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Georgias nearly 370,000 acres of salt marshes are in danger, due to rising sea levels and levels of development that conservation groups say are unsustainable. But an effort is underway across the southeast to try to save them. The South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative has released a new plan to preserve one million acres of salt marshes from North Carolina to East Central Florida, an area nearly the size of the Grand Canyon. ...

Cyclone Biparjoy has picked up speed after re-curving and is now lying very close to the coast of Gujarat.It is likely to make landfall by the evening on Thursday, Mahesh Palawat, Vice President, Meteorology and Climate Change, Skymet Weather, ...

Sealing driveways and parking lots may seem like routine maintenance for homeowners, but recent studies raise concerns about the potential health risks associated with some of the materials. Coal-tar sealants have been used for decades on driveways and parking lots. They include a class of compounds known as Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. ...

Nearly a year after the historic flooding in eastern Kentucky residents of Breathitt, Knott, Letcher, and Perry counties now have the option to participate in buyouts for homes and properties located on flood-prone land. Officials say they estimate around 3000 residents in the region are eligible. Tony Nott - assistant state conservationist with the U.S. ...

Canadian wildfire smoke has impact on humans and animals Fire

By Elizabeth Hewitt for Reasons to be Cheerful.Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Minnesota News Connection reporting for the Solutions Journalism Network-Public News Service Collaboration Amid black-eyed Susans and purple wildflowers growing between rows of solar panels at Connexus Energy’s headquarters in Ramsey, Minnesota, Rob Davis has seen hover flies, swallows and a hummingbird moth. “It’s just like being in a nice, natural place,” says Davis, Conne...

As smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets New York and much of the East Coast, its causing a wide range of health effects - and not just for people. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the effects can be as minor as eye and respiratory-tract irritation, but worsening to asthma and even causing heart failure. And humans arent the only ones feeling the effects of smoky skies - wildlife is compromised through loss of habitat, food and water sources. ...

Cyclone Biparjoy looming over the Arabian Sea has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm, which may hinder the monsoon onset over Kerala, according to meteorologists. The India Meteorological Department said on June 9 that favourable conditions exist for the monsoon onset within two days., India News, Times Now

Cyclone Biparjoy, the first storm brewing in the Arabian Sea this year, rapidly intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm with meteorologists predicting a mild monsoon onset over Kerala and weak progress beyond the southern peninsula under its influence.

Meteorologists, however, said the cyclone has been impacting the intensity of the monsoon and the onset over Kerala would be "mild".