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FEMA to send states $608 million to build migrant detention centers
FEMA is starting a âdetention support grant programâ to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency annou

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Today, the Board of the State Coastal Conservancy approved grants totaling over $113 million for coastal restoration, protection, public access and climate resilience. The 47 projects awarded today include funding to acquire approximately 52 acres at Point Molate in the City of Richmond to create a regional shoreline park, to construct of 1.71 miles of the Santa Ana River Trail in Riverside County, and for nine Coastal Stories projects that will create storytelling installations, murals, and other interpretive materials that represent diverse communitiesâ perspectives that historically have been excluded from narratives of Californiaâs coast and publicly accessible land. The funding awarded today will help to acquire over 1,100 acres of land for conservation and public use and restore over 650 acres.
The plans, created to protect federal assets from climate change and save money, remain online. It's unclear what Trump will do with them.
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Deep in the bowels of .gov web addresses sits a site that houses the climate adaptation plans for more than two dozen federal agencies. They outline everything from the Smithsonian protecting the National Museum of American History from flooding to the Department of Defense âincorporat[ing] climate considerations into wargames.â
The fact that these documents remain available â including on the recently updated Environmental Protection Agency site â stands in stark contrast to President Donald Trumpâs broader purge of climate-related programming from the federal government. Even the rest of the sustainability.gov website where they reside has largely been wiped clean since Trumpâs inauguration.
âI donât know if leaving [them] up was intentional,â said Elizabeth Losos, an executive in residence at Duke University, who provided technical support for the plans. She said it could be an oversight and the plans will be taken down eventually. Or it could be a sign that some within the administration want to tackle issues related to natural disaster and climate preparedness.
âThere are folks there who know that if you screw this up too much it comes back and bites you,â Losos said. She also said she believes that âthey arenât nearly as hostile to climate adaptation and resiliency as they are climate mitigation.â
The White House did not respond to multiple requests for comment, including one sent to the Council on Environmental Quality, which spearheaded the plans. Grist also reached out to all 30 government entities that produced the documents. Only a handful responded, though they avoided referencing âclimate change.â
âThe [State] Department will continue to plan for and seek to mitigate disruptions to its critical operations from a range of possible disruptions, including natural hazards,â said one agency spokesperson in an email. Another wrote that the âEPA takes very seriously how natural hazards and disasters can affect human health and the environment.â Neither agency responded to follow up questions.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned electric utility, directly addressed the future of its plan, confirming that âno changes to the current plan have been identified.â Press secretary Charlotte Taylor dismissed questions about the Department of Interiorâs plan by email, writing, âA leftist blogâs interpretation of the federal governmentâs actions is not a matter of concern.âÂ
The city's goal is a 50-per cent reduction by 2030, but under a "best-case scenario" Vancouver would still fall short, hitting a 40-per cent
Nearly five years after the City of Vancouver declared a climate emergency, projections show the municipality falling short of its climate target. The update came in an annual report on the cityâs efforts to tackle climate change presented to council on Wednesday. âItâs obviously not a problem Vancouver is going to be solving alone, itâs a global problem that demands a global solution, but we do have an important role in that,â said Matt Horne, the cityâs manager of climate mitigation.
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The lead author of a new study on the important role wild plants play in food crop diversity and climate mitigation calls for greater conservation efforts.
The wild plants that grow along our roadsides and ditchesâlike the salt-tolerant wild sunflowers and disease-resistant wild pumpkinsâmay hold crucial traits that can protect our food supply. Breeding commercial food crops using their wild relatives can help those crops become more pest and disease-resistant and resilient in the face of climate change. But according to a new study, many of the âcrop wild relativesâ are endangered in their natural habitats and in dire need of conservation.

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I had a wonderful time in Vienna with the crew from Gartenpolylog. It started with a berry planting session at a fabulous garden in front of some new apartment buildings where green space and community growing has been incorporated into the design. Well done to the developers for recognising the importance of including such important green spaces into their plans.
I then went on to visit a couple of fabulous gardens the following day. One on an old coal train line and the other was a very large garden by Australian standards who were celebrating their 10 year anniversary. I donât think Iâve ever seen so many people having so much fun in a community garden before! It was a wonderful celebration which I was honoured to be invited to. Thank you to both gardens for inviting me.
The guys at Gartenpolylog do a great job of supporting community gardens in Austria although once again I find that they lack the government recognition of the importance of community growing. This obviously frustrates their efforts somewhat but doesnât stop them! And everyone is keen to link up ongoing internationally. I truly hope that this helps to give us all and the work we do a stronger voice. If only all governments could be as supportive as those of Wales and Singapore. So far they are the only ones worth mentioning which is a pity.
Hope in a Changing Climate Youtube
by John D Liu
This film was first broadcast on the BBC World in 2009 the day before the Copenhagen COP 15 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses a viable solution to human induced climate change. Nothing in the years since it was first broadcast has changed this. It is more important now than when it was first broadcast. The Sponsorship was arrange by IUCN and the financial sponsors had no input in the content and did not see the film until it was broadcast. Â Â
âIf people were the problem, they could also be the solution.â
Dear Friends: Here is a link to an article about a design for a new project in the Sinai Peninsula. Â In many ways this project represents some of the highest potential for ecological restoration. The Article published in the Kosmos Journal Summer 2019 issue discusses events over 3 years of a collaborative inquiry to understand how the massive desertification in North Africa and the middle east took place and how to restore it. https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/the-holy-grail-of-restoration/
Rising seas give Marshall Island nationals a stark choice: relocate or elevate
Climate change means the low-lying Marshall Islands must consider drastic measures, including building new artificial islands.
BYÂ JON LETMAN
The navigational prowess of Marshall Islanders is legendary. For thousands of years, Marshallese have embraced their watery environment, building a culture on more than 1,200 islands scattered across 750,000 square miles of ocean.
But powerful tropical cyclones, damaged reefs and fisheries, worsening droughts, and sea-level rise threaten the coral reef atolls of this large ocean state, forcing the Marshallese to navigate a new reality.
In a moment of reckoning, Marshall Islanders face a stark choice: relocate or elevate. One idea being considered is the construction of a new island or raising an existing one.
With 600 billion tons of melting iceflowing into oceans that are absorbing heat twice as fast as 18 years ago, the Marshallese will need to move fast.
A report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in October highlighted different projected outcomes from a temperature rise of 1.5°C versus 2°C.
In the report, small-island developing states are identified as being at disproportionately higher risk of adverse consequences of global warming. Among them, four atoll nations:Â Kiribati, Tuvalu, the Maldives, and the Marshall Islands, are at greatest risk.
According to IPCC statistics, global temperatures could exceed a 3°C above pre-industrial temperature increase by 2100 with global-mean sea level rise projected between one and four feet or higher. Absent extraordinary measures, climate change could render the Marshall Islands uninhabitable.