TRI’s Special Edition
for June 21, 2019
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Climate Risks in the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community.
Climate and Security. For the third time during the current U.S. Administration, climate change was included in the annual 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community…
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Mississippi residents flooded out for four months say the EPA could save them but won’t.
NBC News. he chest-deep water currently surrounding Stormy Deere’s house is expected to remain there until at least July. The home she lives in with her husband is safely elevated on a mound of dirt and brick, but she has had to take a boat to reach it since early March.
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For some Mississippi River cities, there are only 2 choices.
NOLA.com. In early July 2014, the Mississippi flooded downtown Davenport, turning its minor league baseball stadium into an island. It happened at a particularly bad time: just before a three-game Independence Day weekend series against upriver rivals from Wisconsin.
Mississippi River Flooding
- The River’s Revenge: The Mississippi remains critical to our prosperity, but hostile to attempts to control it.
- Creating a waterborne interstate for commerce — How Minneapolis desperately wanted to be the commercial bookend to New Orleans.
- Reshaping the Mississippi is unraveling wildlife habitat.
- Dredging, dams and other river controls starve places downriver of much-needed sediment.
- Hell Is High Water
Ignite, Engage & Transform!
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