Million urged to seek shelter as floods and landslides hit Japan

The Guardian: Wisconsin says hunters can kill 300 wolves this fall against biologists’ advice

Washington Post: New study links wildfire smoke to increases in covid-19 cases, deaths

Washington Post: Spread of delta variant ignites covid hot spots in highly vaccinated parts of the U.S., Post analysis finds

The Hill: Canada plans to take in 20,000 Afghans to protect them from Taliban

NY Times: In the West, a Connection Between Covid and Wildfires

NY Times: Small Towns Grow Desperate for Water in California

NY Times: Oregon plans to send at least 500 National Guard troops to aid hospitals.

NY Times: What We Think We Know About Metabolism May Be Wrong

Digg: Here's A Hard Dose Of Reality About How Recycling Is A Scam

The Atlantic: The Fastest-Growing Group of American Evangelicals: Latino Protestants

San Jose Mercury News: Apple to address homeless encampment on San Jose property

San Jose Mercury News: Northern California teacher beaten up by dad angered by masking of child

LA Times: Coronavirus case rate among unvaccinated Californians is six times that of the vaccinated

LA Times: Former Adelanto mayor charged in marijuana bribery scheme

LA Times: Column: Here’s what I got wrong about the Newsom recall circus

Fresno Bee: This Fresno company is big in the #Vanlife world — and now they’ve got a new start

Press Democrat: Guerneville coffeehouse tries to skirt mask rules by charging membership fee