Climate

The project broke ground on Earth Day in 2022, at the only location in the region with enough protected land on both sides.

The effort to build a wildlife crossing began in earnest, and Ms. Pratt became a chief wrangler of the sprawling, multiagency, public-private effort.

The disappearance of mountain lions from ecosystems contributed to an overpopulation of deer and other prey animals, leading to overgrazing and erosion.

Climate change is exacting a toll as it intensifies wildfire and forces the cats to find new habitat on landscapes where humans are taking up more and more space.

Mountain lions are thought to have the largest range of any mammal in the Western Hemisphere.

They’re found from Canada to around the southern tip of South America, and historically, from east to west coasts.

Dwindling habitat is forcing the animals closer to humans.

California’s highways hem in populations, isolating them from each other.

While Mississippians have expressed concern over noise and potential air pollution from the turbines, the number of turbines have increased.

In Warren County, a Black community said, “We don’t want dumping in our community.”

If the tech companies are advised to build in places with existing infrastructure, that is just going to deepen the environmental and climate concerns.

Curtailing the turbines, which emit nitrogen oxide into a community already dealing with high levels of pollution, was a victory for the NAACP and Abre’ Conner.

The NAACP has understood that environmental and climate justice issues are racial justice issues.

A lot of this industrial build-out tends to be concentrated in particular places.

The Park Service dismantled a plaque about climate change at the Muir Woods National Monument in California.

That includes more sustained drought more extreme rainfall and flooding and fiercer wildfires like the ones that tore through Los Angeles last year.

“We continue to see that there will be major impacts and many of those are starting already,” Dr. Swann said.

That level of warming could still have disastrous consequences, such as the loss of nearly all coral reefs and significant sea level rise that would overwhelm coastal communities.

These gases are released by the combustion of fossil fuels, such as when a car engine burns gasoline or a power plant burns coal.

Lyocell, another type of rayon often branded as Tencel, seems promising because it’s less environmentally impactful, but sheets made from that fiber tend to be more expensive than cotton.