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At least 4 dead as cyclone Isaias drenches southern U.S. #UnitedStates

At least 4 dead as cyclone Isaias drenches southern U.S.
Four people died in the southeastern United States as post-tropical cyclone Isaias posed flooding and tornado risks Saturday as it moved northward after making landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast.

When U.S. embassies stopped reporting air quality, pollution rose #UnitedStates

When U.S. embassies stopped reporting air quality, pollution rose
For more than a decade, U.S. embassies and consulates provided independent, publicly available air-quality readings in cities around the world.

Tens of thousands flee fire near U.S. city of Reno #UnitedStates

Tens of thousands flee fire near U.S. city of Reno
Tens of thousands of people looked set to spend another night away from home Monday as a wind-driven fire bore down on the western U.S. city of Reno.

Long-term study finds widespread lithium in drinking water across communities in the western U.S. https://phys.org/news/2026-07-term-widespread-lithium-communities-western.html

Long-term study finds widespread lithium in drinking water across communities in the western U.S.
Lithium in drinking water is a widespread and persistent source of human exposure across Tribal communities in the Western United States, according to a new study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The findings document substantial regional variation in exposure and provide some of the strongest evidence to date that household drinking water is a major contributor to lithium levels measured in the body.

US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging #UnitedStates

US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed a rule change that would open 44 million acres (about 68,750 square miles) of wild, undisturbed forest for road construction and logging.

Brutal heat wave forecast for western US this weekend #UnitedStates

Brutal heat wave forecast for western US this weekend
A "widespread and significant" heat wave is predicted to bring oppressive temperatures to drought-hit western U.S. states over the weekend, with all-time records at risk of falling, the National Weather Service said Friday.

Heat dome sends temperatures soaring above 100°F across the U.S. https://www.earth.com/earth-science/heat-dome-sends-temperatures-soaring-above-100f-across-the-u-s/

Heat dome sends temperatures soaring above 100°F across the U.S.
A powerful September heat dome sent temperatures soaring across the south-central U.S., placing more than 41 million people under extreme heat alerts.

Pure idiocracy..
‘Do you have to be dead?’: US coalminers plead for benefits as black-lung disease cases surge https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/us-coalminers-black-lung-disease

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals https://phys.org/news/2026-08-hazardous-sites-facilities-toxic-chemicals.html

Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals
While parks, playgrounds and hiking trails are generally thought of as "healthy" spaces, researchers from the University of Michigan have found that many of them overlap with old toxic waste sites or sit dangerously close to facilities that actively release hazardous chemicals. Their new study, published in Scientific Reports, looks at the proximity of 151,366 U.S. public parks to facilities in the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund sites (SFS).