Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Monday, Sept. 6, 2021
AP News: Treasured US West trout streams wither amid heat, drought
AP News: Evacuations lifted for thousands in Tahoe as wildfire stalls today
The Guardian: ‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers
The Guardian: ‘Sex isn’t difficult any more’: the men who are quitting watching porn
Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021
NY Times: Opinion: We Are Becoming a Nation of Vigilantes
Politico: Automakers gear up for an all-electric future
Washington Post: Before and after: Photos show once-pristine South Lake Tahoe smothered in Caldor Fire’s smoke
Washington Post: Why America has 8.4 million unemployed when there are 10 million job openings
The Guardian: How a Tahoe refuge saved owls, coyotes and raccoons from wildfire
The Guardian: Toxic algae leads to closure of river areas near where California family died
The Guardian: Taliban break up Afghan women’s rights march with gunfire
The Guardian: Hurricane Ida death toll nears 60 as states begin to comb through debris
The Oregonian: Cops: 14 arrested, 1,400 pounds of pot seized at illegal Oregon marijuana grow operations
The Oregonian: Mexican drug cartel’s illegal marijuana grow operation raided in Deschutes County
The Oregonian: 4.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off Oregon coast
LA Times: Drought has farmworkers dreaming of escape from California’s breadbasket
LA Times: The big change coming to California neighborhoods
Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021
BBC: Why China's bitcoin miners are moving to Texas
NPR: Federal Health Officials Want The White House To Slow Its COVID Booster Shot Rollout
NPR: Curtis Flowers Sues The DA Who Put Him On Trial 6 Times
The Atlantic: What We Actually Know About Waning Immunity
NY Times: Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries. How Is That Possible?
NY Times: Satellite Images Find Oil Spill in Gulf Left in Ida’s Wake
Washington Post: Burying power lines isn’t the only way to weatherproof the grid
The Guardian: ‘You’re poisoning us’: Ida brings fresh hell for Cancer Alley residents already battling pollution
The Guardian: UK politicians may defy vaccine board and go ahead with Covid jabs for all 12- to 15-year-olds
LA Times: U.S. appeals court says L.A. can’t seize and discard homeless people’s bulky property
LA Times: CSU to create an immersive tech hub to recruit Latinos, others into STEM fields
LA Times: Security of some ballot-marking devices could be vulnerable in California recall, researchers say
LA Times: L.A. firefighters, police officers dig in heels over vaccination mandate
Press Democrat: North Coast lawmakers gearing up to battle coal export proposal tied to Humboldt
KRCR: U.S. Army deployed to Dixie Fire, commander says chances of putting it out now more likely
KRCR: Monument Fire 35% contained after burning over 178,000 acres
Mt. Shasta News: California fire update: 2020 fires could reach 2M acres; Dixie Fire sprawls over 870 miles
SFGate: Nearly 500,000 gallons of water and retardant dumped on Caldor Fire
Friday, Sept. 3, 2021
MIT Reader: Opinion: How American Environmentalism Failed
Jalopnik: Here's Another Reminder That The Police Can Just Steal Your Money
Gizmodo: This Normal-Looking Lightning Cable Actually Steals All of Your Data
The Oregonian: After Idaho governor asks people to get COVID vaccine, his lieutenant governor calls the suggestion ‘shameful’
The Guardian: What I learned visiting Alaska’s only maximum-security prison
The Oregonian: Rural Oregon school superintendent fired after enforcing state mask mandate
KRCR: Ivermectin flying off shelves in Redding despite warnings from health officials
Press Democrat: As drought-parched summer vanishes in a shroud of wildfire smoke, so does peace of mind
LA Times: First the flames, then the fees: Caldor fire evacuees report price-gouging
Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021
NY Post: Amazon tells delivery partners not to screen for marijuana amid labor shortage
The Hill: House committee votes to temporarily postpone Space Command relocation
The Guardian: Why won’t US TV news say ‘climate change’?
The Guardian: Reservation Dogs: a groundbreaking, hilarious sitcom about Native American teens
The Guardian: North Carolina school shooting leaves one dead with suspect in custody