May 19, 2021
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“We’ve had dry springs before, but that is just astonishing,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and The Nature Conservancy. “And we’re still a few months out from seeing the worst of things.”
Distinguished Professor Glen MacDonald, whose research at the University of California Los Angeles’ Department of Geography focuses on water resources and environmental impacts of climate change, said the size of the fires is of particular importance. “We’re not actually seeing a statistically significant increase in the number of fires we’re just seeing that the ones that get going, some of them are much, much bigger,” he told Newsweek. (Also: UCLA’s Stephanie Pincetl was quoted in Popular Science.)
Amanda Taub, The New York Times
Published: 20 May 2021 11:02 AM BdST
Updated: 20 May 2021 11:02 AM BdST Protesters form a road block in Bogota, Colombia, May 10, 2021. Demonstrations have filled the streets of major cities for three weeks and more than 40 people have died, some in clashes with the police. (Federico Rios Escobar/The New York Times)
When the history of this global moment is written, there will need to be an entire chapter on police forces’ spectacular own goals as force for change. );
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Around the world, the police have cracked down violently on protests only to discover that their attacks, captured on camera and shared across social and conventional media, have been the catalyst that helped turn issue-based campaigns into mass movements.